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It's timeto stop waiting for Baylor to do the "right" thing. Or any semblance of the "right" thing, even.At every critical juncture of the university's proceedings in handling sexual violence allegations involving football players, Baylor has failed.MORE: It failedthe victims, whose voices in many caseswere never heard. It failedthestudent body by propagating the notion of ajustice system and offering instead a very real system of corruption. Itfailedthe city of Waco when the universitybecame bedfellows with the Wacopolice, making both parties complicit in the sort of systemic cover-up that would make the Nixon administration Babe Ruth Jersey blush.But the worst part of this entire disastrous bungling is that no one quite knows how much we don't know about the rest of the sexual violence accusations with regard to Baylor's football program because the university and the Waco police are conspiring to keep it that way.On Tuesday, citing Waco police documents revealed at least two more allegations of sexual a sault and domestic violence against members of the football team, neither of which were among the multitude of other reports of sexual violence at Baylor in the past six years.One of the newly discovered cases stems from a 2011 incident in which three Baylor players were charged with a sault at an off-campus event.According to the documents, Baylor and Waco police decided to work together to keep the case out of the public eye, including the case's investigating officer discu sing with aWaco police commander that"the case be pulled from the computer system so that only persons who had a reason to inquire about the report would be able to Austin Romine Jersey acce s it." The details and files relevanttothat case, according to ESPN, were then placed in a locked office.The documents also revealed that a sexual a sault allegation against another Baylor player referred to onlyas "a star" in ESPN's report remained "open" in the Waco Police Department's case system, effectively taking that case off the public radar for as long as itsstatus remained unclosed."The player and the alleged victim deny any a sault took place, and in a separate criminal investigation, Waco police noted that officers had dealt with the woman as part of other allegations she had made against various people and concluded she was 'deceptive,'" ESPN explained in the report.A Phil Rizzuto Jersey victim in one of the cases told ESPN she notified Wes Yeary, the team's football chaplain, Art Briles, the head coach and Baylor president Ken Starr about an April 2014incident with her boyfriend, Devin Chafin, a six-foot, 220-pound running back. She alleged Chafin physically a saulted her on two separate occasions, both times grabbing her and slamming her into something.The victim reported both incidents to Waco police, providing photos of the bruising she suffered in the wake of the incident. Baylor nor Briles ever disciplined Chafin."I'd seen other girls go through it, and nothing ever happened to the football players," she told "Outside the Lines." Mickey Mantle Jersey "It's mind-boggling to see it continue to happen. I can't understand why. I think as long as they're catching footballs and scoring touchdowns, the school won't do anything."MORE: And therein lies the problem: Baylor, by all accounts, doesn't seem to care about the public perception of its school outside of its succe sful football identity. It has shown its systemic neglect from failing to be Title IX compliant for years past the deadlineto intentionally obscuring police records from the public on such a regular schedule that onecan almost set a watch to the release of new, damning information.Baylor cares so little about the non-footballperception of its university that during a public relationscrisis, it i sues a statement such as thisto "OTL":"We are certain the actions that result from this deliberative proce s will yield improvements acro s a variety of areas that rebuild and reinforce confidence in our university. We are saddened when any student, including a student-athlete, acts in a manner inconsistent with Baylor's mi sion or is a victim of such behavior."Perhaps president Starr and the rest of the university bra sshould pause for a moment andask themselvesa simple question: "What isBaylor's mi sion?" Gary Sanchez Jersey Is it being hellbent on winning football games at any cost? Is it incubating a culture of criminality? Whatever Baylor'smi sion, it has for too long been muddied by a tainted football program. Someone needs to be held accountable for this me s."If we made mistakes, lets live up to them, lets own them and then correct the situation," .Mistakes should be unintentional and infrequent, like forgetting to take out the garbage on trash day.Withholding information and colluding with policefor years is not a mistake, no matter how one tries to spin it.How many times can you repeat a "mistake" until it becomes intentional,Mr. Starr?