Oklahoma offensive coach Cale Gundy speaks throughout an NCAA faculty soccer media day, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Norman, Okla. Sue Ogrocki, Related Press
On Sunday night time, longtime Oklahoma Sooners assistant soccer coach Cale Gundy resigned over the usage of a “shameful and hurtful phrase.”
The particular phrase used has not been verified, however Sooners head coach Brent Venables mentioned in a written assertion, “In teaching and in life, we’re all accountable for our actions and the ensuing outcomes.”
As advised by Gundy in a resignation assertion he posted on Twitter, he instructed gamers to take notes throughout a movie session final week. He mentioned he observed a participant who was “distracted,” and he picked up the participant’s iPad and started studying the phrases that had been on the display.
“One explicit phrase that I ought to by no means — beneath any circumstance — have uttered was displayed on that display,” Gundy’s assertion reads. “Within the second, I didn't even understand what I used to be studying and, as quickly as I did, I used to be horrified.”
Sooner Nation, thanks. pic.twitter.com/BYBOjObGna
— Cale Gundy (@OU_CoachGundy) August 8, 2022
Assertion from head soccer coach Brent Venables: pic.twitter.com/aXe3ak9uza
— Oklahoma Soccer (@OU_Football) August 8, 2022
Gundy emphasised that the phrases he learn “weren't my phrases” and what he did “was not malicious,” however “nonetheless, I'm mature sufficient to know that the phrase I mentioned was shameful and hurtful, irrespective of my intentions ... I take duty for my mistake. I apologize.”
Gundy, 50, performed quarterback at Oklahoma from 1990-1993 after which coached there through the 1994 season. He coached at UAB from 1995-1998 earlier than returning to Oklahoma in 1999, the place he has been since.
Earlier than resigning, Gundy was working because the group’s broad receivers coach. Venables introduced that L’Damian Washington will now coach that group on an interim foundation.