Oklahoma coach Cale Gundy resigns after using ‘shameful’ word in team meeting

Oklahoma Sooners assistant soccer coach Cale Gundy has resigned from his place after he used a “shameful” phrase throughout a group assembly.

The 50-year-old, whose brother Mike Gundy is the pinnacle coach at rival Oklahoma State, launched a prolonged assertion on social media Sunday evening, asserting his resignation and apologizing for utilizing the phrase, which he says he learn off of a participant’s iPad.

“I owe it to Sooner Nation to be clear about what led to this resolution: Final week, throughout a movie session, I instructed my gamers to take notes,” the assertion learn.

“I observed a participant was distracted and picked up his iPad and skim aloud the phrases that had been written on his display screen. The phrases displayed had nothing to do with soccer. One specific phrase that I ought to by no means — beneath any circumstance — have uttered was displayed on that display screen. Within the second, I didn’t even notice what I used to be studying and, as quickly as I did, I used to be horrified.

“I need to be very clear: the phrases I learn aloud from that display screen weren’t my phrases. What I mentioned was not malicious; it wasn’t even intentional. Nonetheless, I’m mature sufficient to know that the phrase I mentioned was shameful and hurtful, irrespective of my intentions.”

Earlier than his resignation, Gundy had been working because the large receivers coach and assistant head coach. L’Damian Washington will take over his place.

It stays unclear precisely what phrase was mentioned, although former Sooners operating again Joe Mixon appeared to indicate that it had racial undertones. Mixon launched an announcement defending Gundy after his resignation:

“I do know racists, I’ve witnessed each apparent and discreet types of racism and have identified and detested much more precise racist[s],” Mixon’s assertion wrote. “Coach Gundy is the farthest factor from any such individual. I spent on daily basis for the 1,000 days I used to be in Norman with him, and I by no means noticed something that may lead anybody to imagine this or suppose this.”