“All I can say is that the matter has been satisfactorily resolved.”

Ken Starr has plenty of experience in knowing how to time the release of unflattering news, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that an announcement of a settlement of a claim against Baylor arising out of a student being sexually assaulted by Bears football player Sam Ukwuachu was essentially buried in an avalanche of bowl game news.

But I don’t think you really even need to reflect on the timing of that release to recognize how troublesome the matter was for Starr and his school.  That this one was settled to the apparent satisfaction of the girl’s lawyer without even having to file a lawsuit should speak volumes about Baylor’s culpability.

I guess Starr didn’t want the titillating equivalent of a special prosecutor’s report to sully Baylor’s name.