Oklahoma assistant Cale Gundy resigned for reading aloud ‘shameful’ language
He said he used the offending word during a recent film session with players
Gundy said he didn’t mean to say the word maliciously or even intentionally
He claimed he was reading the word aloud off a distracted player’s iPad
Head coach Brent Venables said he repeatedly read the ‘racially charged’ term
In a clarifying statement, Venables said Gundy ‘knows what he did was wrong’
Gundy’s daughter Cat is now accusing Venables of silencing witness players
In a since-deleted tweet, she said players were told to stay quiet about the truth
Oklahoma head football coach Brent Venables told his players to ‘keep their mouths shut about what really happened’ to cause long-time Sooners assistant Cale Gundy to resign on Sunday, according to a since-deleted tweet by the outgoing coach’s daughter.
‘The truth with always come to fruition’ Cale’s daughter Cat wrote in response to Venables on Monday, ‘it’s only a matter of time.’
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Cat was responding to a statement from Venables, accusing her father of repeatedly using a ‘racially charged’ word during a film session with players.
A day earlier, Cale announced his resignation in a social media post, saying just that he used ‘shameful’ language with players, but cautioning that the offending word ‘was not malicious; it wasn’t it even intentional.’
The incident took place during a recent film session when the assistant coach found one Sooners player distracted and looking at his iPad, Cale said in his statement. He then picked up the device and read a word off the screen that he now acknowledges he ‘should never – under any circumstance – have uttered.’
Cale claimed he was ‘horrified’ upon realizing what he’d said unintentionally, but Venables gave a differing account, explaining that the assistant repeated the word.
‘Coach Gundy resigned from the program because he knows what he did was wrong,’ Venables said in his second statement on Gundy’s exit. ‘He chose to read aloud to his players, not once but multiple times, a racially charged word that is objectionable to everyone, and does not reflect the attitude and values of our university or our football program.
‘This is not acceptable. Period. Coach Gundy did the right thing in resigning.’
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