On Friday evening, Mount Vernon ISD announced its incoming head football coach: Art Briles, the former Baylor head coach who was dismissed from the university in 2016, after Texas Monthly reported on his program’s history of recruiting players who would later be arrested for or convicted of sexual assault. The job in Mount Vernon, a North Texas town of fewer than 2,700 whose football team plays division 3A ball, is the first one for Briles in North America since his dismissal from Baylor. He’s currently the head coach of Guelfi Firenze, a semi-pro team in Italy’s Federazione Italiana di American Football, after having offers rescinded, following public outcry, to serve as an assistant for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League and as the offensive coordinator at…View Original PostThe post Watch the Moment Mount Vernon Learned Art Briles Would Be Its Next Head Coach appeared first on Texas Monthly.