OK. I'mma try to keep this thread open. See how that goes. Riley did talk about the racist video.
Blackface video?
"Had a chance to talk to a number of our players. One, I’m proud of them. That’s part of coming to college is learning to speak for yourself and learning to weigh in on values. That’s part of being an American citizen and part of growing up. I think our guys have done a great job. I encourage them to not be afraid to speak their mind. There’s real issues out there and these are going to be part of the guys that are going to be handling these issues as they grow up in that generation. You always want to see it get better and I think we’ve got some guys on our team that are absolutely going to make this place better.
"As far as my reactions to it, it’s sickening. It’s … you hate it. You just do on every level. The one thing I know and I don’t know if I would have enough of an appreciation for this had I not been here two or three years ago when we had a similar incident is I’ve seen this university community, players on our team, staff members, athletic administration, I’ve seen people that have taken a situation like this that is ugly and turn it into a beautiful thing. The changes on our campus since the SAE event three years ago, I don’t know that they would’ve happened as fast and as aggressively had that not happened. There was so many positives that stemmed from that that I was just proud of the way Bob, our players, and not just football — the athletic community, the entire campus, responded to that and handled that. It really felt like in a lot of ways to me and I was the new guy at that point but you could really kind of feel it bring everybody closer together and raised awareness. It became a positive.
"So I’m very confident that everybody involved is going to work hard to make this happen the same way where change continues to happen and we all continue to work together. We’re here to support our players. I know it puts the University in a difficult situation but I know President Gallogly and everybody else will be behind all of our students and there to support them and there to help and we want to do that as well."
Blackface video?
"Had a chance to talk to a number of our players. One, I’m proud of them. That’s part of coming to college is learning to speak for yourself and learning to weigh in on values. That’s part of being an American citizen and part of growing up. I think our guys have done a great job. I encourage them to not be afraid to speak their mind. There’s real issues out there and these are going to be part of the guys that are going to be handling these issues as they grow up in that generation. You always want to see it get better and I think we’ve got some guys on our team that are absolutely going to make this place better.
"As far as my reactions to it, it’s sickening. It’s … you hate it. You just do on every level. The one thing I know and I don’t know if I would have enough of an appreciation for this had I not been here two or three years ago when we had a similar incident is I’ve seen this university community, players on our team, staff members, athletic administration, I’ve seen people that have taken a situation like this that is ugly and turn it into a beautiful thing. The changes on our campus since the SAE event three years ago, I don’t know that they would’ve happened as fast and as aggressively had that not happened. There was so many positives that stemmed from that that I was just proud of the way Bob, our players, and not just football — the athletic community, the entire campus, responded to that and handled that. It really felt like in a lot of ways to me and I was the new guy at that point but you could really kind of feel it bring everybody closer together and raised awareness. It became a positive.
"So I’m very confident that everybody involved is going to work hard to make this happen the same way where change continues to happen and we all continue to work together. We’re here to support our players. I know it puts the University in a difficult situation but I know President Gallogly and everybody else will be behind all of our students and there to support them and there to help and we want to do that as well."
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