A Baylor football staffer “responsible for management of the public image of the program” — i.e., someone utterly failing at his job, even if the spree of players raping women on campus and the coaches and administrators covering up for them has made it impossible — has been arrested for allegedly choking a reporter.

On the field. After a game. In front of everybody.

According to KWTX in Waco, Baylor associate athletic director Heath Nielsen was arrested and charged with assault with bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor, in connection with an alleged incident on Nov. 5 — following the Bears’ 62-22 loss to TCU — in which Nielsen allegedly pushed a sportswriter and grabbed him by the throat.

An arrest warrant affidavit, obtained by KWTX, says Nielsen accosted James McBride, who covers Baylor sports for a community newspaper, as McBride was taking a photo with a player. Nielsen tried to chop McBride’s phone out of his hand, then grabbed him by the throat. The affidavit states: “McBride had visible scratches and complained of pain around his throat.”

McBride said Nielsen, a longtime communications operative in the athletic department, told him, “You’ll never f−−−ing work in this business again. You’re abusing your privileges on the field.”

Baylor has not commented on the incident, which might not rank as a priority for a football program — and university — that has become the poster subject for sexual violence and institutional callousness in college sports.

University regents said 17 women had reported domestic violence or sexual assaults that involved 19 football players since 2011, including four gang rapes, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the school is reviewing about 125 cases of sexual assault or harassment campus-wide, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Still, amid this cesspool, backers of the team continue to stump for former coach Art Briles, fired in May for his hush-’em-up role in the scandal, even selling merchandise with the #CAB hashtag (coach Art Briles) outside the stadium at home games.

Why? Baylor is 6-4.