With second-year head coach Matt Rhule in charge of the Baylor Bears football program, there haven’t been any tone-deaf comments on the level of former interim coach Jim Grobe and the football program overall hasn’t dealt with any significant new scandals since an assistant strength and conditioning coach was fired for soliciting a prostitute in early 2017.
However, the cloud of scandal left over from the Kenneth Starr/Ian McCaw/Art Briles era continues to draw headlines and raise the question of whether the university deserves to remain a member of the Big 12 Conference.
There are still multiple levels of exposure for a university now embroiled in that scandal for more than three years as the Department of Education conducts investigations into Title IX compliance and crime reporting compliance, the Texas Rangers investigate sexual assaults on campus, the NCAA readies to hand down a finding of a “lack of institutional control,” and the Big 12 withholds 25 percent of revenue distribution payments as a third party conducts a verification review of necessary changes.