Oklahoma assistant soccer coach Cale Gundy RESIGNS after utilizing ‘shameful’ language in movie session

College of Oklahoma assistant head soccer coach and former Sooners quarterback Cale Gundy resigned Sunday after admitting to utilizing ‘shameful’ language throughout a movie session final week.

Gundy, the brother of Oklahoma State head coach Mike Gundy, introduced his resignation in a social media publish, insisting that the offending phrase ‘was not malicious; it wasn´t even intentional.’

‘Nonetheless, I’m mature sufficient to know that the phrase I mentioned was shameful and hurtful, it doesn’t matter what my intentions,’ Cale Gundy mentioned in his assertion.

The incident happened throughout a current movie session when the assistant coach discovered one participant distracted and taking a look at his iPad, Cale Gundy mentioned in his assertion. He then picked up the system and skim a phrase off the display screen that he now acknowledges he ‘ought to by no means – below any circumstance – have uttered.’

Gundy mentioned he was ‘horrified’ upon realizing what he had mentioned.

‘The unlucky actuality is that somebody in my place may cause hurt with out ever that means to take action. In that circumstance, a person of character accepts accountability,’ Gundy mentioned. ‘I take duty for my mistake. I apologize.’

The phrase itself and the context round its use haven’t been revealed.

Gundy was the Sooners’ quarterback from 1990 till 1993, ending with greater than 6,000 passing yards and 35 touchdowns. He is additionally labored as an assistant coach on the College of Alabama-Birmingham.

Now-former Sooners coach Bob Stoops employed Gundy to teach the staff’s operating backs in 1998.

Oklahoma coach Brent Venables additionally launched an announcement saying anybody linked with this system is ‘accountable’ for his or her actions.

‘It´s with unhappiness that I settle for coach Gundy´s resignation,’ Venables mentioned. ‘He´s devoted greater than half his life to Oklahoma soccer and has served our program and college effectively. We’re grateful for that dedication.’

The Gundy household is accustomed to controversy.

Mike, who was the quarterback at rival Oklahoma State earlier than turning into the Cowboys coach in 2005, was accused of utilizing the n-word at an African-American Colorado participant in 1989.

Alfred Williams, a former star linebacker at Colorado and NFL participant, retold the story to The Oklahoman in 2020, including that he would really like an apology and hopes to see ‘some progress’ from Gundy, whom he doesn’t need to be fired.

‘I do not forget that it was the primary time that the College of Colorado beat Oklahoma State whereas I used to be there,’ Williams informed The Oklahoman on Wednesday night time. ‘It was a giant win. It actually was a giant win.

‘And I keep in mind Mike Gundy known as me the N-word. That is what I keep in mind.’

An Oklahoma State athletic division spokesman informed the Each day Mail that Gundy wouldn’t touch upon the accusation, which was first revealed after that sport.

Williams’s allegations had been corroborated by a number of teammates and himself following Colorado’s 41-17 win over the Cowboys in Stillwater, Oklahoma on November 12, 1989.

‘He mentioned it to me and a few different guys on the sector,’ linebacker Kanavis McGhee informed The Oklahoman on the time. ‘It acquired me actual upset.

‘This is a man within the highlight on a regular basis, to say one thing like that isn’t cool in any respect. All it did was fireplace us up.’

Williams, Bruce Younger and Okland Salavea additionally reported the allegation to the media on the time.

Gundy denied it to reporters after the sport.

‘I did not say it,’ Gundy mentioned. ‘It is simply not true. I have been right here 4 years, and effectively over half of my buddies are black.

‘I simply didn’t say that; I would not say one thing like that.’

In accordance with a St. Louis Dispatch article from the sport, Gundy denied the accusations and informed reporters that the Buffaloes gamers initiated the trash speaking. He went on to inform the media to learn a Sports activities Illustrated article about Colorado’s disciplinary issues throughout the soccer program.

Talking with the Oklahoman on Wednesday, Williams mentioned he had not seen Gundy’s denial till this week.

‘If he denies that he mentioned (that), I’ve at the least 20 individuals who will vouch for what occurred that day.

‘I am a little bit upset, as a result of after 31 years I lastly noticed the story revealed in your papers out in Oklahoma,’ he continued, referring to The Oklahoman’s sport story from 1989. ‘That was the primary time I noticed among the responses to what I mentioned.

‘Within the St. Louis Dispatch he mentioned, ‘Have a look at the College of Colorado and its gamers. They acquired rapists.’

Williams, who performed 9 NFL seasons, will not be talked about within the SI article and was not accused of any crime at Colorado.

Gundy grew to become Oklahoma State’s offensive coordinator in 2001 and was promoted to the pinnacle teaching job at his alma mater in 2005. He has one Huge 12 title and was named convention Coach of the Yr in 2010.