Baylor: Add another cult school to the list

[Anonymous]

Sad...

[Anonymous]

It's the largest Baptist university in the world. What exactly did you expect?

[Anonymous]

Baptist is not a cult.

[Anonymous]

OP offers no evidence Baylor is a cult.

Ignore.

[Anonymous]

I assume rather than a religious cult, OP meant football cult like Penn State, since at both schools, worship of the football team seems to have allowed some pretty horrific behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume rather than a religious cult, OP meant football cult like Penn State, since at both schools, worship of the football team seems to have allowed some pretty horrific behavior.

Actually, I went to graduate school in Texas (different university) and Baylor is not at all a football cult, at least not to the level of the two flagship schools (UT & Texas A&M). Baylor's success is a recent phenomenon and is probably due to a lowering of standards to attract better athletes, who are not likely to be the most upstanding of citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I assume rather than a religious cult, OP meant football cult like Penn State, since at both schools, worship of the football team seems to have allowed some pretty horrific behavior.

Well, the difference here is that they sacked the incredibly successful football coach and demoted the chancellor and AD. Lots of schools have these issues (football players are a pretty rape prone bunch on average) and sweep them under the rug. Baylor should never have acted they way they did, but give them a little credit for cleaning house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume rather than a religious cult, OP meant football cult like Penn State, since at both schools, worship of the football team seems to have allowed some pretty horrific behavior.

Well, the difference here is that they sacked the incredibly successful football coach and demoted the chancellor and AD. Lots of schools have these issues (football players are a pretty rape prone bunch on average) and sweep them under the rug. Baylor should never have acted they way they did, but give them a little credit for cleaning house.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

I'm PP to whom you were responding. I was just trying to steer the conversation back to what I think OP was referring to (football issues) rather than some broad condemnation of Baptists which some responders were taking feigned offense to.

As far as response, could have been earlier, and would have been better if it were their own response to the issues instead of after it hit the press, when their response was essentially crisis management PR. Nonetheless, it was a good start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm PP to whom you were responding. I was just trying to steer the conversation back to what I think OP was referring to (football issues) rather than some broad condemnation of Baptists which some responders were taking feigned offense to.

As far as response, could have been earlier, and would have been better if it were their own response to the issues instead of after it hit the press, when their response was essentially crisis management PR. Nonetheless, it was a good start.

Agreed; should have been a lot earlier, but it's still more than many schools would have done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baptist is not a cult.

No more so than Mormonism. But I digress. ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume rather than a religious cult, OP meant football cult like Penn State, since at both schools, worship of the football team seems to have allowed some pretty horrific behavior.

Well, the difference here is that they sacked the incredibly successful football coach and demoted the chancellor and AD. Lots of schools have these issues (football players are a pretty rape prone bunch on average) and sweep them under the rug. Baylor should never have acted they way they did, but give them a little credit for cleaning house.

Agreed.

Lol. Do u guys sleep in the same bed? Credit for being caught? Otherwise these rapes go on and on and on ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Baptist is not a cult.

No more so than Mormonism. But I digress. ?

Mormons veer off on Joseph Smith and golden plates, among other non-biblical beliefs. That meets the definition of a cult.

[Anonymous]

What Baylor did was actually very, very un-football culty. I bet most P5 schools are keeping similar problems under wraps, and it's incredible that Baylor is actually taking efforts to fix their problems.

Some fans are irrational sure, but all sports have some irrational fans.

[Anonymous]

Neither mormons nor baptists are cults. Cults are lead by a living charismatic leader. Both may have started as cults, but the charismatic leader is long dead and they are no longer cults.