For all intents and purposes, the very soul of two of the states’s largest public universities could be up for sale, all for the prospect of a winning football program.

According to multiple reports, University of Houston football coordinator Kendall Briles, who had been part of the Baylor University’s coaching staff during the school’s infamous sexual assault scandal in 2016, has been named as a possible candidate for Texas State’s vacant head coaching job.

Art Briles, K...