Report: 2 Baylor football staffers fired
Two Baylor football staffers in addition to coach Art Briles have reportedly been let go.
According to USA Today, athletics director for football operations Colin Shillinglaw and staffer Tom Hill were fired. Briles had been the only known public firing with association to the football team. He was fired Thursday in the wake of the independent investigation into Baylor’s handling of sexual assault allegations.
The school had said other people were fired but declined to identify who they were. From USA Today:
Shillinglaw was described by the person as someone who worked closely with Briles on personnel matters behind the scenes and had been involved with the accusations in the Pepper Hamilton report that led to the removal of Briles, the resignation of athletics director Ian McCaw and reassignment of president Ken Starr.
Hill had no formal responsibility within the football program, the person said, but had been at Baylor for 15 years in a variety of roles and was unofficially very involved with the football program.
The school hired former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe as its interim head coach Monday and has made no announcements regarding other changes to the football coaching staff. According to the summary of the report, members of Baylor’s athletic department “failed to recognize the conflict of interest in roles and risk to campus safety by insulating athletes from student conduct processes.”
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Football coaches and staff took affirmative steps to maintain internal control over discipline of players and to actively divert cases from the student conduct or criminal processes. In some cases, football coaches and staff had inapprorpriate involvement in disciplinary and criminal matters or engaged in improper conduct that reinforced an overall perception that football was above the rules and that there was no culture of accountability for misconduct.
Athletic director Ian McCaw, who the school said was sanctioned and placed on probation following the report, resigned Monday.
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