It was only six months ago when Art Briles and Baylor University negotiated a contract settlement that ended the 61-year-old football coach’s employment at the university. The settlement seemingly closed one part of a chilling, multi-chapter controversy about Baylor football players raping women. Briles’s chapter was re-opened on Thursday when he sued four prominent Baylor officials for libel and other claims.
As explained on SI.com at the time, the June 2016 settlement between Briles and Baylor staved off Briles suing the school over its leaders’ efforts to terminate the remaining eight years of Briles’s 10-year contract, a deal that reportedly paid Briles approximately $6 million per year.