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BY MAC ENGEL
tengel@star-telegram.com
August 07, 2018 06:00 PM
Updated 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Baylor’s hope to avoid any serious penalty with the Big 12 and NCAA has hit a snag.
According to multiple sources, the NCAA’s multi-year investigation into the Baylor athletic department has taken a “left turn” to the point that school officials are being advised to self-impose sanctions.
Sources said the law firm representing Baylor in its investigation with the NCAA has recommended to school officials that it impose a one-year bowl ban for the 2018 season.
The “Lack of Institutional Control” infraction, which is so vague it can cover virtually any scenario, is the likely potential NCAA violation.
Sources said the NCAA has recently interviewed former Baylor football coach Art Briles, former Baylor president Ken Starr and former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw; those interviews could have changed the NCAA’s direction on this case.
Baylor athletic department officials are not permitted to publicly comment on the investigation until its completion, which should be within the next 60 days.
Baylor’s original hope had been that the NCAA’s investigation into Title IX infractions, specifically pertaining to sexual assault complaints, would result in a similar scenario that happened at the University of North Carolina and it’s academic fraud scandal; that case resulted in no sanctions despite the school essentially admitting to university-wide academic fraud.
The primary lawyer representing Baylor on this is Rick Evrard out of Kansas City; Evrard represented North Carolina in its academic fraud case with the NCAA.
The NCAA’s logic is that the infractions at North Carolina were not specific to the athletic department but rather the entire university. As a result, no NCAA violation technically occurred, and UNC was not sanctioned.
One of the problems for the NCAA is specifying the infraction, or infractions, committed by the Baylor athletic department that were exclusive from the rest of the school.
Another problem for the NCAA in the matter of Baylor, per sources, is separating the university from former football coach Art Briles. If it can.
If the NCAA wants to slap a show-cause penalty on Briles, it will likely have to punish the university as well for infractions that were not confined to just the athletic department. That won’t be easy.
BY MAC ENGEL
tengel@star-telegram.com
August 07, 2018 06:00 PM
Updated 1 hour 19 minutes ago
Baylor’s hope to avoid any serious penalty with the Big 12 and NCAA has hit a snag.
According to multiple sources, the NCAA’s multi-year investigation into the Baylor athletic department has taken a “left turn” to the point that school officials are being advised to self-impose sanctions.
Sources said the law firm representing Baylor in its investigation with the NCAA has recommended to school officials that it impose a one-year bowl ban for the 2018 season.
The “Lack of Institutional Control” infraction, which is so vague it can cover virtually any scenario, is the likely potential NCAA violation.
Sources said the NCAA has recently interviewed former Baylor football coach Art Briles, former Baylor president Ken Starr and former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw; those interviews could have changed the NCAA’s direction on this case.
Baylor athletic department officials are not permitted to publicly comment on the investigation until its completion, which should be within the next 60 days.
Baylor’s original hope had been that the NCAA’s investigation into Title IX infractions, specifically pertaining to sexual assault complaints, would result in a similar scenario that happened at the University of North Carolina and it’s academic fraud scandal; that case resulted in no sanctions despite the school essentially admitting to university-wide academic fraud.
The primary lawyer representing Baylor on this is Rick Evrard out of Kansas City; Evrard represented North Carolina in its academic fraud case with the NCAA.
The NCAA’s logic is that the infractions at North Carolina were not specific to the athletic department but rather the entire university. As a result, no NCAA violation technically occurred, and UNC was not sanctioned.
One of the problems for the NCAA is specifying the infraction, or infractions, committed by the Baylor athletic department that were exclusive from the rest of the school.
Another problem for the NCAA in the matter of Baylor, per sources, is separating the university from former football coach Art Briles. If it can.
If the NCAA wants to slap a show-cause penalty on Briles, it will likely have to punish the university as well for infractions that were not confined to just the athletic department. That won’t be easy.
