Fired Baylor head football coach Art Briles is ripping his former employer, accusing the school of wrongful termination and indicating he has no interest in settling a federal lawsuit filed against him and the university by a woman who was raped by a football player.

In a motion filed Thursday, Briles said he wants a judge to assign him new counsel and his personal attorney, Ernest Cannon, said the school was scapegoating the coach for its failings in handling allegations of sexual assault.

“The conclusion is inescapable that the motive of Baylor and the Board of Regents was to use its head football coach and the Baylor athletic department as a camouflage to disguise and distract from its own institutional failure to comply” with federal civil-rights protections, Cannon wrote to Baylor’s attorneys in the latest development in the scandal.

He also demanded that Baylor “immediately turn over to me the entire contents of each and every one of their litigation files” — including information given to the Pepper Hamilton law firm that investigated Baylor’s response to assault allegations in recent years.

Briles was named with Baylor as a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed in March by former Baylor student Jasmin Hernandez, who was raped in 2012 by a player who later was convicted and sent to prison.

Hernandez’s lawsuit claims Baylor knew former player Tevin Elliott had a history of assaults, failed to protect her and others who were attacked, and ignored her pleas when she sought help.

Baylor attorneys last week told the court the defendants were seeking to settle with Hernandez.

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