Cowboys 'Chills' Amid Baylor's Briles News
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ARLINGTON (105.3 THE FAN) - On a day when the Cowboys were celebrating Texas as "football country'' thanks to an announcement that the UIL high school football title games will be played at AT&T Stadium, "football country'' also felt the reverberations of coach Art Briles being ousted as head of the scandal-plagued Baylor University football program.
"That's the first I've heard, so you're catching me off-guard,'' Cowboys COO Stephen Jones said during the noon hour on Thursday, moments after the Briles news broke. "It sends a chill.''
Briles is widely recognized as a highly-successful Texas high school coach who brought annual 10-win success to Baylor, transforming the Waco school into a national power. But he and other university leaders — who may or my not suffer his same fate — are the overseers of a football program now buried amid revelations of athletes' sexual assaults on female students.
"He's obviously been a guy who's developed great players in college and developed a great program,'' Jones said, noting that Briles' daughter is a former Cowboys employee in the PR department. "I just know that we've had great players like Terrance Williams from Baylor who think the world of him. … So (this news) is very unfortunate.''
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