Report: NCAA interviewed two former Baylor athletic staffers about school's Title IX violations
Recently, it was the Big 12 telling Baylor shape up or risk the consequences. The conference threatened to withhold revenue from the university until "the changes that were promised are actually made and that systems are in place to avoid future problems,"
Big 12 board chairman David Boren said.
Then, reports surfaced that NCAA enforcement staff would
look into aspects of Baylor's Title IX compliance. Monday,
Waco's Channel 10 KWTX station reported that the NCAA has interviewed two former Baylor staffers about the sexual assault allegations.
The KWTX report says the league interviewed former volleyball coach Jim Barnes and former assistant athletic director Tom Hill, whom Barnes reported to.
A volleyball player Barnes coached claimed she was "gang-raped by multiple football players" in 2013, KWTX reported. The coach left Waco to lead Tulane's program in 2014.
Hill was fired after the Pepper Hamilton investigation into Baylor's sexual assault scandal, an investigation in which numbers initially reported
five football players accused of eight or more instances of sexual assault since 2009. By February, a court filing had bumped that to
31 football players allegedly committing at least 52 rapes from 2011-2014. Pepper Hamilton also found "institutional failures at every level," it said. A recent court filing elaborated.
"The football program was a black hole into which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared," the court filing reads.
The NCAA reportedly interviewed Hill in Dallas in January about both Baylor's volleyball and its football program.
KWTX retrieved an affidavit saying Barnes informed Hill of the alleged rape after it occurred but "did not provide details and did not expect him to act on the information" since he had already told then-Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw.
McCaw, who joined football coach Art Briles among those fired from the report, is now the athletic director at Liberty University.
Liberty continues to defend the hire, noting he was a "good man in a place where bad things were going on."
Per KWTX, Hill was "unable to comment when contacted," and the NCAA didn't respond to requests for comment Monday.
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