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Yikes: The New York Times has just published a LONG piece on Baylor University.

UD‘s reading it now.

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Well, ol’ UD will already take issue with the article’s sub headline, which has it that alumni and the “authorities” are really angry about Raping Football Players and the Men Who Love Them… But really, given the culture of Baylor (as amply represented by its departing sports ministry guy), are we supposed to buy that? Women are weak vessels and if they find themselves in an unpleasant spot with a man it’s because they forgot their burqa and their Bible. Boys will be boys.

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[One of many lawsuits against the school makes] the startling claim that at least 52 rapes by at least 31 players had occurred from 2011 through 2014 — a period when the once-hapless Baylor football program became a dominant force in the highly competitive Big 12 Conference.

Hey. Price of doing business.

Who can blame Baylor for believing that Baptist Propriety for Women would mean the weak vessels would confess their shame to the sports minister and then shut up about it?

Who can blame Baylor for knowing that you want the most aggressive person you can find for your football team?

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“Success in athletics means that all cocks rise,” Kenneth W. Starr, then the university’s president, told The Times in 2014.

Haha. I mean “boats.” He said success in athletics means that all boats rise.

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Some women on campus will of course gladly sacrifice their virtue for the sake of the team. It is their sacred honor to pleasure recruits. One lawsuit claims

“attractive female students” in the Bruins [a “hostess” program] were expected to ensure that recruits had a good time on campus by, for example, engaging “in sexual acts with the recruits to help secure the recruits’ commitment to Baylor.”

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So. Wait now for the academic scandal… Now that the door’s been opened on Baylor University, wait for details about what professors at Baylor were doing (are doing) to keep some players academically eligible.

Margaret Soltan, March 9, 2017 9:44AM
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3 Responses to “Yikes: The New York Times has just published a LONG piece on Baylor University.”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    I have heard the “success in athletics” shtick here for decades from a variety of presidential types–e.g., The Caudillo, the Banana Slug, the PC Eunuch–and the boats have continued to sink, with the exception of the SS Athletics Deficit and the SS Total Number of Administrators, both of which exhibit remarkable buoyancy.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: Excellent use of the Extended Metaphor.

  3. Mr Punch Says:

    Baylor, I suspect, is emulating Louisville (!) — they’re in a shaky conference (as UL was in the Big East) and are going all out to be highly ranked in football and basketball so as to be perceived as an asset for another power conference if the Big 12 collapses.

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