{"id":7934,"date":"2017-03-10T01:38:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T06:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2017-03-10T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T11:40:15","slug":"mulkey-apologizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/mulkey-apologizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor coach apologizes for comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ERYKAH DAVENPORT<\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2017, a lawsuit\u00a0was filed by a former student that attended Baylor University. Allegedly, 31 different Baylor football players committed 52 &#8220;acts of rape&#8221; between 2011 and 2014, which was reported by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/news\/new-lawsuit-alleges-52-acts-of-rape-by-31-baylor-players-sex-used-to-sell-recruits\/\">CBS Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining a well-deserved win 500 over Texas Tech, Baylor women&#8217;s basketball coach Kim Mulkey made a comment that caused tremendous controversy. Reported by John Elizondo of ABC, Mulkey said this to the crowd in attendance at the Ferrell Center following Baylor&#8217;s win over Texas Tech: \u201cIf someone around you ever says I\u2019ll never send my daughter to Baylor, you knock them right in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She has recently released an apology after comments made last week regarding the school&#8217;s sexual assault scandal.\u00a0According to ESPN, Mulkey stated, \u201cI&#8217;m sorry for those choice of words, timing wasn&#8217;t good, poor analogy as well, because if you know me, I&#8217;m an emotional person, coached and coached with emotion.\u00a0It all got the best of me, because I love this place. A lot of bad things happened here, but I&#8217;ve always thought about the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mulkey previously expressed regret for those comments in an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/womens-college-basketball\/story\/_\/id\/18774890\/kim-mulkey-baylor-bears-expresses-regret-comment\">Mechelle Voepel<\/a>\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/espnw.com\">espnW.com<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate that I used the remark about punching them in the face,&#8221; Mulkey said. &#8220;That was not literal. I was trying to make a point, to be firm in what you are saying back at them. I&#8217;m not a violent person. I apologize for the very poor choice of words.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By ERYKAH DAVENPORT Back in January 2017, a lawsuit\u00a0was filed by a former student that attended Baylor University. Allegedly, 31 different Baylor football players committed 52 &#8220;acts of rape&#8221; between 2011 and 2014, which was reported by\u00a0CBS Sports. After gaining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/mulkey-apologizes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[103,36],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erykah-davenport","tag-social-issues","tag-sports-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}