Did a former Baylor football coach allegedly selling the program on sex with white women pave the way for the squad to be engulfed in a disturbing culture of sexual assault?

That's one of the sticking questions following Wednesday's arrest of former Baylor tight end Tre'von Armstead, who was indicted by a Texas grand jury on three counts of sexual assault after being accused of gang-raping a woman with a teammate back in April 2013, as reported by the Dallas News.

Armstead's bail is set at $150,000. Armstead's former teammate, Shamycheal Chatman, was the other Baylor player allegedly involved in the gang-rape, but hasn't been arrested as of yesterday.

"This is a result of newly discovered evidence and continued investigation," McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna told the newspaper late Wednesday about Armstead's arrest in Texas.

The newspaper additionally reported that at least 19 Baylor football players have been accused of sexual or physical assault since 2011. It added that the alleged victim, whose identity is being kept anonymous, filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school this past January, shockingly claiming that 31 Baylor football players committed 52 rape acts from 2011 to 2014. 

Within that lawsuit, former Bears assistant coach, Kendal Briles, is accused of selling the school's gridiron program on sex, allegedly telling interested high school recruits, "Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players," as reported by the Daily Mail.

That being said, Florida Atlantic University, which hired Briles as the football team's new offensive coordinator, announced that it couldn't pinpoint anything damaging about him in relation to Baylor.

“We didn’t find anything that we would be concerned about at that time,” FAU president John Kelly told the Florida Sun Sentinel on Tuesday.

About the lawsuit against Baylor, Kelly added, “Until somebody comes up with some legal proof of something, we have nothing to work on. It’s a media story at this moment.”

In an unrelated incident, just last week in Las Vegas, Armstead was arrested on charges of domestic battery, resisting arrest and damaging a police vehicle, as reported by TMZ Sports.

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