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Ex-Illini Moorehead apologizes

Texas A&M assistant football coach Aaron Moorehead, a former Illini receiver, apologized for a series of tweets about loyalty and accountability he posted soon after a highly touted quarterback recruit announced he was breaking an oral commitment to the Aggies.

A few minutes after Tate Martell from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas tweeted Wednesday night he was reopening his recruitment, Moorehead posted “I feel sorry for ppl who never understand loyalty.”

Moorehead followed with more critical tweets, never naming Martell. Soon after, another Aggies recruit, receiver Mannie Netherly, posted on Twitter that he was also reversing his commitment.