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UD loves this shit.

Oh yes, Art Briles is a fine man, unfairly reviled as the football coach who with apparent indifference presided over the Baylor University football scandal…

This big ol’ Texas newspaper article spends not one moment asking the real question: Why did Art Briles recruit/retain eight people who turned out to be alleged gang rapists? We’re supposed to be impressed because after the accusation of gang rape “four of the accused players [were] removed from the team.” Why were they on the team in the first place, putting all Baylor students at risk? Why doesn’t the reporter – eager to absolve Briles of wrongdoing – mention his comment, in a text message, in response to the initial report of the gang rape?

“Those are some bad dudes. Why was she around those guys?”

It wasn’t Briles’s responsibility to avoid a situation where a significant chunk of his football team was made up of “bad dudes.” It was the raped student’s responsibility to understand that Briles recruited bad dudes and to stay out of their way.

No, nothing at all in the article about this:

“The football program was a black hole into which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared,” [a] court filing said.

Not a word about any of that in the article.

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And that’s how you rehabilitate the morally despicable. If you’re Texas.

Margaret Soltan, June 29, 2018 9:06AM
Posted in: sport

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