After reading and watching reports from the Wall Street Journal and 60 Minutes Sports about how Baylor University handled sexual-assault cases, Dallas-based radio host Norm Hitzges for KTCK-AM 1310 (The Ticket), a 30-year Dallas radio veteran, offered this explosive reaction on The Norm and D Invasion with co-host Donovan Lewis on Tuesday morning.

Norm Hitzges: I wanted to discuss with you guys this Baylor situation.

We knew it was all going to come out someday. It was a matter of time.

You can't have 20-25-30 people know what's going on, and then their wives and their husbands know what's going on, and then an investigative law firm know what's going on without it eventually coming out.

This is something Baylor tried mightily to prevent. And now we understand why that attempt was so mightily pursued by Baylor.

This situation is disgusting. One of their regents called it "horrifying" and "painful." Horrifying's the better word there.

Some board of regents members talked to the Wall Street Journal and the investigation came out Friday. These are numbers. When we use these numbers, realize these are people. These are people.

One of the most stunning things I've ever seen on television was a person who was in the room as we drone-bombed the location in Iraq - a wrong location - and he talked about watching the bombs hit a building and saying, "And I just watched the bodies fly like ragdolls." And then the next day they find out a wrong place had been bombed.

These are numbers. Sadly, numbers do not carry faces unless we put them on the numbers. Seventeen sexual-assault or domestic-violence occurrences involving 19 Baylor football players and including an alleged four gang rapes.

I'm going to give you a minute to put faces on those victims.

I'm going to give you a minute to consider what those victims told their parents. Or did they?

Told their friends. Or did they?

Told no one because they were frightened.

Told no one because at Baylor, apparently, it often didn't matter if you told anyone. In at least one case now, we are being told that [former Baylor football coach] Art Briles knew of an alleged incident and did not alert police, did not contact the school's judicial affairs staff and did not contact the Title IX office in charge of coordinating the school's response to sexual violence.

A person in charge of this is pressed by a report, Armen Keteiyan, who asks why a complainant's approach to the school was not responded to. The person said, 'Well we eventually did respond.'

The response came more than a year later.

Put a face on that person. Put a face on that year. Put a face on her walking on campus. Put a face on her seeing the person or persons involved. Put a face on that.

Art Briles, according to this report, appeared before the regents and was so upset he was crying before the board of regents a couple of days before the arrangements were made for Briles to leave the school with enough money in hand to run several third-world nations for a year.

Art Briles said, 'I delegated down. I know I shouldn't have. I had a system where I was the last to know, and I should have been the first to know.'

That's more bullsh-- than I can get my mind around.

In college football, the head coach knows everything. He knows everything. Or he has a person right next to him who knows everything: the menu for team dinners, who is the bus company that's taking us. College coaches do not live on the 19th floor of a building with no one else on the floor.

Art Briles, I feel fairly safe in saying, is simply, flatly lying to us about this. This is ridiculous to suggest he would be the last to know. Does anybody think Nick Saban is the last to know? Does anybody think Chad Morris is the last to know? Does anybody think Seth Littrell is the last to know? Or Gary Patterson? Or Urban Meyer?

Art Briles was the last to know? Everybody believing that, including the people running Baylor, please hold up your hand.

Donovan Lewis: Because you can go to the high school and realize the coach is always the first to know. They know everything.

Hitzges: Everything.

Now, is some of it on the record? No. But do they know? Of course. Of course they know.

And remember: This is the same baloney of when they brought the kid who had all the problems at Boise to campus.

'Oh I didn't know. I didn't know he was a predator.'

Wait a minute. Boise kicked him off the club? Kicked him out of school? And you didn't know? Why didn't you know?

Or didn't you want to know?

Back in Watergate, they had a wonderful phrase for President Nixon. It was called "plausible deniability." What that meant was we could throw that guy over board, and that guy overboard, and those three people overboard, and her overboard, and it never got to the president.

It's the Sgt. Schultz reaction. 'I know nothing. I know nothing.'

Art Briles first tried to tell us he did nothing wrong. What do we now know that statement is? We now that's a lie.

But I'm not stopping at Art Briles. Let's in fact inspect his statement. 'I had a system where I was the last to know, and I should have been the first to know.' Well that means somewhere up the ladder they knew but didn't tell Art? Are we led to believe that the entire staff, which was kept on a Baylor, also did not know? Did all of them have plausible deniability? Did nobody on the football staff know that players were beating up women and raping them?

