Legal Docs Show Baylor Head Coach Was A Real Dirtbag

03 Feb, 2017

Former Baylor coach Art Briles and his staff worked to keep player misconduct quiet and handled discipline internally, new info released by the school in a legal filing Thursday shows.

The filing came in response to a libel lawsuit by former director of operations Colin Shillinglaw, filed against the school. The university called Briles’s team culture a disciplinary “black hole,” where “reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared,” according to ESPN.

The filing details one case where the former girlfriend of ex-Baylor defensive lineman Shawn Oakman reported that he physically abused her. Shillinglaw and members of the coaching staff, according to the lawsuit, refrained from sharing that information with anyone at Baylor outside the athletic department, and that Shillinglaw denied any knowledge of it during Baylor’s external investigation into the matter.

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