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Art Briles sues Baylor
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:48 am
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:48 am
AP Article
For those absolutely against him, does this put your judgment on hold?
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AUSTIN, Texas — Former Baylor football coach Art Briles is suing three school regents and a vice president for libel and slander, accusing them of falsely stating he knew of reported assaults and alleged gang rapes by players and didn’t report them.
For those absolutely against him, does this put your judgment on hold?
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 8:50 am
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Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:50 am to Number2
If he is found innocent of Baylor's allegations he should be calling plays in Tiger Stadium.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:53 am to Number2
No. It's a pretty obvious money grab/faint attempt to save face and put up an appearance of rectifying his name. Neither side wants any part of discovery or a trial on this matter, so the regents will throw more money at him, things stay swept under a rug and everyone goes home.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:54 am to El Magnifico
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If he is found innocent of Baylor's allegations he should be calling plays in Tiger Stadium.
If by calling plays you mean he is the new HC...
Wasn't Baylor consistently winning and putting up prolific offensive numbers before these allegations derailed everything?
If he proves that he didn't have knowledge (he can't be innocent, this is a civil case, not a criminal case and he is the prosecuting party) shouldn't he be a HC as he was before being accused?
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:55 am to Number2
Briles must be pretty sure there isn't anything linking him to the raping. Considering Baylor paid a multi million dollar buyout, I always assumed they didn't have much on him other than ignoring a few red flags.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:58 am to lsu2006
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things stay swept under a rug and everyone goes home
Everyone goes home, as in, Briles gets hired by someone and he gets back to torching defenses?
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 8:59 am
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:00 am to Number2
if it stays under the rug then bring him to br
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:00 am to Number2
No. As in, neither Baylor nor Briles suffers further damage to their reputations, Briles gets another nice settlement check and probably never coaches again.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:00 am to Number2
Whether guilty or not he has to try this tactic.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:12 am to Number2
Baylor did a lot wrong. They had a want not to be deposed on anything so they gave him $20 million in his wrongful termination lawsuit.
They were absolute morons to say anything about him afterwards. Anything said opens the door to a lawsuit and the depositions that they cannot allow to happen.
He has them by the balls.
That being said, the only two things I could find that he did wrong was bringing in a superstar DE transfer. He was warned by Chris Petersen that the kid was far beyond a bad seed. The kid ultimately raped a girl.
He also was told by the head coach of a female athlete that the girl had been raped ten months before. He asked the coach if it had been reported to judicial compliance and suggested that they get the police involved. He was assured that it had been reported and told that the girl did not want police involvement.
University rules demand that he report it, not ask if it had been reported. While it seems he acted in good faith, he technically violated the rules.
I wonder how much they are going to pay him to go away, thereby avoiding depositions? They will not be deposed.
They were absolute morons to say anything about him afterwards. Anything said opens the door to a lawsuit and the depositions that they cannot allow to happen.
He has them by the balls.
That being said, the only two things I could find that he did wrong was bringing in a superstar DE transfer. He was warned by Chris Petersen that the kid was far beyond a bad seed. The kid ultimately raped a girl.
He also was told by the head coach of a female athlete that the girl had been raped ten months before. He asked the coach if it had been reported to judicial compliance and suggested that they get the police involved. He was assured that it had been reported and told that the girl did not want police involvement.
University rules demand that he report it, not ask if it had been reported. While it seems he acted in good faith, he technically violated the rules.
I wonder how much they are going to pay him to go away, thereby avoiding depositions? They will not be deposed.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:20 am to El Magnifico
He's basically been seen as guilty before being able to prove himself innocent.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:21 am to El Magnifico
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If he is found innocent of Baylor's allegations he should be calling plays in Tiger Stadium.
He should be doing that regardless.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:31 am to Number2
Gonna be interesting. Baylor and the defendants can and will put Briles on the stand and probe every orifice of his body. Every email. Every text message.
I doubt that it ever sees the light of a courtroom, but if I was Baylor, I wouldn't settle.
I doubt that it ever sees the light of a courtroom, but if I was Baylor, I wouldn't settle.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:40 am to BamaGradinTn
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probe every orifice of his body. Every email. Every text message
This was done already. They found nothing.
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I doubt that it ever sees the light of a courtroom, but if I was Baylor, I wouldn't settle.
Baylor will have to settle. They were absolute cavemen with all of the Title IX stuff. Also with their handling of the reports of the rapes. The AD said he had never been informed for two years, then fessed up that he had been informed.
They absolutely cannot have their actions made public and will do what they need to to keep from discovery.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 9:41 am to Number2
We need an Art Briles board.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:05 am to Hangit
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probe every orifice of his body. Every email. Every text message
This was done already. They found nothing.
Not just university email and texts. Personal as well.
And I'm sorry, but at what point has Briles had to answer anything under oath?
Filing a lawsuit opens you up to a whole other level of exposure.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:09 am to El Magnifico
Merely filing a lawsuit says nothing about his innocence.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:10 am to Hangit
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I doubt that it ever sees the light of a courtroom, but if I was Baylor, I wouldn't settle.
Baylor will have to settle.
Let me rephrase...if I was one of the regents named in the suit. Baylor as an institution wasn't named in the suit. So how Baylor as an institution handled the problem isn't an issue in this case. Individual regents have no responsibility in the day to day administration of the university. The individual regents named didn't cover up anything. I wouldn't settle. I would go through every smidgen of Briles' entire career. I would subpoena every personal email and text message going back to when the first incident happened. And I would put him on the stand, under oath, and do everything possible to absolutely ruin him.
This post was edited on 12/9/16 at 10:12 am
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:14 am to El Magnifico
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If he is found innocent of Baylor's allegations he should be calling plays in Tiger Stadium.
This isn't the issue.
Do you want to go through another lawsuit with another coach?
By suing the regents, Briles has probably ensured that he will never, ever, work at another university again.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 10:23 am to Dizz
Pretty sure Briles was not paid a buyout due to his termination and how it all went down
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