School football players are treated similarly to what we are seeing in politics and Hollywood.He might be a little busy on a job search. He just lost his job as head of Baylor University over a (ahem) sex scandal for his part in a coverup of sexual assault by some football players.
the former special prosecutor who spent three years chasing the right-wing ghost before become infamous for his dogged investigation into former president Bill Clinton's sexual improprieties in the White House is now caught up in a sex scandal of his own -- accused of all things, failing to vigorously investigate allegations of sexual impropriety.
After an independent investigation of widespread allegations of campus sexual assault, Baylor University president Ken Starr has been demoted by the University's board of regents on Thursday.
Along with the head coach of the school's famed football team, Art Briles, Starr was specifically faulted for essentially ignoring complaints of sexual assault from female students, specifically charges stemming from the school's storied football team.
A report released on Thursday found that under Starr's leadership, Baylor failed “to identify and train responsible employees under Title IX” -- a federal law meant to protect female students. The damming 13-page report cited a “lack of strong institutional management and control on a number of levels.”
https://www.salon.com/2016/05/26/bi...esident_amid_shocking_sexual_assault_scandal/
You couldn't write a script like that.
Football teams are a benefit to schools as they gain revenues and community support.
As long as someone is of benefit to the whole, then indescretions are overlooked in the guise of being 'good' for the whole to let it slide.
'Bad apples are considered untouchable (to an extent) as long as they are beneficial.
We are seeing this same scenario played out with men like Al Franken and his bunch & Roy Moore and his bunch.
They might be bad apples, but are still seen as beneficial to their bunch (instead of the old 'one bad apple spoils the whole bunch').
We could ask ourselves if this type behavior has been prevelent throughout history, and if it is instinctual (natural) to allow a sacrifice of an few innocent victims to perserve the welfare of the whole, or to risk the whole to protect a few.
If I were a gambling old woman, I would bet that the former happened much more often than the latter.