Because Briles was sacked several weeks after the Hernandez suit was filed, the letter included as an exhibit with the motion says “The conclusion is inescapable that the motive of Baylor University and the Board of Regents was to use its Head Football Coach and the Baylor Athletic Department as a camouflage to disguise and distract from its own institutional failure to comply with Title IX and other federal civil rights laws”.
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Negotiations are now churning to settle Briles’ contract, which had eight years and almost $40 million in guaranteed money remaining, sources told Brown.
“The conclusion is inescapable that the motive of Baylor and the Board of Regents was to use its head football coach and the Baylor athletic department as a camouflage to disguise and distract from its own institutional failure to comply with federal civil rights protections”, Briles’s lawyer wrote in the motion.
From Briles’ perspective, it appears the primary objective of this filing is to force the school to turn over all information related to the Pepper Hamilton investigation, setting up a legal showdown over the eight years and roughly $40 million remaining on his contract.
Baylor then hired former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe took over the program as acting coach.
Hernandez has chosen to be identified as she is speaking publicly to draw attention to the situation.
Briles apparently said as much to his own players, writing in a text he was “no longer the head football coach” at Baylor.
Briles is a co-defendant with Baylor in a lawsuit filed by a rape victim.
According to Cannon, Briles met with Baylor’s attorneys on April 7 to go over information pertaining to the lawsuit but now the school is using that information against the former football coach.
The letter says Briles “does not wish to settle the case”, contrary to what Baylor lawyers told the judge last week.
The report said Baylor failed to properly respond to sexual assaults and it also led to the departure of athletic director Ian McCaw and the demotion of university president Kenneth Starr to chancellor.
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In his motion and the attached exhibits, Briles and his attorney make a number of allegations against Baylor and its attorneys primarily focused around the idea that though he was told he was being represented by Baylor’s people, they weren’t actually doing that or keeping him informed of what was going on.
