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Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw was hired to the same position at Liberty on Monday.None of the senior athletic department officials were aware that McCaw had been hired until he walked through the door of his introductory news conference, a source told ESPNs Brett McMurphy.My vision for Liberty is to position it as a pre-eminent Christian athletic program in America and garner the same type of appeal among the Christian community as Notre Dame achieves among the Catholic community and BYU garners from the Mormons, McCaw said in a statement.McCaw resigned at Baylor on May 30, four days after the university sanctioned him and placed him on probation. Baylor officials also suspended and then fired football coach Art Briles and demoted president Kenneth Starr, who later resigned as Baylors chancellor and retired as a law school professor. McCaws resignation at Baylor was in response to scathing findings by the law firm Pepper Hamilton, which had been hired to investigate the schools handling of allegations of sexual assaults by students, including many football players.The Liberty news release announcing McCaws hiring touted the five national championships and 58 Big 12 titles Baylor won in his tenure. Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. said McCaws experience made him the right candidate for the job.Ians success really speaks for itself, Falwell said in a statement. You look at what Baylor was able to do during his tenure. It fits perfectly with where we see our sports programs going. This is an exciting time for us.McCaw replaces Jeff Barber, who resigned abruptly on Nov. 18.McCaw, who had served as Baylors athletics director since 2003, is at the center of an ongoing dispute between Briles assistant coaches and the universitys Board of Regents. In a news release earlier this month, Baylors regents revealed that a female athlete told a former volleyball coach that she had been sexually assaulted by five football players approximately one year earlier. The regents said the woman provided the football players names to her coach.According to the release, the volleyball coach immediately reported the assault to McCaw, Briles and a former assistant athletics director. According to the regents, none of them reported the alleged incident to Baylors judicial affairs office or anyone outside of athletics.Baylors assistant football coaches, including Briles son, Kendal, and son-in-law, Jeff Lebby, disputed the allegations in a statement released on Twitter. According to the assistant football coaches statement, McCaw instructed the head coach to report the incident to Baylors office of judicial affairs, which the coach did. The assistant coaches claimed Briles wasnt made aware of the incident until nine months after it allegedly occurred.According to the assistant coaches statement, the volleyball coach informed Briles that he reported the incident to McCaw and judicial affairs. The statement said, Briles told [the victims coach] to report it to the police and prosecute the players if there was any wrongdoing.McCaw hasnt responded to multiple telephone calls and texts from ESPN.Libertys 2017 football season will open at Baylor.ESPNs Mark Schlabach and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Bill Lee Jersey . -- If Henry Burris has his way, he will be the starting quarterback to lead the Hamilton Tiger-Cats back to the Grey Cup next year. Mike Shawaryn Jersey . He was followed closely by David Clarkson, donning red, seconds later. 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METAIRIE, La. -- James Laurinaitis expects to be released from the New Orleans Saints injured reserve list soon, which will free him to sign with other teams, a league source confirmed.The news was first reported by NFL Networks Mike Garafolo.Laurinaitis, 29, was placed on IR two weeks ago with a quad injury -- which is not expected to be a long-term issue. The move was at least partly performance-related, since the Saints promoted veteran Craig Robertson into the starting middle linebacker spot while Laurinaitis was still playing through the injury.Laurinaitis had not missed a game -- and barely missed a snap -- during his first seven seasons with the St. Louis Rams, where he became the franchises all-time leading tackler with 852 before being released in February.He then signed a three-year deal with the Saints but started just three games with 17 tackles before suffering the quad injury in Week 3.Its definitely frustrating, Laurinaitis said last week after being placed on IR. You want to be out there and contribute with the guys any way possible. But I think my mindset now is just mentally staying engaged and just helping in any way, shape or form in the locker room.Wheen asked if he thinks the IR move was partly performance-related, Laurinaitis said, Im probably the wrong person to ask.dddddddddddd I think its probably a little bit of both.I know with the injuries that weve already had at linebacker they made a decision they thought the team needed to make, so you cant fault them for that, Laurinaitis said. And I dont know what their big picture of kind of the map of the squad is, but they did what was best for the team.Laurinaitis deal was worth $8.25 million, plus incentives. But nothing was guaranteed beyond this years $3.25 million in salary and bonuses.The Saints were hoping he would be a quarterback for their defense, which struggled last year with assignment and alignment errors. And he was a strong voice in the locker room who was voted as a team captain before the season.But Robertson, who began his career with the Cleveland Browns, has proved to be more effective in that role on the field. And the Saints have spent the majority of their time in three-safety, two-linebacker packages in recent weeks. ' ' '