Grambling hires former Baylor coach Briles as high assistant

GRAMBLING, La. (AP) Grambling State soccer coach Hue Jackson has employed disgraced former Baylor coach Artwork Briles as offensive coordinator, the college confirmed Thursday.

Briles has not labored in faculty soccer since 2016, when he was fired by Baylor after an investigation concluded he and his workers took no motion towards gamers named in sexual assault allegations.

Grambling has not made a proper announcement, however made Briles out there for an unique interview with KTAL-TV in Shreveport.

Briles coached at Baylor from 2008-15, going 65-37. Boasting certainly one of then extra prolific unfold offenses in faculty soccer, the Bears have been commonly ranked within the AP Prime 25 throughout his tenure and twice acquired bids to main “New Years Six” bowls. Baylor had 4 10-win seasons in a five-year span from 2011-15, after solely profitable 10 video games as soon as earlier than that.

At Grambling, Briles takes over for Ted White, who left to affix the NFL’s Houston Texans.

Final summer season, an NCAA panel cleared Briles of committing any guidelines violations, but additionally made it clear that it discovered Briles conduct at Baylor unethical.

The NCAA infractions panel acknowledged that Briles “failed to satisfy even probably the most fundamental expectations of how an individual ought to react to the sort of conduct at problem on this case. Moreover, as a campus chief, the top coach is held to a good increased normal. He fully failed to satisfy this normal.”

Baylor paid Briles greater than $15 million after firing him. He later acknowledged making errors and apologized for “some unhealthy issues” that occurred beneath his watch.

Briles coached briefly in Italy after which at a Texas highschool in Mount Vernon.

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