Baylor Scandal leads to Texas Ranger Investigation

[RockyMTblue2]

"You are looking at a Mulkey who is scared, so who knows. Is she a callous dullard, you bet."

"A Callous dullard"??? Man, that's brutal. [Art Briles was the callous dullard; and every coach at Baylor is having to try to live beyond the stink he and his enablers left around here]

Hope to meet some of you guys in Dallas in 4 weeks. Best wishes to your guys in avoiding injury in the meaningless conference tourneys.

Dullard is probably the wrong word. Saying what she said was incredibly stupid. After the independent report and its fallout everyone knew there was no pushing back against that which would be anything but counter-productive. She's cocky, self-centered and hot tempered and regularly gets herself in trouble. So is there one word to capture that? She wants the spot light and will do strange things to get it. Now she has made herself, for at least a time, a lightning rod and lightning season is coming upon us.

 

[Kibitzer]

Someone should acquaint Coach Mulkey with what the ancient Roman lyric poet Horace once said:

"Words once spoke can never be recalled."​

 

[bags27]

I'd say that Mulkey has tunnel-vision. That she got where she is by being ferociously focused. Some people can be that ambitious and still have a broader perspective (sometimes that's called "wisdom"). Some people can't: they are wired to do just one thing (Isaiah Berlin's famous "Hedgehog and Fox" distinction derived from Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing").

And, while some people are wired to do/know things just one way, other people are simply scared to broaden their thinking. They believe that if they do that, somehow they'll lose the edge they've gained through that single-minded intensity. Freud defined maturity as learning to live with your ambiguities. That means accepting, rather than suppressing, complexity.

Is Mulkey hard-wired to know only what she knows, or is she emotionally stunted from knowing more than that? Nature vs. nurture?

Either way, she needs people around her to help her get the right message out. Because, one more slip-up of any sort--whether it be on sexual assault or sexual identity or some new thing coming out of left field--and good luck with recruiting....

 

[JavaMan]

This is just disgusting. After everything they've been through! Inept may become the new Baylor descriptor.

____________________________________________________________
​

Baylor fires associate director for football operations
A.J. Perez , USA TODAY Sports Published 1:20 a.m. ET March 14, 2017

DeMarkco Butler was hired Feb. 15 by new head football coach Matt Rhule, who was tasked with righting a football program that had several players linked to sexual and domestic assaults. KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, reported that Butler was fired for sending inappropriate texts to a teenager.

[LINK]

​

 

[Charliebball]

This is just disgusting. After everything they've been through! Inept may become the new Baylor descriptor.

____________________________________________________________
​

Baylor fires associate director for football operations
A.J. Perez , USA TODAY Sports Published 1:20 a.m. ET March 14, 2017

DeMarkco Butler was hired Feb. 15 by new head football coach Matt Rhule, who was tasked with righting a football program that had several players linked to sexual and domestic assaults. KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, reported that Butler was fired for sending inappropriate texts to a teenager.

[LINK]

​

The second firing of a new football employee in the past month............the other one had to do with a prostitution ring............yikes!!!!

 

[huskeynut]

Unbelievable.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Did the football coach bring these two with him from his last job? Big football and big basketball have gotten too big for their britches. I fear it will not change.

 

[DefenseBB]

"You are looking at a Mulkey who is scared, so who knows. Is she a callous dullard, you bet."

"A Callous dullard"??? Man, that's brutal. [Art Briles was the callous dullard; and every coach at Baylor is having to try to live beyond the stink he and his enablers left around here]

Hope to meet some of you guys in Dallas in 4 weeks. Best wishes to your guys in avoiding injury in the meaningless conference tourneys.

I laud you for your presence, perseverance and efforts to clarify the issues for us on the site.

I do empathize with all those who must deal with the horrible fall out and am hoping Karma throws a pox on Briles who in addition to all the crap he pulled had the temerity to sue the Board of Regents for wrongful termination and then pulled his suit when the Regents lawyers displayed their discovery. Unfortunately for Briles, another BU athletic department member kept his suit on the docket causing the public release show what an abosulute disgrace of a guy BRiles is.

BU did get a good bracket and should definitely feel they were not overlooked.

 

[CL82]

They are in a world of crap now.

Yes, yes they are.

 

[Charliebball]

Did the football coach bring these two with him from his last job? Big football and big basketball have gotten too big for their britches. I fear it will not change.

Yes from the Texas Detention Center football program.........

 

[Monte]

Actually, they are sending only one Ranger. After all, there is only one scandal.

I think it would be fairer to bring in an outside investigator.....but, John Wayne is not around anymore!

 

[JordyG]

This is just disgusting. After everything they've been through! Inept may become the new Baylor descriptor.

____________________________________________________________
​

Baylor fires associate director for football operations
A.J. Perez , USA TODAY Sports Published 1:20 a.m. ET March 14, 2017

DeMarkco Butler was hired Feb. 15 by new head football coach Matt Rhule, who was tasked with righting a football program that had several players linked to sexual and domestic assaults. KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, reported that Butler was fired for sending inappropriate texts to a teenager.

[LINK]

​

A fish rots from the head down. There is absolutely nothing about this development that I like. The culture there seems so foul, so morally bankrupt how could it not continue to hire reflections of itself. It is a mirror facing a mirror. A separate incident that is part and parcel of all that is wrong with Baylor MFB. The NCAA should give itself and its partners the death penalty if it fails to give Baylor the death penalty.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

I'd say that Mulkey has tunnel-vision. That she got where she is by being ferociously focused. Some people can be that ambitious and still have a broader perspective (sometimes that's called "wisdom"). Some people can't: they are wired to do just one thing (Isaiah Berlin's famous "Hedgehog and Fox" distinction derived from Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing").

And, while some people are wired to do/know things just one way, other people are simply scared to broaden their thinking. They believe that if they do that, somehow they'll lose the edge they've gained through that single-minded intensity. Freud defined maturity as learning to live with your ambiguities. That means accepting, rather than suppressing, complexity.

Is Mulkey hard-wired to know only what she knows, or is she emotionally stunted from knowing more than that? Nature vs. nurture?

Either way, she needs people around her to help her get the right message out. Because, one more slip-up of any sort--whether it be on sexual assault or sexual identity or some new thing coming out of left field--and good luck with recruiting....

Geno Auriemma is also "focused." Can't win so many national championships, and lead the USA team to numerous world and Olympic championships without being "focused." But he understands right from wrong. He hasn't said anything like what Mulkey has said.

No excuse.