Bleacher Report · Mar 4, 2021
Creighton's Greg McDermott Says He Offered to Resign After 'Plantation' Comment
Creighton men's basketball coach Greg McDermott offered to resign if players asked him to after he made racially insensitive remarks in a recent locker room speech.
"This is their team," McDermott said in an interview on 1620 The Zone (via Jon Nyatawa of the Omaha World-Herald). "If they would have chosen to have me walk away, I would have walked away. But that is not what they wanted."
The head coach came under fire for his post-game speech that used slavery imagery after a Feb. 27 loss to Xavier.
"Guys, we got to stick together," McDermott told his players. "We need both feet in. I need everybody to stay on the plantation. I can't have anybody leave the plantation."