Baylor Law School Dean's Husband Injects A Little Casual Racism Into The Party

This couple is competing for worst headline!

We last checked in on Baylor Associate Dean Leah Witcher Jackson Teague in February, when she was telling students impacted by the “Winterpocalypse” that stripped millions of Texans of power and, by extension, internet access, that they had better show up for virtual class or be marked with unexcused absences. Ultimately, the law school reversed course and canceled classes “[i]n light of the university’s decision.” You know things have gotten real when you’re making worse decisions than the Baylor University administration.

Now it’s her husband’s turn to grab the spotlight! After Baylor won the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament — a troubling outcome in itself since the program literally covered up a murder and suffered no serious competitive consequences over it — Teague’s husband Ted, the GM of the Allen Samuels dealership in Waco, offered to donate a custom Jeep to head coach Scott Drew. Do car giveaways to already highly compensated coaches seem problematic in a sports regime that strips players of any access to pay for their labor? Go back to Russia, you commie! Or, in this case, go back to the Supreme Court, which looks poised to finally break up the NCAA’s disgraceful free labor profit engine.

But Scott Drew didn’t end up accepting the Jeep, because Ted Teague offered some commentary along with the keys.

During the interview, however, Teague made a comment about Drew being able to use the Jeep to help with recruiting, saying Drew could “enjoy it and he’ll use it to recruit and pull some people out of the hood.” The interview was conducted by KWTX in Waco on Tuesday, and was shared on the Baylor subreddit.

Welp.

Yesterday afternoon, Baylor’s Athletic Director, Mack Rhodes sent out a statement declining to accept the vehicle:

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Now, it’s not necessarily fair to tag a law professor with the views of a life partner, but one has to wonder after the tone-deaf response to the suffering of students during the winter power outage if this might just be a couple that has some general empathy issues.

Earlier: Law School Displays Gross Lack Of Empathy During Texas Winterpocalypse


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