After an investigation showed how Ken Starr, Baylor University football coach Art Briles, and other administrators at the university promoted a culture discouraging the reporting of sexual assaults, Kenny Starr was forced to resign his position as chancellor. In a recent interview, reported on by Deadspin, Mr. Starr spoke with the Texas Tribune and whined and cried all about how unfair everybody was treated—except of course how unfairly the victims of rape at the school he was helping to oversee.
To Starr, however, Briles should not be seen as the leader of a program that repeatedly twisted its priorities to place football victories above basic human security, but rather as the victim of exaggerated claims spun by the media.
“A grave injustice was done to Art Briles,” Starr said of the coach’s firing, going on to say that he takes issue with media descriptions of Briles’ behavior. “Coach Briles has been calumnied ... it’s completely unfair.”
Ken Starr couldn’t be more more full of baloney if he were a sandwich made inside of an Oscar Mayer facility.
Starr reserved his fierce sympathy for Briles and discussed the victims of the sexual assaults only in passing. Much as Briles did in his interview withCollege GameDay two weeks ago, Starr shied away from any mention of the terms “sexual assault” and “rape,” instead choosing the language of “interpersonal violence” and “unpleasantness.”
Here’s the gravely violated former coach Art Briles being a standup guy a few weeks ago.
The attorney for a sexual assault victim suing Baylor University is claiming that former head football coach Art Briles backed out of a pledge to support and apologize to the victim, who was raped by a Baylor football player in 2012.
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On Friday, Briles and Baylor reached a settlement about his firing, according to The Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald, and Cannon withdrew the legal motion, leaving Briles to be represented by Baylor's attorneys. Neither Briles nor Cannon showed up for the mediation meeting on Friday, Zalkin said. The mediation ended without a deal, Zalkin said.
"[Briles] used the threat of helping Jasmin in her lawsuit against Baylor as leverage to negotiate his wrongful termination claim against Baylor," Zalkin said. "He doesn't care about victims. He never cared about victims. He's using victims. He used them to help build up his football program, and now he's using Jasmin to leverage more money out of Baylor.”
There is a special place in hell for people like Ken Starr and Art Briles.