I would like nothing more than for M. Hernandez and the seemingly inexhaustible line of "Jane Doe's" suing Baylor to win, big. I am rooting for them to win, not because I hate Baylor, or because I root for another team - but because "football player rapist" is tragic, and awful, and needs to stop. Everywhere - from Penn State to deep in the heart of Texas.
As for Baylor's lawyers not representing the Baylor coach in an inquiry into the Baylor football program - I am extremely dubious. If Baylor's lawyers are now using things Briles told them to shift blame from the institution to the coach... well, no matter how much personal distaste I have for Briles, that's dirty pool. There's no chance that Baylor's lawyers were not representing Baylor's employee, Briles, in any meeting with the Hamilton investigators. For those lawyers to turn around and use what Briles told them as part of shifting the blame to the coach and away from the institution is.... very problematic.
Even if Briles was next to his rapey players, coaching them on how to rape better - he deserves due process and for his lawyers to obey the rules of the legal process. Guilty people need lawyers more than innocent ones, etc. So... I am bothered by the intimation that Briles complaining about Baylor's lawyers doing something unethical is "crying". If Baylor did what Briles alleges, the whole insitution should be shut down, not just the football program. Those lawyers should be disbarred.
Briles' complaints are not tone deaf and his right to due process has nothing to do with what he (probably) did to need a lawyer in the first place. The one way Briles (and Baylor) gets away with what they did is to fuck up the procedural stuff and to ignore the basic tenets of our society. I, too, want Briles to pay a price for what I suspect he has done, and has allowed to happen on his watch. The best way for that happen is for there not to be legal shenanigans.
The one thing we can all agree on is that Baylor sucks.