Post by RanDaddy on May 18, 2016 18:30:07 GMT -5
...is it as rampant at say WVU?
www.yahoo.com/sports/news/baylor-can-only-blame-itself-after-latest-damning-report-205313955.html
Almost every college football program will take chances on players with violent tendencies. After all, it requires a certain amount of savagery to excel at the sport, and a percentage of those who do excel aren't able to limit their aggressiveness to the playing field.
So, on teams with 85 scholarship players, volatility is a common side effect. There are going to be behavioral problems. This is a legal and moral compromise most coaches – and most fan bases – are willing to make in pursuit of glory.
When those problems arise, a large segment of said fan base will spring into deflection mode. There will be vigorous finger pointing elsewhere, finding some program that is more morally adrift than Our School, and wondering why more attention isn’t being paid to them.
But where do you point the finger right now if you’re Baylor?
As the layers of violence continue to be peeled back, it becomes increasingly clear that the coaching staff and school has taken its tolerance of criminal behavior to another level. That next level is enabling, coupled with hiding or obfuscating potentially detrimental information.
The latest in a series of ESPN Outside The Lines reports Wednesday chronicling Baylor football violence named 10 former players who, over the past five years, have been involved or are alleged to be involved in altercations with women or other students. Many of them were involved in multiple altercations or assault allegations. Severe discipline rarely was a consequence for those players, according to the report.
FWIW...Holgerson seems to be less tolerant of that behavior than other past coaches, or maybe it's just because we only hear of the ones who get dismissed from the team?
Y'all live up that way (or have lived up that way). I never did, so I'd like to hear y'all five some input...
www.yahoo.com/sports/news/baylor-can-only-blame-itself-after-latest-damning-report-205313955.html
Almost every college football program will take chances on players with violent tendencies. After all, it requires a certain amount of savagery to excel at the sport, and a percentage of those who do excel aren't able to limit their aggressiveness to the playing field.
So, on teams with 85 scholarship players, volatility is a common side effect. There are going to be behavioral problems. This is a legal and moral compromise most coaches – and most fan bases – are willing to make in pursuit of glory.
When those problems arise, a large segment of said fan base will spring into deflection mode. There will be vigorous finger pointing elsewhere, finding some program that is more morally adrift than Our School, and wondering why more attention isn’t being paid to them.
But where do you point the finger right now if you’re Baylor?
As the layers of violence continue to be peeled back, it becomes increasingly clear that the coaching staff and school has taken its tolerance of criminal behavior to another level. That next level is enabling, coupled with hiding or obfuscating potentially detrimental information.
The latest in a series of ESPN Outside The Lines reports Wednesday chronicling Baylor football violence named 10 former players who, over the past five years, have been involved or are alleged to be involved in altercations with women or other students. Many of them were involved in multiple altercations or assault allegations. Severe discipline rarely was a consequence for those players, according to the report.
FWIW...Holgerson seems to be less tolerant of that behavior than other past coaches, or maybe it's just because we only hear of the ones who get dismissed from the team?
Y'all live up that way (or have lived up that way). I never did, so I'd like to hear y'all five some input...
