Bear Trap: Why Lives and Reputations Were Ruined so a University Could Demonstrate Institutional Control

What do you get when you cross the controlling leader of a Power 5 conference school hell bent on transforming it into an elite Baptist University, the crushing pressure of over $200 million in bond debt to get there, a football team and its Coach striving to go from the Conference doormat to top national rankings, and a Conference Commissioner (and host of jealous Presidents from the other conference schools) withholding television revenues from Baptist University to force it into getting “institutional control” over alleged athlete-related sexual assaults? A “Bear Trap.”