I too had only read about Lacy calling out Scalley for using the N-word, and per Lacy, he allegedly called him out on it in 2013. All the other guys were saying stuff like “it doesn’t surprise me” — essentially admitting that they’d never heard him say it.
If you look even further into all the former Utah athlete tweets, the biggest “shock” seem to come from those who’d played after 2013 — essentially suggesting that this sort of offense hadn’t been repeated beyond Lacy’s 2013 admonishing.
Furthermore, Scalley’s supporters don’t appear to be just the athletes beyond 2013. There’s guys coming forward in support of Scalley that predated even Sean Smith.
Conclusion: There’s very little evidence pointing to Coach Scalley being a bonafide racist. Conversely, large amounts of evidence continues to pour in from former black athletes that he is NOT! At worst, Scalley is guilty of being “ignorant” to certain racial sensitivities. And being that Scalley had been born and raised in Utah — a place widely devoid of racial minorities — this shouldn’t come as such a surprise.
In lieu of “firing” him, just give the guy some HR mandated racial sensitivity training, and move on.
And for what it’s worth, it might not be such a bad idea to give ALL coaches and university faculty members mandatory racial and sexual sensitivity training in the path forward. Most corporations already do this, and when I was in the Navy — way back in the 1990s — this training was annual!
.
Loading ...
