An NCAA panel ruled Wednesday that Baylor University will not be punished for the sexual abuse scandal that involved its football program between 2011 and 2016.
The NCAA said Wednesday that its long investigation of the Baylor sexual assault scandal would result in nothing more than probation and other relatively minor sanctions because the egregious, "unacceptable" behavior at the heart of the case did not violate its rules.
The hearing panel could not conclude that failing to report incidents of alleged sexual assault was an impermissible benefit for student-athletes because the university had a “campus-wide culture of non-reporting.”
The NCAA said Wednesday that its long investigation of the Baylor sexual assault scandal would result in nothing more than probation and other relatively minor sanctions because the egregious, “unacceptable” behavior at the heart of the case did not violate its rules. The NCAA ruling came more than five years after the scandal rocked the…