The best-known so far is Jim (“In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids.”) Tressel, but in today’s New York Times Joe Nocera identifies a rival for top seed.
[Baylor University president] Ken Starr was as complicit in the two-year-long silence [about a football player/rapist)] as anybody in the Baylor athletic department, which makes his current “anguish” seem like little more than P.R. posturing…
But it’s at moments of crises like this one when people discover how a university, and its president, prioritizes athletics. Baylor, a Baptist school that professes to adhere to Christian principles, appears to have “sheltered” a “perpetrator,” to use Starr’s own words, because this particular perp might be able to help the team win a few games.
September 1st, 2015 at 1:26PM
Well, this is nothing new for Baylor. The institution was perfectly willing to have anti-gay policies on the books, and overlook those policies in the case of its star women’s basketball player.
September 1st, 2015 at 9:09PM
A school that is led by Starr (Ken)
Has players end up in the pen.
But with football as king
for a championship ring
they’d recruit them all over again.
September 1st, 2015 at 9:42PM
Derek: Good one.