Baylor did the right thing after doing the wrong thing for too long.
All of that was born out of trying do the one thing any school wants to do — build a lucrative winning football program.
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Baylor fired Art Briles on Thursday, a move expected after Baylor released a statement that showed "a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player, to take action in response to reports of a sexual assault by multiple football players, and to take action in response to a report of dating violence.