OTL: Art Briles' Rape Factory and Baylor's Reluctance to End It

[burnie1105]

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_...-adequately-providing-support-alleged-victims

The money quotes:

"Baylor has more sexual assault cases -- that we do exams on -- compared to the other schools with the same approximate population," she said, in reference to two other colleges in Waco. She said she sees about eight Baylor students a year, and of those, she said Baylor athletes make up between 25 percent to 50 percent of the alleged perpetrators. (Male athletes are 4 percent of the undergraduate male population at Baylor.) Most women refuse to report such incidents to authorities, she said.



Elliott played nine of 13 games that season. Outside the Lines spoke to Elliott, who is serving a 20-year sentence at a prison in West Texas, and he said that none of his coaches mentioned the incident to him, and he received no punishment. "I don't even know if they knew," he said. "I just kept playing ball, kept going to school."​

 

[raleighpanther]

This is bad; coaches aren't even talking to players about the incidents. But...
Is that better or worse than telling your all of your players that you personally saw a video of four of your players raping an unconscious woman, talking about how disgusting it was, and then later saying it was all a big fat lie, that you never saw the video, likely to evade questions about what made the video disappear? [For those unaware, that is exactly what Franklin did.]

 

[9nationalchampionships]

So Baylor has been Penn Stating? Expose those that covered up and put them in jail!

 

[Pittx9]

Their basketball team covered up a murder involving a player killing another player. Their football team brushes rape allegations under the rug. What a shameful athletics program they have down there.

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

Their basketball team covered up a murder involving a player killing another player. Their football team brushes rape allegations under the rug. What a shameful athletics program they have down there.

At a school that touts its Baptist affiliation, no less.

 

[deepelemblues]

This is bad; coaches aren't even talking to players about the incidents. But...
Is that better or worse than telling your all of your players that you personally saw a video of four of your players raping an unconscious woman, talking about how disgusting it was, and then later saying it was all a big fat lie, that you never saw the video, likely to evade questions about what made the video disappear? [For those unaware, that is exactly what Franklin did.]

that's the kind of behavior where i don't make distinctions, they're both so far beyond the pale. turning a blind eye to rape and lying about rape to make yourself look better are equally bad to me. in both cases you're doing further injury to the victims and making it more likely there will be future victims. if i were inclined to rape and playing for a franklin team i'd think this guy doesn't care past making himself look good for the media and if i were inclined to rape and playing for a briles team i'd think this guy doesn't care period.

 

[OriginalEther]

At a school that touts its Baptist affiliation, no less.

Actually, I'd say between that and being in Texas, that's par for the course.