The same day Baylor released its report, the regents fired head coach Art Briles and sanctioned athletic director Ian McCaw, who resigned on Monday, the same day the school hired Jim Grobe to coach the 2016 season.
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He also said he has a zero-tolerance policy for egregious acts like bullying and sexual assault.
Starr: “All I’m going to say is I honestly have no recollection of that”. “But I urge them toward transparency, transparency”, he said. I am here to say coach Briles and this program are good.
It was Grant Teaff, the former Baylor coach and Bears icon, who wanted to gauge Grobe’s interest in helping save a program that had been gutted by a sexual assault scandal. “And I think the players are excited to have their coaches still here”. The school has not released names of every person who has been removed due to the findings, thus a cloud looms over the remaining members of the coaching staff. They were allowing the football coaches to decide what proper punishment is or when a rape should or shouldn’t be reported.
While speaking with KWTX’s Julie Hayes in another attempt at damage control and claiming ignorance over the sexual assault scandals on campus that resulted in his resignation and football coach Art Briles getting fired, Starr was asked a question about an email that one of the victims sent to him two years after her assault. Spaeth asked for the question about the email to be asked again.
“The email was promptly forwarded on the same morning by an office assistant to the appropriate senior officer in the Administration responsible for risk management and compliance”, Starr said in the Friday statement. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t.
“I will say this”, Starr said in his Tribune-Herald interview.
David Garland, in a letter emailed Friday to the school’s faculty, acknowledged that “These have been hard and confusing days to many”, and called on colleagues to “boldly address the improvements required to establish Baylor as a model for the comprehensive care of students”.
If those signees still do not want to attend Baylor after meeting him, will Grobe agree to part ways?
Responding to KWTX’s interview, Spaeth wrote News 8 ‘our job is to help clients tell a truthful story effectively, but KWTX is correct with my quote that I should not have interrupted’. “And I don’t want parents and kids to hurry up and make a decision right now”. “Everybody calm down and think things through, because I don’t know of a better place in America to get a degree from”.
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Grobe has already visited with the family of cornerback signee Parrish Cobb, who is still seeking his release despite that meeting.
