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Opinion: Southern Miss coach is wrong, Art Briles isn't deserving of forgiveness or a job

Art Briles loves the Lord, so all is now forgiven.

So says Southern Miss coach Jay Hopson, who took a curious approach to job security by leaping to Briles' defense after university leaders rejected the former Baylor coach as their new offensive coordinator.

Dozens of women at Baylor were sexually abused by Briles’ players and degraded by his coaching staff. They were treated as if they had no value, their pain and anguish irrelevant, their pleas for compassion and justice ignored.