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Art Briles’ daughter sounds off on the whole situation

By John Buhler

Jan 1, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Baylor Bears head coach Art Briles before the game against the Michigan State Spartans in the 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 1, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Baylor Bears head coach Art Briles before the game against the Michigan State Spartans in the 2015 Cotton Bowl Classic at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /
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Art Briles’ daughter Staley Lebby took to Twitter to surmise her feelings about her father’s firing from Baylor amidst a sexual assault scandal at Baylor.

Baylor University fired their successful head football coach Art Briles on Thursday amidst the coverup of a campus-wide sexual assault scandal going on for at least the last two years in Waco.

Briles’ daughter Staley Lebby, who is also married to the Baylor Bears passing game coordinator Jeff Lebby, took to Twitter on Thursday evening to voice her opinion on all the events that have transpired from her father’s swift firing.

What the Pepper Hamilton report revealed was massively disturbing, with the university covering up widespread sexual assault involving football players and female students. Obviously Lebby is beyond upset that Briles’ tenure at Baylor has come to an end, but it’s not really defensible to keep Briles in Baylor and some of what she wrote is a bit silly.

She called the investigation of sexual assault allegations a “media witch hunt.” Keep in mind the whole reason for this investigation is that the local media, the local police, and the university itself just wanted to keep this whole thing quiet. When female students are instructed not to report cases of sexual assault and are actually reprimanded for it, that’s despicable.

It doesn’t matter that Briles built a top 10 program in the country, what went down in Waco was unjustifiable. Asking for prayers when you’re only sad that your program got caught with a hand in the cookie jar is juvenile.

It’s just sad that nobody wants to take responsibility for culture that was allowed to fester in Waco not even two decades since the disturbing incident with men’s basketball team. It doesn’t matter if Briles is the fall guy or re-assigned president Ken Starr is under intense scrutiny. Baylor needs to clean house, as the university clearly didn’t learn anything from its previous scandal last decade.

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