George Floyd's death and the subsequent protests are apparently too hot for most college football coaches to talk about, USA TODAY Sports' DanWolken writes.
The profession that sells leadership and toughness as if it were a TED Talk was largely silent on Friday.
On a day where athletes across many sports were speaking out, just a few prominent college football coaches tackled this painful moment.that have brought us — again — to this miserable place as a country is apparently too hot for most coaches to handle. The pressure to take a public stand about how we need to change as a society, as a culture, was left to the young people, many of whom are grieving and scared.
Earlier Indiana’s Tom Allen and Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins were the only Power Five head coaches who even acknowledged the searing reality. On a radio interview with Rich Eisen, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh said it was “completely outrageous” and hoped charges were filed against all four police officers involved in the killing.
The hollowness of that inaction, and yet the utter predictability of it, in some ways help illustrate why America struggles to break out of this cycle.
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