Former Baylor head football coach Art Briles, while attending camp for the Houston Texans, made some remarks about his character that will make you scream.
Amid controversies at multiple major college football programs recently and the way they handle off-field issues involving players, no school may have had a worse public relations time than the Baylor Bears.
Amid scathing reports of how the school and its football coaches, including former head coach Art Briles, kept player arrests and issues involving domestic violence and sexual assault hidden, the school is attempting to rebuild its image under new head coach Jim Grobe.
For his part, Briles (who settled with the school on a deal to pay him for going away) still doesn’t think he did anything wrong during his time protecting players who raped females at the Waco, Texas school.
While visiting training camp for the Houston Texans, Briles couldn’t help but speak to the reporters gathered and actually said the following words:
"“I’ve been in it 38 years, and I’ve done, you know, lived the right way for 60 years of my life,” Briles said to reporters, “I’ve never done anything illegal, immoral, unethical.” He also compared football to a lost dog."
That was followed by an analogy that could only come from this real life Bud Kilmer from Varsity Blues:
"“I’m excited about coaching again, I really am, because you know, if you lose your dog, all of a sudden, you’re looking around hollering for him. Just stay up late at night, looking for him. I’ve lost my dog. My dog’s football. I’m ready to go find it again.”"
The scary part: Briles will be a coach at some level, college or pro, during the 2017 season. Programs and teams have made it clear that as long as you can win games, character can be worked out and massaged by team officials.
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In a perfect world, a scumbag like Briles — when the final report comes out — is going to likely be officially condemned for his role in hiding the assaults and letting players play. The NCAA should slap a show cause penalty on him and make Briles toxic to any school considering offering him a job.
We won’t be holding our breaths for that one, so you can expect this embarrassment to coaching to be patrolling a sideline near you next season.