Southern Miss coach trying to create Baby Baylor

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Obviously that came on top of this:

Jay Hopson sounds like he sucks talk not going away

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Jay Hopson likes rape.

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The hiring and recruiting practices of Southern Miss head football coach Jay Hopson are under scrutiny this week, days after he attempted and failed to hire disgraced former Baylor coach Art Briles to be his offensive coordinator.

The Briles engagement is not the first time Hopson and his staff acted unilaterally in an attempt to bring someone with a problematic past to campus without informing the school’s leadership.

Last month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter, Hopson and his staff tried to add junior college transfer Charles West, who had previously been accused of raping two women at knifepoint at his home in separate incidents in 2015. The people were not authorized to speak about the situation publicly because of the sensitivity of the subject.

The sexual assault cases against West fell apart after both women were “having a hard time testifying in front of her attacker,” and declined to testify in a trial, Dallas County district attorney’s office spokeswoman Brittany Dunn told the Dallas Morning News in the summer of 2016. The criminal cases were downgraded to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; prosecutors and West agreed to plea deals in each case on July 25, 2016. In both, West pleaded guilty but received deferred adjudication probation.

According to two people with knowledge of the matter, Hopson did not notify Southern Miss of West’s past. West signed in early January and expected to enroll in classes beginning Jan. 24, the first day of full-term spring classes.

West was on campus in January looking for housing while waiting to be admitted to the school, those people said. It wasn’t until someone in the athletic department found the Dallas Morning News article detailing the sexual assault cases that West’s background was brought to light. Then West’s application was denied by the admissions office.

A Southern Miss team spokesman confirmed that West is not a student at the school but did not comment further.

West, who played running back at Garden City (Kan.) Community College the past two seasons, was named a National Junior College Athletic Association All-American at the end of the 2018 season. According to 247Sports.com and Rivals.com, Southern Miss was his only Division I offer, and his lead recruiter was Southern Miss recruiting coordinator Paul Gonnella. West rushed for 1,492 yards in 10 games in 2018, with two 200-yard rushing performances and nine games in which he ran for more than 100 yards.

West was a three-star prospect out of Coppell High School near Dallas who initially committed to BYU. He never enrolled after he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony, in February 2015.

The Southern Miss administration squashed the Briles hire on Wednesday morning, releasing a statement that said, “We have met with Art Briles regarding a position with the Southern Miss football program. Following that meeting, we informed him that he is not a candidate. The university will have no further comment on this matter.”

Hopson disagreed with his administration’s decision, pushing back on it publicly and reiterating that he believes Briles “deserves a second chance” because “personally he committed no crime,” despite the acknowledgment that “he may not have acted in the proper protocol” while at Baylor.

Under Briles’ watch, multiple football players committed sexual assault, and Briles and his assistants often downplayed the severity of the allegations to keep their players eligible or directly intervened in cases. Baylor football players were accused of at least 52 sexual assaults committed by 31 different players in five years, according to a lawsuit filed in 2017.

SBNation first reported and The Athletic has since confirmed that Hopson did not run the interview by university officials first.

Hopson’s previous tenure as a head coach at Alcorn State included recruiting a registered sex offender and a player who saw game action while awaiting rape charges.

Jamil Cooks had enrolled at Alcorn State after he was dismissed from the Air Force Academy. Midway through the 2014 season, ABC News reported that Cooks had to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life after a court martial panel convicted him of abusive sexual contact in 2013. Cooks pleaded guilty to unlawfully entering women’s dorm rooms at Air Force the week prior to the conviction.

Despite his status as a sex offender, there was no rule that prevented Cooks from playing at another university. His 11 sacks led the Braves in 2014, and his 14 tackles for loss were second on the team.

Last May, Jaborian “Tip” McKenzie accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to a charge of facilitation of aggravated rape, which brought a close to the rape case involving multiple Vanderbilt football players. McKenzie helped three teammates bring an unconscious female student into a dorm room where those three teammates subsequently raped the woman in June 2013.

According to reports, there was no evidence McKenzie — who was required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life — touched the woman while she was raped. He was standing next to his teammates as it happened, though. McKenzie and his three teammates were kicked off the Vanderbilt team on June 29, 2013.

On Sept. 7 of the same year, McKenzie — while facing rape charges — caught one pass for 4 yards and returned three kicks for 80 yards in Alcorn State’s 51-7 loss to Mississippi State. Less than a week later, McKenzie was removed from the team.

“Alcorn failed to sufficiently examine the allegations against McKenzie before allowing him to participate in our football program,” then-university president M. Christopher Brown said in a statement at that time. “In an effort to provide educational opportunities to a southwest Mississippi student, Alcorn State University made an error in judgment.”

Hopson told the Associated Press at the time: “We’ll just let the process take care of itself. And let the whole world figure out that this kid, from everything that I know, that this kid did absolutely nothing. So like I said, if somebody can tell me or show me where he did something, then I may sing a different song. But right now, from everything I know, everything that’s been shown to me through numerous phone calls and talking to many people involved in this case, I can’t find anything that says this kid is guilty.”

McKenzie later returned to the Alcorn State program and led the team in receptions as a senior in 2016. Last May, he was sentenced to 10 years’ probation as part of a plea deal after his testimony helped secure guilty verdicts for the three other players involved in the case. All three were sentenced to prison.

Hopson left Alcorn State to become the head coach at Southern Miss in January 2016. After posting an 15-11 record in his first two seasons, he was given a four-year extension last summer to keep him in Hattiesburg through January 2022.

Hopson’s contract at Southern Miss includes the following clause under potential reasons to terminate for cause:

“Engaging in conduct that: (i) violates widely-held community social values and morals, (ii) displays serious or continuous disregard for the character and mission of the University, or causes notorious and public scandal, and (iii) materially reduces the commercial value of Employee’s coaching services.”

 

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Deadspin picked it up, too.

https://deadspin.com/report-southern-miss-coach-who-wanted-to-hire-art-bril-1832448237

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Sounds like he thinks he’s the second coming of Christ and that he can redeem these guys by giving them “second chances.”  Total ego driven narcissist. 

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Southern MisstakesWereMade

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Truth don’t lie!

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This is what happens when you publically state your boss made a bad decision 

They release your file 

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Fuck Southern Miss