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Frayed Knot May 27 2016 12:33 PM

While plenty of folks are going to focus on the presence and the irony of the formerly moral crusader Ken Starr as a lead player in this drama, and the ESPN crowd is of course going to obsess over who's going to be the replacement head football coach, it would be nice if someone would ask in a public forum why the University (or the NCAA if their actual purpose wasn't just to print money) should allow Baylor to even field a football team after all the shit that's gone down on campus and in Waco involving the athletic department in recent years.

Lefty Specialist May 27 2016 04:26 PM Re: Baylor

Ashie62 May 27 2016 07:21 PM Re: Baylor

Sexual abuse at the D! level seems to have been covered up at many institutions and sadly may be epidemic in nature. Pro kollege sports. If I am looking to blame I am looking at the NCAA Ole Miss penalized itself scholarships today. Rutgers is having these issues also now, There were few if any before entry to the big 10. My sister in law teaches at Rutgers and had trouble get $50 for pencils. Egads.

Frayed Knot May 27 2016 08:00 PM Re: Baylor Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 28 2016 07:01 AM

Lefty Specialist wrote: [fimg=200]https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AK740_ICONS__P_20130607164046.jpg[/fimg] Oh I certainly know why things aren't going to change, I'd just like to hear someone actually call for a change instead of just passing it off as business as usual and saying 'well ain't it a shame'. Someone to suggest out loud that maybe NOT having a football program is better than having one which imports, harbors, and abets felons in the vicinity of your teenage children and instead uses their authority to pressure the victims of these crimes into silence and the surrounding town into complacency. But the NCAA is corrupt, the schools themselves too dependent on the revenue, and the main media outlet that covers college sports [the four-letter network] essentially runs college sports so they're too invested to do anything but cheerlead the status quo. Maybe change will have to come from outside. Washington Post columnist Charles Lane recently penned a piece calling for the abolishment of the Olympics due to the rampant corruption and the way it bolsters those in power in totalitarian states, and I don't see the NCAA in any better light than the likes of either the IOC or FIFA.

Edgy MD May 27 2016 08:35 PM Re: Baylor

It's also true that the end-game of many investigations is the resignation or ouster of the biggest-name target they can get, rather than the reforms or philosophical conversations that will actually change the culture.

Frayed Knot May 28 2016 06:58 AM Re: Baylor

Yup! They change the actors on stage (a few of them anyway) and declare the problem solved without ever admitting, or even entertaining the idea, that the writer, producer, director, and indeed the play itself, all stink.

Vic Sage Jun 02 2016 09:47 AM Re: Baylor

no need to go after playwrights, FK.

Frayed Knot Jun 02 2016 10:05 AM Re: Baylor

Yes I do, they're all a bunch of communists! Everybody knows that. Starr resigned yesterday as Baylor Chancellor. Previously he had resigned as President but was kept on as Chancellor. (that'll show 'em!) Now he's neither, although is still a law professor. Whether that is still is good idea is a whole separate argument, but at least he can't enable or ignore a renegade athletic program too much from the law department. Meanwhile, in his own defense, Starr has been yapping about how he was kept out of the loop on the recent matters involving the coach, the violence, the cover-ups, who knew what, etc. And while that sounds like a lame excuse (and may very well be one) it actually might not be. For all the talk about how college Presidents need to take charge whenever discussions of how to "fix" college sports (temporarily) pop up, that position has devolved into nothing more than a glorified fundraising chairman in many cases and he/she doesn't have any more control over the football team than they would over the English department, which is to say virtually none.

Edgy MD Jun 02 2016 10:45 AM Re: Baylor

Yabbut... VINDICATION!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jun 05 2016 11:42 PM Re: Baylor

FoxSports' Katie Nolan*, with a demiSwiftian solution. [youtube]yj-27FnGskY[/youtube] *She's generally great.

Vic Sage Jun 06 2016 09:25 AM Re: Baylor

I like it! of course, the teams would find a way to abuse THAT process, too.