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As TCU hires Kendal Briles, has anyone learned a lesson?
Opinion by Mike Finger, Staff writerUsed to be, the easiest feat in the world was to declare oneself morally superior to Baylor. With its repeated, systemic mishandling of rampant sexual assault allegations in its football program and across its campus from 2012 to 2016, the Waco university and many who worked there set an ethical bar so low that everyone else couldn’t help but clear it.
This proved convenient for anybody in sports who needed to deflect attention from their own questionable behavior or decisions. And few loved playing the Baylor card more than those who counted themselves among the Bears’ biggest rivals.
“If he made a mistake, he made a mistake,” then-TCU coach Gary Patterson said in 2015 of a player arrested on a felony robbery charge. “It’s not even close to what happened south of here.”
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