Update: AFCA executive director Todd Berry released the following statement Monday morning:

“The AFCA has always taken great pride in making sure we provide the best educational experiences for our coaches. We always appreciate our coaches and their willingness to share their experiences — on and off the field — to help educate the rest of our membership in their pursuit of professional growth. Art Briles was scheduled to speak at the 2018 AFCA Convention. However, due to concerns, we have decided to cancel his session. I’m saddened that our coaches have lost an opportunity.”

Our original story, published Sunday, Jan. 7:

CHARLOTTE — Former Baylor head coach Art Briles has rarely spoken publicly since he was fired in May 2016 amid a player sexual assault scandal under his watch. On Tuesday, he’ll speak about the topic in front of a ballroom of football coaches.

Briles is scheduled to speak at the American Football Coaches Association convention here, in a breakout session titled “Standing Strong / Game Management.”

Why invite Briles, with his damaged reputation, to speak to coaches? AFCA executive director and former Louisiana Monroe head coach Todd Berry said it’s about understanding what went wrong and what corrections coaches should learn.

“It’s our responsibility to educate coaches,” Berry told The Athletic. “Certainly one of the things Coach Briles experienced, and one of the things I believe he’s going to share, is there are some things that happened and he can share an experience no one else can with our group, so that we can avoid issues down the road.

“While there are things you know in theory, the reality is you’re going to gain more from someone who experienced it, that knows what to look for.”

An investigative report commissioned by the school and prepared by the law firm Pepper Hamilton determined that Baylor “coaches” and “football staff” stifled investigations into sexual assault during their time there.

Since his firing, Briles has been out of coaching, though not of his own choosing. He was briefly a consultant with the Cleveland Browns in October 2016. This past August, he was hired on the staff of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League before the team rescinded the hiring that same day amid backlash. Texas booster Red McCombs pushed for Briles to get the head coaching job at Incarnate Word last month, but the job went to Texas Tech offensive coordinator Eric Morris.

At last year’s AFCA Convention, public speaker and rape survivor Brenda Tracy spoke to a crowd of thousands about her experience and the role coaches need to play in preventing it. She received a standing ovation from the group of coaches. Sportscaster-turned-activist Rachel Baribeau is scheduled to speak earlier Tuesday about how players should treat women and handle themselves.

“We’re not going to shy away from those things,” Berry said. “These are things we need to deal with as a society, and certainly within football. Brenda did an outstanding job in a very difficult situation. She experienced something that, as men, we don’t understand. She did it in a way that allowed us to get a better feel for that. That’s why we’re going to continue that with Rachel Baribeau this year and with Art Briles.

“We’re going to take on those really difficult issues with people that experienced them. That way, we’ve got a better way of making corrections.”

Briles’ speech will also come three days after his son Kendal was hired as the offensive coordinator at Houston, where he played and where Art used to be the head coach. Kendal spent the 2017 season at FAU and relatively out of the spotlight.

Kendal defended his father on social media after his father’s firing. Though coaches weren’t named in the Pepper Hamilton report, Kendal is named in a pending lawsuit against Baylor, which alleges he pitched to recruits that female students at Baylor liked the football players.

A clause in Kendal’s memorandum of understanding at Houston states that UH can terminate him with cause if negative information comes out regarding his time at Baylor that he hasn’t disclosed.

Tracy took to social media to share her frustration with Kendal’s new job.

I met @CoachApplewhite I shared my story with his team. I’m not only disappointed by this hire – I’m deeply saddened. I’m not sure how he came to this decision, but it goes against everything we discussed and agreed was important to shift football culture. https://t.co/nMPZcLIRH2 — Brenda Tracy (@brendatracy24) January 6, 2018

As for the convention, Berry says Art Briles was invited to speak at the convention midway through the 2017 season. The goal is to help coaches better understand how to work with sexual assault allegations, investigations and related situations.

In front of an auditorium of his peers, will Briles show remorse? Will he share what went wrong and how he should have handled things? We’ll find out Tuesday.

(Photo by LM Otero / Associated Press)