Baylor’s ex-AD, Ian McCaw, claims regents used black athletes as scapegoats for sexual assault issues

The story that just never seems to go away.  

Baylor is back in the news regarding the sexual assault issues that cost the president, chancellor, and head coach, Art Briles, their jobs.  

Former Baylor AD Ian McCaw alleges the school’s regents employed an elaborate plan that “essentially scapegoated black football players and the football program for being responsible for what was a decades-long, university-wide sexual assault scandal,” according to a motion filed in a Title IX lawsuit last Wednesday.  

McCaw claims he was urged to stay as AD at Baylor, but he refused because he ‘was disgusted at that point with the regents, the racism, the phony “finding of fact” and because he did not want to be part of some Enron cover-up scheme.’

Obviously, what went on at that campus was disgusting and awful… but I tend to believe McCaw’s story.  It’s not out of the realm of possibility that small college town big-wigs would devise a cover-up and blame somebody that leads a program that has never had much success, especially for regents that might not necessarily look favorably on the football program anyway.

The other side of this is that, I believe, new head coach Matt Rhule, who came to Baylor from Temple University, was probably lied to, in order to get him to take the job.  I believe the people he’s working under are probably the biggest reason he was shopping around to the Colts and a few other teams after last season.

I’m sure there will be more develop about this eventually.

Gary Segars

Gary began his first website in 1998 as a sophomore in high school, writing reviews of cds and live shows in the Memphis area. He became editor of his college newspaper, then moved towards a career in music.He started the infamous MemphisTider.com blog during the 2006 football season, and was lucky enough to get into blogging just before the coaching search that landed Nick Saban at Alabama. The month and a half long coaching search netted his site, which was known for tracking airplanes, over 1 million hits in less than 90 days. The website introduced Gary to tons of new friends, including Nico and Todd, who had just started the site RollBamaRoll.com.After diving into more than just Alabama news, Gary started up his first installment of WinningCuresEverything.com in 2012. After keeping the site quiet for a while, it was started back up in April 2016. Gary then joined forces with high school friend Chris Giannini and began a podcast during the 2016 football season that runs at least 2 times a week, focusing on college football, NFL football, and sports wagering, and diving into other sports and pop-culture topics.E-mail: gary@winningcureseverything.com Twitter: @GaryWCE