For many college coaches, this has arguably been the most tense, nerve-racking week of their careers.
As athletes have become more empowered to speak up in the wake of mass protests from coast-to-coast and less frightened about who they might offend by discussing the racial inequality they have seen and experienced in this country, it has been impossible to predict what’s around the corner.
Things that were supposed to be kept in-house, situations that the control freaks who run college programs might have thought they could handle in the past, were suddenly exposed.
A racially charged incident from three years ago that left lingering resentment at Clemson suddenly resurfaced.