Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops and several Sooners players attended a protest Monday following the release of an online video depicting members of a university fraternity making racist chants.
The viral video, which surfaced Sunday, shows members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chanting a racial slur and indicating blacks would never be admitted to the fraternity. The chant also references lynching.
Stoops and multiple players were photographed attending the on-campus protest Monday morning. The longtime coach told the Tulsa World that he considers the video “appalling.”
“It’s sad the ignorance that can still be there with some people,” Stoops told the Tulsa World. “It’s just appalling.
“I was here to be with my guys. We all work with beautiful young men and women of all races. It’s just — very little gets me choked up. But that hurt.”
Assistant football coach Mike Stoops, Oklahoma men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger and approximately 100 athletes were at the demonstration, according to the Tulsa World.
Information from Espn.com contributed to this report.