Baylor Coach Art Briles To Be Unfired ???

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It's unclear if there are enough votes to bring back Briles as football coach at Baylor in 2017. But the push to have the regents vote on a one-year suspension for Briles on Monday is being driven by some of the biggest big-money donors at the school - many of whom helped fund BU's $300 million football stadium that opened in 2014, sources told HD.

Sources said Briles met with some key figures associated with the school last Thursday about the possibility of a one-year suspension as the Bears' football coach. It's unclear how Briles would feel about the move, sources said.

There are those among the Baylor leadership who feel the major failings of the BU rape scandal fall on former president Ken Starr for the school not having a Title IX coordinator from 2011-2014, sources said. If BU had a Title IX coordinator, the football coaching staff would have had training on how to handle any complaints of rape made against football players, sources said.

Those members of the BU leadership who say Briles should have been spared while Starr should have been the fall guy for the scandal are getting a lot of pressure from big-money donors who say they'll stop giving to the university if Briles isn't brought back as coach in 2017, sources said.

If the votes aren't there to bring back Briles after a one-year suspension, the school would likely settle with Briles for between $15 million and $25 million, sources said. Briles had eight years and just under $40 million guaranteed left on his contract at Baylor, sources told HD.

Sources told HD there's a meeting on Tuesday associated with how to settle Briles' contract - a meeting that could obviously be affected by Monday's anticipated vote by the regents.

Sources also told HornsDigest.com that Baylor is in the process of settling Starr's tenured professorship in the BU law school so that Starr is completely disassociated with the university going forward. Starr has already been removed as president and then resigned the position of chancellor.

Sources also told HD there is no written version of the report by the Pepper Hamilton law firm, commissioned by Baylor president Ken Starr to investigate BU's handling of rape and assault claims on campus, including at least six Baylor co-eds who said they were raped or assaulted by Bears' football players.

The only information from the Pepper Hamilton report provided to BU officials has been done through oral briefings, sources told HD.

Baylor has hired former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe to head the Bears' football team in 2016 while retaining Briles' offensive and defensive assistant coaches. I'm told Grobe was hired at more than $1 million and that bonuses could take his salary to roughly $1.5 million for 2016. Mack Brown and Tommy Bowden were also considered, sources told HD.

Roughly a half dozen Baylor recruits who are incoming freshmen have indicated they want a release from their letters of intent so they can enroll elsewhere.

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interesting

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

very.

[cbolt]

I said he wouldn't be out of a job long,didn't think it would work out this way