Briles hiring has been confirmed by multiple outlets, despite denials by Grambling State representatives on Wednesday. There is no truth to the rumor that a football team from the HBCU is playing in the DI-FCS. I won't give a statement regarding false hires.
The rumor that Briles was going to be the offensive coordinator at the HBCU was completely shut down, only to be confirmed today. The Grambling State Tigers are coached by a former head coach. The school's denial of the leaked news leaves a bad taste in the mouth, but not as bad as the Briles hire itself.
Briles was hired as the head coach at Baylor University in 2008 and turned around a struggling program. In 2016 it was revealed that school officials had been covering up allegations of assault, sexual and otherwise, perpetuated by multiple Bears football players. Between 2012 and 2016 there were incidents involving Briles-recruited players, some of whom had troubling histories that Briles was attempting to redeem through the healing power of football.
An NCAA report found that Briles failed to meet the most basic expectations of how a person should react to conduct like that. You would imagine that every school in the nation has the ability to prevent Briles like the plague.
While Briles painted the report as a campaign against him and denied knowledge of his players crimes, the university alleges that he was aware of the gang rape of a student by members of the football team and did nothing. He filed a defamation suit against the university, but dropped it after a while.
The hiring of Briles by a Canadian League team was reversed after public backlash. He was reprimanded for using ineligible players at a Texas high school, as well as in the Italian Football League. I'm not sure whether he thinks that getting back on the NCAA stage is a good idea at this point, six years after the scandal at Baylor, but the public reaction has been vocally and extremely negative, with some expressing their concerns for the safety of Grambling State.
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