Ongoing Baylor controversy/discussion thread

Headed towards scapegoating Starr which, while in some ways enjoyable, largely evades the primary culprits. Complicity must include Briles, AD, Title IX office, BOR (collectively and as a group), Campus PD and Waco PD. We'll see how effective they are at keeping the wagons circled.

BTW, State of Texas AG is Ken Paxton, BU grad. Hence, the reason you see no effort of looking into PD involvement.

Rodo

We will not fire our Moses. not the actual quote)

I can't believe that was even said. That is some kind of idiotic.

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Headed towards scapegoating Starr...

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That's a pessimistic view (that may end up being correct). The flipside of that is they want the new president to show some balls and clean house. We'll see.

FWIW I have a couple of BU/FB friends who are fed up and calling for mass firings. So they aren't what some here would like to believe.

The people responsible and who need to be fired are in the title 9 department and administration.

Starr was intentionally kept out of the loop because they knew he would not go along. But firing nameless administrators isn't going to satiate the call for blood from austin and ft worth. Every single person calling for Starr to be fired and/or saying he is scum is ignorant. I would hope an Aggie board would be populated with people who know how to ignore Chip Brown for the agenda driven scumbag he is.

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Starr was intentionally kept out of the loop because they knew he would not go along.

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The one guy in all this that I absolutely know isn't blameless is Starr. He's at the top and many people below him were complicit.

Your assumption doesn't make him evil, it makes him incompetent. He's gotta go either way

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Starr was intentionally kept out of the loop because they knew he would not go along

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so he was just incompetent?

this happens all the time in business and government, it's really easy to just say he should have known and he didn't so he is incompetent. how exactly is someone supposed to protect themselves against this? to seek out information that one not only doesn't know, but doesn't know exists?

But fine, if that's the burden of responsibility you place on leadership then I can't argue with your deduction. However, I disagree with your premise, so I disagree with your conclusion.

Starr is the guy who refused to give Josh Gordon another chance, he got kicked out for nothing but weed. How can someone believe Starr would kick out a kid for weed and then choose to cover up and protect sexual predators? It's absurd.

That's my point. the media heat is out for blood of important people, regardless of whether or not they should be. If Baylor cleans out a bunch of mid level administrators but not Starr and Briles, and the media does keep going, BU's response, assuming their original action was in good faith, should be to go on the PR attack.

the people going after Baylor right now are more interested in damaging Baylor than they are in seeing justice.

This situation has involved numerous victims over a long period of time. Claiming "you didn't know" wont work.

Rodo

the overzealous media who have failed to report in an unbiased manner. This is presuming no damning evidence comes out that justifies the pursuit of Starr.

LINK btw, not something I would expect a guilty man to request. The report completely exonerates him. There are people on Baylor's regent board who dislike Starr because he refuses to be their puppet, typical executive board power struggle crap, If they are willing to damage his reputation by falsely blaming him for this stuff Then I have no respect for those board members.