The Art Briles era ended Thursday at Baylor, brought down by an investigation on sexual assaults at the school.
What remains is embarrassment and uncertainty for the institution, a football program that has emerged as a remarkable turnaround story and an ultra-successful coach. Baylor will now be a cautionary tale of what happens when winning trumps everything else.
Just as he was the during the improbable rise from doormat to two-time Big 12 champion and College Football Playoff contender, Briles was at the center of the school's response to an internal investigation by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton.