http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...inue-teach

Quote:Starr said in an interview with Outside the Lines that he was resigning effective immediately "as a matter of conscience."

After an independent review of Baylor's response to sexual assault allegations, many of them against athletes, Starr had been removed as school president last week, but he was being transitioned into a full-time chancellor role and was allowed to continue to teach at the law school. His duties as chancellor were to include external fundraising and religious liberty; he was to have no operational duties at the university.

On Wednesday, Starr called for transparency at Baylor. He said that "as each day goes by that need becomes more and more pressing."

"We need to put this horrible experience behind us," Starr said. "We need to be honest."

Starr, 69, added that he "didn't know what was happening" regarding allegations of Baylor's mishandling of sexual assault allegations, but he "willingly accepted responsibility."

"The captain goes down with the ship," he said.

Basically he's saying "Fine, you want to take me down? Then release the whole report!" (the part about "transparency").


Should the board members be forced to resign, over an athletics scandal?

Don't recall off the top of my head if Penn St regents resigned.

Spanier (PSU prez) resigned shortly after the scandal broke in November 2011. I don't remember offhand if any PSU regents stepped down.

Aahhh, Ken Starr...the sanctimony and self-righteousness oozes from every pore. Accepting responsibility: good (part of his job, actually). Denying knowledge of the actions of student-athletes and his employees: absolutely ass-saving and self-serving. Saying "We need to put this horrible experience behind us": awful, just awful tone-deaf response to a legal, moral, ethical situation.

Yes, he is indeed daring those around him to release the full report, in the name of 'transparency'. Any new details that leak from the report may well serve to damn any and all participants.

I'm not taking any pleasure from Ken Starr's statements. I'm astounded at his verbage and actions. All he has to do is follow Spin 101 in front of any microphone or camera, and he's choosing to avoid that.

(06-01-2016 12:41 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...inue-teach

Quote:Starr said in an interview with Outside the Lines that he was resigning effective immediately "as a matter of conscience."

After an independent review of Baylor's response to sexual assault allegations, many of them against athletes, Starr had been removed as school president last week, but he was being transitioned into a full-time chancellor role and was allowed to continue to teach at the law school. His duties as chancellor were to include external fundraising and religious liberty; he was to have no operational duties at the university.

On Wednesday, Starr called for transparency at Baylor. He said that "as each day goes by that need becomes more and more pressing."

"We need to put this horrible experience behind us," Starr said. "We need to be honest."

Starr, 69, added that he "didn't know what was happening" regarding allegations of Baylor's mishandling of sexual assault allegations, but he "willingly accepted responsibility."

"The captain goes down with the ship," he said.

Basically he's saying "Fine, you want to take me down? Then release the whole report!" (the part about "transparency").


Should the president and/or board members be forced to resign, over an athletics scandal?

Don't recall off the top of my head if Penn St prez or regents resigned.

Starr was the President.

Whoops! I had zero'ed on him being chancellor! Thanks! Updated.

I will just leave this here and you make up your own mind if Starr and the rest of the crew at Baylor had no idea what was going on:

http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Baylor-...32811.html


Baylor may have to go full Branch Davidian to end this.

Crap like this is why trump will be the next president. Bureaucrats who can't give a straight answer to save their lives and their fear of being "misedited." If the news organization has run it the way Starr and his handles wanted them to it would have been straight up propaganda.

Ken Starr has been protecting men for twenty-five years, who abused women. Nothing new with him.

(06-01-2016 12:45 PM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  Spanier (PSU prez) resigned shortly after the scandal broke in November 2011. I don't remember offhand if any PSU regents stepped down.

Going from memory, I think that 2 resigned, but the bigger issue was canning Joe. Not a single BoT member survived reelection. In fact, some didn't even bother run. And, all the replacements were explicitly pro-Joe. Given PSU's unique relationship w/ Joe, they aren't the best comp.