Former Baylor coach Art Briles and his assistant coaches actively intervened in the discipline of football players, worked with law enforcement to keep their cases under wraps and tried to arrange legal representation for their players, according to a series of emails and text messages released by the university in a legal filing Thursday.
The document filed in a Dallas County court was in response to a libel lawsuit that former football director of operations Colin Shillinglaw had filed Tuesday against the school and several of its senior leadership.
The university's response alleges Briles and his coaching staff created a disciplinary "black hole" into "which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared.