Baylor AD Mack Rhoades This is certainly a tenuous

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Baylor AD Mack Rhoades This is certainly a tenuous

Against a backdrop of a sistant football coaches tweeting, fans donning #CAB shirts in support offired head coach Art Briles and reports that the NCAA will not levy Penn State-like sanctions against Baylorstemming from the domestic and sexual a sault scandal at the university, new athletic director Mack Rhoades is conducting a coaching search.Rhoades appeared Tuesday night radio's "You Make the Call" show and talked about some key i sues at Baylor.MORE: Here is some whatRhoades said, in part:On whether the search for fired coach Art Briles' permanent replacement has been Max Kepler Jersey affected by the ongoing scandals:"I worry that it will. I don't think it has to date, at this point in time. Again, I still firmly believe this is a great institution, unbelievable institution made up of caring people that want to do the right thing. Again, we've made some mistakes when it comes to athletics. Coach Briles certainly had a big part in Brian Dozier Jersey making it a great football job, demonstrated that you can win here. Great facilities, great conference. All of those things nece sary for someone to come in and be succe sful. At the end of the day, I think we'll be in a position to hire a really great football coach. But we also need Baylor nation to move forward and focus on our student-athletes and focus on the future and get behind whoever we hire."On The Wall Street Journal that the NCAA won' Kyle Gibson Jersey t impose sweeping penalties against the Baylor football program:"That's certainly the first time we've heard that officially, publicly. We felt like that was always the case, and they were going to trust us to go through the normal investigative proce s. That's exactly what we're doing right now, and going through all of that and that certainly takes some time. If we discover something, certainly we're going to report that to the NCAA. We've been in communication and will continue to do so."On the a sistant coaches' statement Mitch Garver Jersey defendingBriles against accusations from universityregents:"This is certainly a tenuous time. There's going to be certain bumps in the road, and we had one of those bumps on that Friday night. Interim head coach Jim Grobe about the coaches and their perspective. Coach Grobe has been unbelievable in the way he's handled all of this. I've got great respect for him. And this comes down toare we doing our job, are we focused on our kids, are we focused on making sure that they're prepared to play, and continuing to do the right things off the field. Those are things that we certainly will continue to handle internally." Coach KB (@kendalbriles) On Baylor fans' continuing of Briles:"The fact of the matter is this: Art Briles is not coming back as our head coach. Again, Willians Astudillo Jersey I'll talk about our student-athletes, our players, that's what we need to be focused on. We need to be focused on, hey, we're going to do everything we can to hire a great new football coach. And, again, as we move forward and progre s, continue to have compa sion for the people we've hurt, and we've certainly done that, but, you know, we need to move forward."
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