Football and Title IX Bring Baylor to its Knees

[snoscythe]

Baylor has fired both its president, Ken Starr (ironically best known as the moral-crusader who impeached Clinton) and its Messianic football coach, Art Briles today after an investigation into the university's and football program's protocol/response to sexual abuse and violence reporting under Title IX.

It's stunning, it's just the beginning, and it makes me very apprehensive as to where things are going for BYU and its own Title IX issues. Notably, the one rape accusation that was reported by a police officer to the Honor Code office was reported because the deputy wanted to make sure BYU football players were held accountable.

As a Baylor fan and a BYU fan, this all has me very queasy.

[Fido]

http://a.espncdn.com/pdf/2016/0526/Bayl ... OfFact.pdf
Pepper found that Baylor’s efforts to implement Title IX were slow, ad
hoc, and hindered by a lack of institutional support and engagement by senior leadership. Based on a high-level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012-2013 through 2014-2015, Pepper found that the University’s student conduct
processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a
potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community. Pepper also found examples of actions by University administrators that directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes, or that contributed to or accommodated a hostile environment. In one instance, those actions constituted retaliation against a complainant for reporting sexual assault. In addition to broader University failings, Pepper found specific failings within both the
football program and Athletics Department leadership, including a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player, to take action in response to reports of a sexual assault by multiple football players, and to take action in response to a report of dating violence. Pepper’s findings also reflect significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor’s football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of athlete misconduct.

Also from ESPN:
Baylor officials said in a news release that the school had hired a New York law firm to make contact with the NCAA about potential rules violations.

I don't think BYU is anywhere near where Baylor is.

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[hawkwing]

In a year or two it will be a Title IX requirement that men and women can share locker rooms and then BYU will be in serious trouble.

[Commoner]

The culture that fostered a university-wide, systemic under-reporting, ignoring, cajoling or otherwise discouraging the reports of rapes/sexual abuses is what led to today's development.

The days when the "good ole boy network" is able to hush things up because "boys will be boys" and it might be embarrassing for the school, are coming to an end.

BYU is nowhere near the level that existed at Baylor.

[byufan4ever]

In a year or two it will be a Title IX requirement that men and women can share locker rooms and then BYU will be in serious trouble.

Seriously would not surprise me...

[frdbtr]

In a year or two it will be a Title IX requirement that men and women can share locker rooms and then BYU will be in serious trouble.

If/when that happens, BYU will just cancel the sports programs.

[hawkwing]

In a year or two it will be a Title IX requirement that men and women can share locker rooms and then BYU will be in serious trouble.

If/when that happens, BYU will just cancel the sports programs.

And people wonder why BYU is not a serious contender for P5 expansion. That's it right there. They aren't idiots, they know BYU sports will not be around much longer.

[Mars]

Reportedly, BYU has had over 50 rapes over the past decade or so. That's not good either.

[mormonrasta]

Reportedly, BYU has had over 50 rapes over the past decade or so. That's not good either.

It's not good at all. However, it seems to be a lot lower than places like USC, Michigan, Harvard, Cal and Virginia.

http://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/crime/c ... lleges/10/

[frdbtr]

In a year or two it will be a Title IX requirement that men and women can share locker rooms and then BYU will be in serious trouble.

If/when that happens, BYU will just cancel the sports programs.

And people wonder why BYU is not a serious contender for P5 expansion. That's it right there. They aren't idiots, they know BYU sports will not be around much longer.

I don't think that any of the schools in the Big12 are against adding BYU because they think BYU will cancel the sports programs any time soon. I was just talking Reality. If the world decides to try to force BYU to do something against the principles of the Gospel in order to keep the sports programs, BYU will simply cancel the sports programs. BYU will never compromise Gospel principles in order to appease the world and keep a sports program around. But like I said above, I would be shocked if that reality was on anyone's mind in the sporting world.