It seems Baylor may or may not have taken a step this week toward attempting to save face as an ongoing major sexual assault scandal continues to rock the campus. 

Chip Brown of hornsdigest.com reported Tuesday the school’s board of regents fired Baylor president Kenneth Starr as a result of how the school has handled sexual assault cases against five Baylor football players.

Two of those players, Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwuachu, were convicted of sexual assault in 2015.

Baylor, however, released a statement soon after saying it wouldn’t respond to the rumors or reports until official news is available. They expect an announcement on June 3.

The school’s board is reviewing findings of an investigation compiled by law firm Pepper Hamilton into the school’s response into the sexual assault allegations.

Meanwhile, an ESPN report last week shed light on possible unknown allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence against Baylor football players, where some school officials and coaches knew about the incidents.

According to the story, police in one 2011 case “took extraordinary steps” to keep that case from public view, with it being placed in a locked office.

All of this adds to the distressing tale of a successful football program that’s seemingly had a remarkable lack of institutional control.

As sports fans and media members wait to discover the fate of current Baylor head football coach Art Briles, the fact remains he should have taken a much more prominent role in addressing these allegations.

What’s worse is just how seemingly ignorant Briles has been to the whole situation, even after the reports of sexual assaults against his players became public.

Briles may have known about certain allegations, as was reported by ESPN, but tragically did little to nothing about it.

While the investigation into this scandal continues, it’s hard to imagine Baylor continuing to stay put with a head football coach who’s allowed a pall to be cast on the school.

If firing Briles is the way Baylor chooses to go, I will be one of many who advocate for them to take that path.

Briles must be fired. There isn’t a scenario that would allow him to stay without the school taking any sort of backlash or protest from the student body.

Perhaps more importantly, we in the media should also focus on how Baylor plans to address helping the current victims who have been violated as part of this entire scandal.

Victims who have had their voices stifled by a university that’s put athletics and revenue before women’s rights.

Sadly, they have in effect become victims for a second time, hurt by a group of people who should have been looking out for their well being.

People who should have taken them seriously and who should have done the right thing and stepped up to the plate and adequately investigated those allegations.

Baylor should step up and assist those victims whom it failed to help the first time around.

Doing so would be a start for the school to begin writing the final chapters to a shameful saga in its history.