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Sherrington: Baylor can't move on from scandal unless it fully comes clean

Every day at Baylor, it's another domino. The fallen include the president and chancellor, the athletic director, football coach and a couple of football staff members.

Who's next? Who's left?

Give Ken Starr this much: He's right when he says the school needs to tell us what it knows.

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Baylor is cleaning house, as it should, but it's hard to know just how far it should go based on the conclusions in the Pepper Hamilton report. The findings are short on specifics, at least publicly, and while that may be intended to protect the victims, it also casts a shadow over both the guilty and innocent. Names can be redacted; facts should be public.

The part of the report made public is only 13 pages, which is far short of the kind of detail necessary when justifying the sweeping changes taking place at Baylor. All of Art Briles' assistants are being painted with the same brush. In the interest of fairness, we should know who's guilty and who's not.

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Baylor also needs to come clean as to whether there were more victims than what's been reported.

Only when all the facts are out front -- and appropriate measures have been taken -- will Baylor be able to move on from this scandal.

For too long the university apparently got away with keeping criminal acts under wraps, with victims paying the price twice.

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Baylor should further demonstrate its good faith by showing the world not only what it's doing to rectify a horrific problem, but what prompted it to do so.

Twitter: @KSherringtonDMN