"Silence at Baylor"

[Randolph Duke]

I don't agree with this stuff.

It's the first Saturday of the College football year, College Gameday is there to entertain the fans, thus they brought in Paisley to perform and cameo on the show in Sundance Square. The terrible incident that took place at Baylor has been discussed by ESPN on numerous occasions via Television and Radio. Do I agree with folks turning a blind eye to this woman? Absolutely not. Should College Gameday be expected to discuss it? Absolutely not. Ketch is stirring the pot and it's pointless. All it does is make Texas fans look envious of Baylor's success. 

I'mwondering whether Ketchum actually got arrested yesterday or not. If so, someone has to make anissue of the mounting problems inside the Baylor program, if, for no other reason, for ESPN to maintain its integrity as a journalistic entity.

I fully understand ESPN chooses when it wants to be an entertainment entity and when it wants to be a journalistic entity, but to have knowledge of a program that seems to be lacking institutional control is having players with arrest issues, and then to willingly gloss over the arrest issue, would show a clear bias toward ignoring a glaring problem in college football.

Yes, Baylor's Title IX issue has been reported. The suspension of two players has been reported. If, knowing how much of a spotlight the program is under, the players are still so unconcerned about the consequences that they continue to get arrested, the whole problem at Baylor is still not being reported.

Did or did not Briles have another player arrested yesterday?

 

[BevoBlake]

I'mwondering whether Ketchum actually got arrested yesterday or not. If so, someone has to make anissue of the mounting problems inside the Baylor program, if, for no other reason, for ESPN to maintain its integrity as a journalistic entity.

I fully understand ESPN chooses when it wants to be an entertainment entity and when it wants to be a journalistic entity, but to have knowledge of a program that seems to be lacking institutional control is having players with arrest issues, and then to willingly gloss over the arrest issue, would show a clear bias toward ignoring a glaring problem in college football.

Yes, Baylor's Title IX issue has been reported. The suspension of two players has been reported. If, knowing how much of a spotlight the program is under, the players are still so unconcerned about the consequences that they continue to get arrested, the whole problem at Baylor is still not being reported.

Did or did not Briles have another player arrested yesterday?

Should/Could ESPN run a story on the mounting trouble in the Baylor program? Sure. Should it be during College Gameday? No.

That's not what Gameday is about. That has never been what Gameday is about. Gameday is about "game day". It's about the teams going head to head each Saturday. It's not about the drama revolving a program that won't even be playing that day. 

I'm not one of those people who complain when ESPN reports stories that are "drama-ish" in nature. But with that said, I want my Gameday to be what it always has been. A show that I wake up to in the morning to get myself prepared for the college football excitement that awaits me. Let Sportscenter and ESPN Radio handle all of the other stuff.

But yes, I'm interested to hear about Ketchum as well.

 

[Randolph Duke]

Should/Could ESPN run a story on the mounting trouble in the Baylor program? Sure. Should it be during College Gameday? No.

That's not what Gameday is about. That has never been what Gameday is about. Gameday is about "game day". It's about the teams going head to head each Saturday. It's not about the drama revolving a program that won't even be playing that day. Nothing about Ketchum was mentioned there.

I'm not one of those people who complain when ESPN reports stories that are "drama-ish" in nature. But with that said, I want my Gameday to be what it always has been. A show that I wake up to in the morning to get myself prepared for the college football excitement that awaits me. Let Sportscenter and ESPN Radio handle all of the other stuff.

But yes, I'm interested to hear about Ketchum as well.

They often give news snippets concerning college football and they did discuss injuries from the previous evening. All that aside, the news was out last night, before ESPN broadcast the Baylor game where the suspensions and the rape conviction were mentioned.
I get not wanting to pile on, but report the story if it is breaking. Gameday is getting to be a bit too much of the Katy Perry and "I was a Polish orphan" fluff.

If Baylor were unranked, it would be one thing, but breaking news about a top 5 program deserves a mention.

 

[lshorn79]

Ex-student files Title IX lawsuit against Baylor over alleged sexual assault
The lawsuit said McCraw told Roe that she was “the sixth female student to come in to McCraw’s office to report that they had been sexually         assaulted by Elliott.†The suit further stated that Baylor coach Art Briles â€œwas aware of the reports.â€

According to the suit, McCraw allegedly told Roe that there was “nothing the school could do for Roe unless there was a court determination that Elliott had indeed raped Roe. Otherwise McCraw said it would come down to a ‘he said-she said’ situation, and the school could not act on it.â€

The lawsuit stated that Hernandez enrolled at Baylor in the fall 2011 and that on April 15, 2012, she was attending a party at a residence near campus. The suit says Elliott invited Hernandez and her friends to the party as he knew one of the friends.

