The timeline of Art Briles' downfall at Baylor before his hire at Grambling State

More than five years after Baylor fired football coach Art Briles, following a scathing review by a law firm that investigated how the university and his football program responded to allegations of sexual assault against his players, he will return to a Division I team this coming season.

Briles, 66, was hired as Grambling State's new offensive coordinator on Thursday. Athletic director Trayvean Scott said he did his «homework» before approving new coach Hue Jackson's selection.

«I think [Briles] just wants to coach and lead men,» Scott told ESPN when asked specifically about what made him comfortable about hiring Briles when many other schools and organizations haven't been. «We're not talking about a perfect situation or devaluing things done in the past and how it has affected people. He's sympathetic and empathetic about what went on.»

Here's a look back at what transpired at Baylor during Briles' tenure, when a wave of sexual assault allegations against his players and «no culture of accountability for misconduct» — as an official investigation in his program put it — led to the dismissals of the school's most successful football coach, its athletic director and president.

Nov. 28, 2007: Baylor hires Briles, who was the head coach at Houston, to lead its program. He inherited a Bears team that had gone 35-101 in the Big 12 era, with zero bowl game appearances since 1994.

April 15, 2012: Football player Tevin Elliott rapes a female Baylor student outside an off-campus party in Waco, Texas. The student reports the assault to police and a sexual assault nurse later that morning. Another former Baylor student alleges being gang raped by 10 to 15 other football players at the same party. Elliott is suspended 12 days