The Baylor sexual assault scandal has really blown up over the past few weeks, and thing finally came to a head on Thursday when the program parted ways with head football coach Art Briles.
Many have their own opinion about how Baylor should be reacting right now, but few have had a hotter take than Art Briles's daughter, Staley Lebby. According to Sports Illustrated, this is what Lebby had to say about her father's termination from Baylor.
"This media witch hunt has been the most disturbing thing I've ever witnessed. The situation has been blown so out of proportion. Sadly, Baylor was influenced heavily by the media and felt pressured to let him go. I guess a man that has resurrected your program and made you a top 10 program wasn't worth fighting for or defending."
Well that's one way to look at it.
The media — including this website — have been following the Baylor issues more closely ever since the Sam Ukwuachu conviction on sexual assault back in August. That case really started to open a Pandora's box of issues that started to paint the program in a negative light.
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On Thursday, that negative light exploded into a burning white sun. Not only was Briles terminated from his position, but it was reported that the football program was intentionally misleading and interfering with investigation in order to benefit football players accused of assault.
We understand Lebby's position on this issue. Coach Briles is her father, after all. But no, there wasn't a media witch hunt after Art Briles; no one was snooping around, hoping that they would find something to get him fired. Instead, the football program handled these cases in an awful manner, interfering with them to a point that caused several people to get hurt and potentially forcing the school to face sanctions over the issue.
Briles was deservedly fired, and no record on the football field should have stopped that.
