Art Briles denies cover-up in Baylor football scandal
By John Buhler
Former Baylor Bears head football coach Art Briles denies that he covered up information about the sexual assault scandal emanating from his former team.
The Texas Rangers are taking a hard look in their investigation of the sexual assault scandal associated with the Baylor Bears football program. On Thursday, a letter surfaced written by former Bears head coach Art Briles.
In that letter, Briles denied any wrongdoing or any attempts at a cover-up with the rampant sexual assault allegations associated with his former football program. Briles was fired by Baylor before the 2016 NCAA season. Jim Grobe served as the interim head coach that season. Former Temple Owls head coach Matt Rhule will begin his first season with the program this fall.
Briles letter not only denies responsibility for the program’s behavior but in turn points the finger back at the media for routinely getting it wrong. His letter, via kwtx.com begins, “Let me be clear. I did not cover up sexual violence….I did not obstruct justice on campus or off.”
Briles writes midway through the letter, “Despite the insistence of certain people, I can remain silent no longer. There is an onslaught of information coming out in the press that is inaccurate, misleading, and unfair to Baylor…”
Denying knowledge of on-going sexual violence and a subsequent cover-up doesn’t land well. It’s obvious that Briles is desperately trying to hold on to any last bit of dignity he has left. However, to write that somebody tried to hold him back from discrediting the media is the strangest part of the whole letter.
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It was as if Briles was instructed to be mum on the issues at hand to not make it worse for him. To take no responsibility for the allegations going in his program and then flipping it around and blaming the media is only making things worse for him and the Baylor program.