I’m sorry, but this is a bad take. I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of guys Scalley has and will recruit going forward are Christian. If they have even the slightest understanding of their own Christian faith, they are essentially required to forgive someone, especially someone who has and will continue to do what he can to make it right. Is it a guarantee that they will see the efforts he did and will make to repair the damage he has done to a few people? No, it’s not… but if he plays this right, and the university doesn’t rob him of the opportunity, he could actually come out on top of all of this.
Personally, I would rather have a guy coaching my son who has had his dirty laundry aired for everyone to see, and he did everything he possibly could to make up for what he did… along with a decade of reports from players that say he has not had a similar incident since then. If you aren’t stupid, you know that all of these men have flaws. If players wanted to, I’m sure you could find a handful of guys who could make some pretty terrible and mostly true accusations about every quality football coach in the history of the sport.
Our currently national culture seems to have completely forgotten about the concept of forgiveness. I honestly feel bad for the people who are bringing up things he did a decade ago as if it is still bothering them. They are in for a pretty miserable life if they can’t learn to forgive those who are penitent. I don’t get to tell them how they should feel, because I don’t know what it’s like to be them… but in my own personal experience, having been spit on, rocks thrown at me, lit on fire… I could have held on to my anger and frustrations with the people that did these things to me because of the color of my skin, but it was far easier on me to just let it go. That doesn’t mean I condone those actions, or wouldn’t want societal change to put a stop to those behaviors, but anger, and digging up things that people have long since moved on from is NOT the answer.
I don’t know what the best way for the University to handle this is, but if they fire him, I’m done with sports. Whitt has and always will be all about giving guys chances to redeem themselves. I would be shocked if he doesn’t fight to give Morgan that chance.
Often times, the people who are the most staunch defenders of a cause are the ones who were once on the other side of the issue. If this is handle in a certain way, I believe Morgan, the football team, the UofU and our community will be better for it. Will that happen? I don’t know. If the players want him to stay on as coach, I think it will happen.
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