Art Briles is done with Baylor, and he wants to be officially done as part of a lawsuit against his former employer.
According to the Associated Press, Briles’ attorneys have asked a federal judge to remove the former Bears head coach as a defendant in a lawsuit filed against the university. The AP writes that “Briles’ motion filed Wednesday says the claims against the coach are based on hearsay,” while also arguing that “federal and state laws don’t allow him to be sued as an individual in the case against the university.”
In late March, a former BU student filed a lawsuit against Baylor in which she claims she was raped by a Bear football player, Tevin Elliott, and that the university along with Briles were “deliberately indifferent to complaints by student victims of rape.” In 2014, Elliott was convicted of sexually assaulting another different BU student at a party in 2012 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Elliott’s conviction, ESPN‘s Outside the Lines reported in January, came after he was accused of either rape or assault five other times from October of 2009 to April of 2012 while he was still a member of Briles’ football program. In the OTL report, one of Elliott’s alleged victims, identified only as “Tanya,” alleges that the university essentially ignored allegations because the sexual assault happened off-campus and, in her mind, a football player was involved.
One of the more disturbing portions of the report was that, two weeks before “Tanya” was raped by Elliott, another woman, identified as “Kim,” had filed a police report accusing Elliott of sexually assaulting her.
In May of this year, Briles was suspended with the intent to terminate following the numerous sexual assault scandals that rocked both the university and the football program. Late last month, the two sides announced that they “have mutually agreed to terminate their employment relationship.”