Baylor considering one-year suspension for Art Briles

School president Ken Starr lost his title and athletic director Ian McCaw resigned several days later as a result of the report.

Whether the board decides to reinstate Briles after a one-year suspension remains to be seen, but it would be a move that would be met with plenty of public criticism after it was found Briles and other assistants turned a blind eye to sexual assault allegations against current and former players. By 2010, he had the school in a bowl game and in the last three years, Baylor has been a top 10 football program with the most dynamic offense in the country and won two conference titles. The meeting could simply be about how best to settle and part ways with Briles, the source said.

Meantime, Garland made mention to WFAA of the original decisions the Board of Regents made May 26, including not only suspending Briles “with intent to terminate” but also removing Kenneth Starr from his role as president.

According to the unidentified “large Baylor donor”, high-level boosters aren’t pushing for Briles’ return but instead are merely seeking the opportunity for him to defend himself – while they’re also pushing for transparency from the board.

If the vote were to go that way Briles would be issued a one-year suspension by the school rather than being dismissed entirely.

The players, he said, deserved a “man of high quality like Coach Briles”. More victims have come forward to allege sexual assaults by football players at the school.

Briles couldn’t be reached for comment.

HD has previously reported that Baylor is in the process of reaching a financial settlement with Starr over his position as a tenured professor in the BU law school so that Starr will be completely dissociated with the school.

But now we have news out of Texas that the Baylor Board of Regents might be reconsidering that.

“If that is what the contract said, there is at least an argument that [Briles] violated that”, says Brian Socolow, partner and head of the sports practice at Loeb & Loeb, a law firm in NY.