Baylor Apparently Wearing All-Black Uniforms To Protest Briles Firing
I'm too disgusted to comment:
Baylor wearing all-black uniforms vs. TCU to protest Art Briles’ firing https://t.co/HuveqGxjP3
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) November 5, 2016
Here is a screenshot of the tweet now that he has protected his account (H/t @SloopCast) pic.twitter.com/EvvHu4QA4n
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) November 5, 2016
November 5th, 2016 at 11:43 AM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 1:08 PM ^
I hope they lose every game by 100.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^
I'm really pulling for a Baylor-Penn State bowl game just to see which fan base is more delusional.
November 5th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
Cognitive Dissonance is a helluva drug
November 5th, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
Matches their souls.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
I'm sure they scheduled a black out, Nike requires them to wear the jerseys this year, and the players took it upon themselves to say they're wearing them to protest Briles.
If you think Nike is making jerseys specifically to protest a firing of a coach who was fired over a sexual assualt scandal, you're effing crazy.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
Yep, I don't disagree. Obviously Nike would not make that their cause. The players (and I would not be surprised if they had support from the coaches) did it.
November 5th, 2016 at 12:00 PM ^
Indeed...and wasn't necessarily replying to your OP...just saying in general. It just seems like this is something some piayers cooked up and now the media is going to run with it.
Recently they've tried to be the new Oregon with all of the jerseys, including black.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:55 AM ^
Agree, although I doubt Nike actually requires them to wear black jerseys.
November 5th, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^
I obviously don't know their contract details...but both Nike and Adidas do have clauses with certain schools that they have to wear a particular alternate jersey at some point over the season or over two seasons.
I can't imagine thats Baylor...but for some schools that does exist.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^
But if I'm the equipment folks, I'm going in the closet, getting out the regular jerseys, and swapping them out as we speak. There's no way there's anything in their Nike contract saying they have to wear it.
Players attaching this meaning to these uniforms is a lose-lose for everyone.
November 5th, 2016 at 2:35 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
And he deserved to be fired
November 5th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^
DEATH. PENALTY.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:52 AM ^
And to think that before this scandal broke, I found myself pulling a bit for Baylor as a longtime underdog made good. Ugh.
I'm sure the official reason for the jerseys is not to protest Briles's firing but still, just . . . ugh.
November 5th, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
What is it about college football that inspires so many of the people involved to be so completely tone-deaf?
November 5th, 2016 at 12:48 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 5:08 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
Baylor, you've been on notice for a year now - act like it. The ON NOTICE BOARD:
BAYLOR
UNC
PENN ST
OHIO ST
November 5th, 2016 at 12:11 PM ^
Whoops - wrong thread.
November 5th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^
November 5th, 2016 at 12:16 PM ^
On the one hand, I get that Art Briles (#CAB, for those of you figuring it out) is probably a good guy and cares about his players. If I met him in a personal setting without any of this context, I'm sure I'd even like the guy.
HOWEVER, even good people can have monumental failings. Whether it was due to the system, culture, or winning at all costs, someone had to take the fall for this. As the head coach, he is ultimately accountable for what happens on his team. If he and his staff are not keeping his players in line or willing to know what's going on with them, he is ultimately accountable. Is he a scapegoat? Yes, and it's absolutely appropriate in this case. While he didn't do anything overtly illegal, (willful) ignorance is not an excuse.
And as a final word, the narrative really needs to change from "Free Art Briles" to "Justice for the REAL victims."
I have a hard time finding a great amount of sympathy for a multi-millionaire head football coach when there are over a dozen female victims of sexual assault and rape perpetrated by football players who have not received justice, or even due consideration by all these blinded-by-football-loyalty fans.
November 5th, 2016 at 2:11 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^
It seems like it was supposed to be a green out. Players voted to wear the black unis
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/11/5/13532558/art-briles-…
Fuuuuuuck baylor
November 5th, 2016 at 12:32 PM ^
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November 5th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^
You'd think they would as to prepare for their future after football.
November 5th, 2016 at 12:42 PM ^
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Baylor vs. Penn State need to play each other in a bowl game this year. It will be the 1st Annual Pervert Bowl sponsored by Aldridge Partners Law Firm and Trojan Condoms - "because leaving DNA can be problematic".
November 5th, 2016 at 12:57 PM ^
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Even over the safety and well-being of our female students.
I get that they love their coach, but this is a bad, bad look.
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November 5th, 2016 at 1:09 PM ^
McMurphy jumped the gun and the Baylor players corrected him:
Baylor WR Chris Platt says all-black uniforms are because Bears playing rival TCU & not to protest Art Briles' firing https://t.co/pHozauc4sF
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) November 5, 2016
November 5th, 2016 at 1:03 PM ^
"Nobody is trying to protest anything that has to do with coach B"
November 5th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^
So what does that have to do with #truthdontlie, Chris?
Hmmm...
November 5th, 2016 at 1:06 PM ^
/s
Fuck them both.
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November 5th, 2016 at 1:11 PM ^
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This is the chronology of sordid events for those unfamiliar. It is a sad tale of obstruction of justice and lack of institutional control: http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/timeline-baylor-sexual-as…
Turns the stomach.
Second, the rapists and criminals have been charged and sentenced.
Third, we've had, what, 6+ months straight of the national media and everyone else portraying all of the rest of the players on the Baylor football team a bunch of criminal rapists and sexual assault thugs.
WTF do people expect to happen? Lay down and take it?
I'm going to go out on a limb and just guess that there is more than one Baylor football player fed up with being compared to rapist thugs. So there's a part of me that can imagine what that must be like, and can understand the raising of the double birds to unfounded allegations from people who don't even know who they are.
I don't agree with it. The team lost perspective. The team made it all about themselves. They could think about the sexual assault and rape victims more and do something for them.
But let's not pretend that being called a rapist over and over again, and compared to a rapists, and associated with rapists would have no affect on you.
November 5th, 2016 at 7:02 PM ^