The lawsuit stated that at one point in the evening, Hernandez became separated from her friends and that Elliott grabbed her by the wrist and led her outside. The suit states that as Hernandez continued to protest, the player picked her up over his shoulder and carried her behind a secluded shack on the property.

According to the lawsuit, one behind the shack, “Elliott pushed Hernandez up against an embankment, ripped off her pants and began to rape her.†The suit says Hernandez began to pull her pants back up and Elliott grabbed her again, pulled her pants back down and raped her again.

Hernandez went back into the party and told her friends what had happened and they took her to a nearby hospital so a rape kit could be performed, according to the suit. The suit said Hernandez also gave an account of what happened to a Waco Police officer.

The lawsuit says Hernandez’s mother arrived to help the next day and was turned away for help by: the Baylor Counseling Center, the psychology department at Baylor’s Student Health Center, and Baylor’s Academic Services Department which allegedly told the mother, ‘If a plane falls on your daughter, there’s nothing we can do to help you.

According to the suit, Hernandez’s mother and father both contacted Briles’ office multiple times to follow-up on the incident. The suit said the mother received a call saying the coach was looking into it and the father never received a return phone call.

The suit said despite Hernandez’s report to several administrative offices, “Baylor did not take any action whatsoever to investigate Hernandez’s claims."

The suit accuses Baylor of multiple failures to comply with federal law, Title IX, and that the school acted “with deliberate indifference towards Hernandez’s reports of rape to several different Baylor departments as reflected by Defendants’ actions and inaction alleged herein.â€

The lawsuit also alleged that a former member of Baylor’s advisory board that “reviewed sexual assault response issues with community leaders has publicly stated that Baylor officials have known abou the larger problem of sexual assaults committed by student-athletes for years.†The suit said the former member is a nurse who “has estimated that despite only making up 4% of the student population at Baylor, male student-athletes are responsible for 25% to 50% of all reported assaults that occur at Baylor.â€

Baylor had another player convicted of sexual assault last year. Defensive end Sam Ukwuachu was convicted of sexually assaulting a Baylor student following a football game against Iowa State in 2013. The victim in that case reached a settlement with the university late in 2015.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2016/03/31/baylor-lawsuit-title-ix-violations-sexual-assault/82477558/

 

[dillohorn]

Baylor should just slink away into oblivion.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/baylor-avoided-drug-testing-athletes-according-to-new-book/article_473d24d7-543e-5708-ab4a-e55748696541.html

WOW.

Baylor avoided drug testing athletes, according to new book

Baylor University student-athletes did not undergo random drug tests before 2016, according to a new book by ESPN reporters Paula Lavigne and Mark Schlabach.

Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP uncovered the issue during its nine-month investigation into the handling of sexual violence allegations at Baylor.

Student-athletes were shielded from tests because the school’s policy against marijuana use called for a semester-long suspension at the first reported incident and possible expulsion for the second.

A Baylor regent told the authors that the lack of tests attracted recruits who wanted to smoke marijuana and contributed to the program’s problems of “getting bad guys.†The unofficial policy also kept players from getting help.

In contrast, 99 percent of the 56 Football Bowl Subdivision programs test their football players for marijuana and cocaine, according to a 2011 Associated Press study.

“What was really happening was the underlying message to them is, ‘Hey, the rules don’t apply to you,’ †a regent quoted in the book said. “You know, and they have been hearing that since the seventh grade anyway. Some rules do apply to everybody, and telling them they don’t apply is not calculated to make them productive citizens.â€

Former football players Aaron Jones, Chris McAllister and Chris Winkler disputed the claims through Twitter on Monday. Each recalled undergoing drug tests.

The NCAA and the Big 12 performed random tests before 2016 and continues to do so.

Baylor’s current policy, enacted last year, calls for a six-month probation for a first positive marijuana test. It calls for a year of probation and 33 percent competition ban for a second positive, a year of probation and ban for a third positive, and dismissal for a fourth positive test.

Mandatory drug testing and education programming ensures Baylor exceeds Big 12 Conference and NCAA standards, according to the university.

Baylor will open an on-campus addiction recovery center for students this fall.

The book, titled “Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football’s Sexual Assault Crisis,†became available Tuesday.