It has been a broken record in our nation.

A college university having sexual assault cases on campus has been a recurring theme. Perhaps the most scrutinized school for these type of incidents as of late is located in Waco, Texas.

Baylor University, once a prominent powerhouse football program and renowned campus, now continues to throw themselves into more and more controversy. Since 2015, the University has been under a great deal of fire for their handling of complaints issued by female students on the campus.

Several of them said they were sexually assaulted by members of the football team. In early August of last year, the McLennan district attorney office in Waco asked Baylor for full access to an investigation of the university’s handling of allegations of sexual assault committed by students, which included members of the Baylor football team.

According to ESPN, The Pepper Hamilton law firm was hired by the university to assess the complaints that were brought up about the handling of the sexual assault complaints. During this investigation they revealed clear failures in the way that Baylor handled these sexual assault complaints and other examples of violence towards female students on campus. This included football players.

Head of football operations Colin Shillinglaw and assistant athletic director Tom Hill were fired in May following the report filed by the law firm.

Further investigation conducted by Pepper Hamilton resulted in the eventual firing of head football coach Art Briles, the demotion and departure of University President Ken Starr, and the resignation of athletic director Ian McCaw.

For the most part the incident was left at a standstill after staff changes. Supporters of Briles and other assistant coaches demanded the full report of the investigation from the university, but they received no such thing. The hope was that the full report would somehow manage to exonerate the coaches from the punishment they had received.

Then, a few days ago, it was discovered that there was even more to this incident than previously discovered. Yet another storm of filth and corruption was arising at Baylor University and the football program.

Three officials on the university’s board of regents discovered that Briles and assistant coaches had intervened in the discipline of football players, attempting to get them legal representation in order to keep their cases under wraps. This was revealed by a series of text messages and emails released by the regent officials.

According to ESPN, The regents’ response alleges Briles and his coaching staff created a disciplinary “black hole” into “which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared.”

One of the clearest examples and perhaps the most disgusting was a multiple-suspect sexual assault case committed by members of the football team. This case surfaced in 2013. A female student athlete made the claim, and gave names of the players to a team assistant.

The assistant reportedly described the accusations as being in a “gray area” according to ESPN. The report by Pepper Hamilton revealed that none, including Briles, notified any type of law enforcement or judicial affairs department in any way.

Briles and other coaches claimed that the reason they did not report anything about the gang-rape incident was due to the fact that the university had not given them any instructions on what to do. It was then discovered on that same day that the incident took place that Briles had received a forwarded email message notifying him that a player’s allegations had been cleared.

The whole Baylor program has painted a picture for the rest of the nation of the corruption that has gone on there for the past five years. The absolute mess that has taken place does not seem to stop.

The fact of the matter is that collegiate athletics officials, especially at the highest-class universities all over the country, have covered up the dark realities of what their players have been doing. After all, they don’t want their university to be looked at in a negative way.

Going forward, it should be expected that more university and football team officials may end up losing their jobs. As this investigation continues to reveal more and more dirt on the Baylor program, the legacy of Briles and this university will likely be tarnished more as time goes on.