Nobody knew? Nobody knew? They all keep the jobs. Nobody knew?

Are we to believe that?

Lewis: You can't even believe that because of his statement. If he's the last to know, then everyone knew before him.

Hitzges: I agree.

Let's go further.

Art Briles did not comment in the Wall Street Journal. But his attorney, Ernest Cannon did. Now, believe me, attorneys have to defend people, I understand that. Sometimes it becomes a little unsafe. But Mr. Cannon suggested that the regents talking about this were violating the terms of Art Briles' settlement with the school.

What were the terms?

'Don't you tell anybody now!'

Let me ask you something: Wasn't that the terms of the domestic violence? Wasn't that the terms of the sexual assaults?

'Don't you tell anybody now!'

This has been the terms for five years at Baylor.

'Don't you tell anybody now!'

Don't investigate. Don't respond.

For God's sake, take down the football program. We were a piece of crap for decades. We're finally winning and we don't give a damn who or what we're winning with.

Now let me go a little further. These regents talked to the Wall Street Journal. My questions is when did they know? Board of regents know. Unless I missed my guess, their board of regents is like loads of other boards of regents in America. They're made up of powerful, influential, connected people.

Nobody from the police department called and said, 'Hey, Phil, you've gotta know what's going on here?' That never happened at Baylor?

Baylor needs to clean house. And I mean clean house.

The people on the board of regents who knew this directly or indirectly should resign.

I'm sorry, maybe I'm sweeping out some people that didn't know, but the whole football staff should be fired.

If they didn't know this was going on for four years, if they didn't know - or is it that they knew and they didn't care? Is that it?

Let's go a little further.

How about the Baylor security people? How about the Waco police force? How about Tallahassee, which we found worked for years to cover up wrongdoings by Florida State players?

There is a web of silence in cities, and sadly college football cities, most of them.

'Don't rock the boat'.

'OK, we've got a few rapists on the club? Shhhhh.'

'We've got a few people beating women on the club? Shhhhh.'

'We're winning. We're winning. Don't disturb that. Tell them not to file. Make it difficult on them. Don't respond to them.

'But, Lord, just don't let the public know what is going on just below the surface of this program.'

There's a day coming here. Last Wednesday, the federales [referring to the U.S. Department of Education] announced they're investigating Baylor.

Good. Good.

This is going to be very hard on that institution. There are some good people there. I'm convinced of that. Some good people who didn't want this to happen.

But there's a day of reckoning coming. Because the feds are now in here and the NCAA is now in here. And don't for a minute think that the NCAA might not come down on this with both feet.

This is a tee-ball for the NCAA. It's a tee-ball.

Just like SMU was a tee-ball.

I'm not saying they're going to get the death penalty. But this is a tee-ball.

Did the school cover it up? Did the athletic director cover it up? Did the coach cover it up? Did the staff cover it up? Did security cover it up? Did Waco police cover it up?

This is a tee-ball. It's a freaking tee-ball.

How about three years, nothing. No bowl, nothing. And you lose eight football scholarships a year? By then end of those three years, you're down to 61 scholarships. And after the three years, 10 years' probation where if you do something wrong, if you thought that was bad punishment, then you don't know what bad punishment is.

But somebody's got to stop this. And it's obvious the Baylor staff didn't want to stop it. It's obvious the Baylor president didn't want to stop it. It's obvious that security and police and board of regents didn't stop it.

Well you know what? There are two institutions in here now who can stop it. And that's the feds and the NCAA.

This is unconscionable.

For it to happen, it happens to human beings. People do wrong things.

But then for people in power to say, 'Shhhhhh. Don't talk about the wrong thing. We're winning,' that's the most unconscionable thing you can imagine.

And I just leave you with this one thought:

When you turn this story over in your mind, put faces on the numbers. Put faces on the woman who was hit. Put faces on the woman who was raped. Put faces on them. Put identities with them. Put yourself in their mind. 'I filed a complaint. Nobody called me. Nobody cares. Nobody cares that I was beaten up. Nobody cares that I was raped.'

Sorry. That shouldn't happen anyplace to anyone.

And whatever's coming for Baylor, Baylor begged for it.