re: Washington Post Mulkey article just dropped

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She later publicly defended Baylor, her former employer, amid a sexual assault scandal in its football program.

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here's the full recount - - instead of a one-liner the WaPoop attempted to frame her with -

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Kim Mulkey, the newly hired coach of LSU women's hoops, defended Baylor in 2017 as it dealt with a massive sexual assault and Title IX scandal. She later retracted the statement and apologized.

"If somebody's around you, and they ever say, 'I will never send my daughter to Baylor,' you knock them right in the face," Mulkey said at center court after earning her 500th win as coach of the Bears.

"Because these kids are on this campus. I work here," she said. "My daughter went to school here, and it's the best damn school in America."
"I'm tired of people talking on it on a national scale that don't know what they're talking about," Mulkey said in a post-game press conference after her initial remarks. "If they didn't sit in those meetings, and they weren't a part of the investigation, you're repeating things that you heard. It's over. It's done."

"This is a great institution," she continued. "The problems that we have at Baylor are no different than the problems at any other school in America. Period. Move on. Find another story to write."

Mulkey walked back her comments the next day.

"I hate that I used the remark about punching them in the face," Mulkey told to espnW. "That was not literal. I was trying to make a point, to be firm in what you are saying back at them. I'm not a violent person. I apologize for the very poor choice of words."

Mulkey said she didn't think before she spoke. Her larger point, she said, was that Baylor shouldn't be "painted with a broad brush."

"Not only do I sympathize with victims," she said. "I am angry about the way victims were treated at this university. It is horrible, horrible anytime someone does not take care of a victim. Even one sexual assault is too many. Nobody is dismissing what happened here. I want us to get to the bottom of it."

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Kim Mulkey is emotional - and says what's on her mind in the heat of the moment - she's Southern - that's not an uncommon thing from my roots/perspective -