Josh Newman. SL Trib tweeting. Investigation into a 2013 social media text message containing racist language.
Holy ■■■■.
shocking and disappointing. Even though it was 7 years ago that might be a deal breaker.
I’ll wait to judge or defend until more info comes out (I.e. pattern of behavior, what was actually said, etc). I’d like to think that this was an isolated incident that was a single massive lapse of judgement, but I have no idea at this point…and neither do you.
I fear the damage may already be done though. If you’re a minority recruit and just found out your coach sent a racial slur via text (regardless of how long ago it was), are you still going to come play for him?