Although he wants to coach next season, it’s hard to imagine a school or National Football League franchise giving Briles a job one year after the Baylor scandal consumed the news cycle. Briles was sacked from Baylor in May after findings from an independent investigation into the way the school handled sexual assault allegations.
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So, I understand that I made some mistakes, and for that I’m sorry.
Former Baylor HC Art Briles told ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi, “I understand I made some mistakes”. “And I’ve made that very clear to our leadership”. I was the captain of this ship. But I’m not trying to plead for people’s sympathy.
“I’m gonna learn”, Briles said. Football coaches and staff took affirmative steps to maintain internal control over discipline of players and to actively divert cases from the student conduct or criminal processes.
A February Outside the Lines investigation uncovered the counts of multiple women who reported they were raped, only to be ignored by school officials or met with resistance.
Two Baylor football players have been convicted of sexual assault in the last four years – Tevin Elliott in 2012 and Sam Ukwuachu in 2015.
Baylor president Kenneth Starr and athletic director Ian McCaw also left the school in the controversy’s aftermath.
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Art Briles has won 164 career games as a head coach (Getty). As a head coach, he has an overall record of 99-65 in 13 years, eight of which were spent with the Bears. The bulk of the report were not released to the media but the inference was that Briles engaged into pressuring victims and witnesses of sexual assault into not pursing charges. He said he plans to return next season.
