Former Oklahoma assistant football coach Cale Gundy read ‘racially charged word’ aloud multiple times, coach Brent Venables says

A day after Oklahoma assistant football coach Cale Gundy resigned from the Sooners, saying he inadvertently read aloud “a word that I should never — under any circumstance — have uttered” off the display of a participant’s iPad throughout a movie session, head coach Brent Venables issued a brand new assertion saying Gundy’s assertion did not inform your complete story.

“Coach Gundy resigned from the program because he knows what he did was wrong,” Venables stated Monday. “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. He knows our goals for excellence and that coaches have special responsibilities to set an example.”

Gundy, 50, was the longest-serving football coach within the Big 12, forward of his brother, Mike, the Oklahoma State coach. He spent 16 years because the operating backs coach, adopted by seven extra teaching inside receivers, and was OU’s assistant head coach. His resignation was adopted by a present of help on social media from present and former gamers together with Joe Mixon and Adrian Peterson.

“As painful as it has been dealing with Coach Gundy resigning from the program, it doesn’t touch the experience of pain felt by a room full of young men I am charged to protect, lead and love,” Venables’ assertion read.

Gundy introduced his resignation Sunday evening, saying he observed {that a} participant, who was imagined to be taking notes throughout a movie session, was distracted and so he picked up the participant’s iPad and read the phrases on the display, together with the unspecified time period.

“The unfortunate reality is that someone in my position can cause harm without ever meaning to do so,” Gundy wrote in a press release posted to his Twitter account. “In that circumstance, a man of character accepts accountability. I take responsibility for this mistake. I apologize.”

Gundy stated that within the second he “did not even realize” what he was studying and, as quickly as he did, “I was horrified.”

“I want to be very clear: the words I read aloud from that screen were not my words. What I said was not malicious; it wasn’t even intentional,” Gundy wrote. “Still, I am mature enough to know that the word I said was shameful and hurtful, no matter my intentions.”

Venables reiterated Monday that Gundy’s resignation was vital.

“He also knows that, while he will always be a part of the OU family, that his words affected many of us and did not represent the principles of our university,” Venables stated. “Again, his resignation was the right thing to do, and we will move forward positively.”