UPDATE (May 26, 11 a.m.): Baylor has reportedly fired head football coach Art Briles.

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Regardless of whether Ken Starr is gone now or by Baylor's self-imposed deadline of June 3, the image of an out-of-control football program will remain.

Removing one employee, even if that person is Baylor's president and chancellor, doesn't address the root problem of sexual assault and violence that has plagued the university.

Football players Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwuachu were convicted of separate sexual assaults since 2014. All-time school sack leader Shawn Oakman is facing a sexual assault charge. Two more football players were investigated by police over a sexual assault charge with one eventually expelled from the university, according to an ESPN report.

More allegations of violence against women surfaced last week.

Football coach Art Briles certainly isn't responsible for how Baylor as a university treated women reporting sexual assault after the fact or a detached public response. Nor is Briles or any other football coach fully responsible for the conduct of an entire roster.

But football coaches are responsible for the culture of their team and the character of the players they recruit. They and their staff should know the pertinent details of the players' lives once they reach campus. Briles made nearly $6 million in 2014, according to Baylor tax forms, and that kind of compensation is accompanied by accountability.

Somewhere, there was a major breakdown at Baylor. And that's assuming no more victims come forward and no more incidents are unearthed, which seems doubtful.

Baylor had benefited from being a small church-affiliated school halfway between Dallas and Austin. At his most engaging, Briles looks and sounds like a Friday Night Lights casting call. He and an innovative spread offense approach gave a perennial loser two Big 12 titles, a Heisman winner and nearly a berth in the first College Football Playoff.

It was very soft focus.

Now the reality is much different despite claims by Baylor fans that the school is being unfairly targeted by the media, citing problems elsewhere.

When Briles appears at Big 12 media days less than two months from now, the focus will be on what is happening within the program, not the 50 wins in the last five years or the outlook for 2016.

David Ridpath, a national expert on sports administration and business professor at Ohio University, said he envisions pointed questions about what Briles knew and when he knew it.

Under Starr, Baylor has primarily used prepared statements and public letters to communicate to media and concerned alumni. At times, Briles has seemed tone deaf, talking about campus assaults as if they might be sprained ACLs.

Good luck staying strictly on football in front of 500 media July 18 and 19 at the Dallas Omni Hotel, even if that is the legal advice from Baylor counsel.

Expect pretty much every story about Baylor and every football broadcast going forward to mention the sexual assault issue on campus until Briles addresses it.

If Starr is gone, then Briles will have a new boss, almost certainly with a zero-tolerance approach.

"I think Art Briles has a lot to answer for," Ridpath said. "He's in charge of that program, just as Ken Starr is in charge of that university. I think what's been coming out is pretty disturbing.

"If Art Briles feels he's been wrongly accused, he needs to speak up in my opinion."

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