The Bernstein Brief: Will Anyone Care About Baylor?
By Dan Bernstein--
CBSChicago.com senior columnist
(CBS) There's so much wrong with Baylor football, it's like an unimaginable dramatization of stereotypical big-college-sports corruption.
The latest report from ESPN's Outside the Lines details years of criminal behavior by multiple players, their actions not just tolerated by coaches but covered up and buried by the Waco Police Department. Art Briles' team has been running roughshod for years, essentially doing whatever they wanted to other people with no regard to consequence.
There have been altercations, sexual assaults, hidden police reports and no discipline. Everybody is in on it, trying to keep the football gravy train rolling unimpeded by pesky justice for victims of the Bears' marauding horde.
School president Ken Starr -- yes, that Ken Starr -- says he's all for "transparency," but we'll see.
It's just the latest and largest of an all-too-common reality, likely soon to be lost among all the other similar stories we struggle to differentiate from each other as the next one arrives, uglier than the last.
Dan Bernstein is a co-host of 670 The Score's "Boers and Bernstein Show" in afternoon drive. You can follow him on Twitter @dan_bernstein and read more of his columns here.
