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Former Baylor coach Art Briles should never coach again

By Patrick Schmidt

Sep 12, 2015; Waco, TX, USA; Baylor Bears head coach Art Briles prior to a game against the Lamar Cardinals at McLane Stadium. Baylor 66-31. Mandatory Credit: Ray Carlin-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 12, 2015; Waco, TX, USA; Baylor Bears head coach Art Briles prior to a game against the Lamar Cardinals at McLane Stadium. Baylor 66-31. Mandatory Credit: Ray Carlin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Baylor fired head football coach Art Briles but could he resurface as a coach in the NFL or get another college coaching job?

Art Briles is suddenly unemployed after Baylor fired the best head football coach in program history for repeatedly failing to effectively implement Title IX. According to the Pepper Hamilton report, Baylor showed, “a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player and to a report of dating violence.”

Briles wasn’t fired because of a lack of wins, he was fired for a lack of human decency.

In the immediate wake of the firing and the details of the Hamilton report, it would be stunning if Briles ever coaches another game for a college football team. He simply can’t be put in that position ever again after creating a hostile environment and jeopardizing the safety of women on campus.

But what about the NFL where wins can often trump personal accountability and human decency?

Briles won 65 games at Baylor in eight years, including four years with double-digit wins. Baylor had one 10-win season in the history of the program before he arrived, so it goes to show you how effective he was as a game day coach.

He had a player win the Heisman (Robert Griffin III), his offense is among the leaders for yards and points per game annually and he’s sent a number of players to the NFL. He’s an offensive innovator and some may even consider him a genius.

Is he the type of innovator or offensive genius that would entice an NFL team to bring him on to the staff?

I sincerely hope not.

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Briles is too toxic. He can’t be trusted. He’s not worth the public relations nightmare that would come with his hire, even in a consulting role. And if it was only a consulting role, which would be of minimal impact, why run the risk?

What he did at Baylor should be grounds for making him a football pariah who doesn’t find works in the game, on any level, ever again.

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