Univ. of Nebraska Board Member Calls For Anthem Protestors to be Kicked Off Football Team

Following Saturday’s Nebraska-Northwestern game — in which three Cornhuskers knelt for the National Anthem — a member of the University of Nebraska’s Board of Regents called for the players to be dismissed from the team.

In an interview with the Lincoln Journal-Star, Hal Daub — one of eight members of the Nebraska’s Board of Regents, which oversees the general operations of the university — said that the players “are not supposed to do things that create disparagement or negative implications.”

“They know better, and they had better be kicked off the team,” said Daub, the former mayor of Omaha.

The movement is continuing to grow. More & more players are kneeling during National Anthem. Three Huskers tonight pic.twitter.com/8WCv3oBmKW

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 24, 2016

In a follow-up chat with the Journal-Star Daub denied that he was calling for the players to be cut from the Corner. But he doubled-down on his overall take:

“They won’t take the risk to exhibit their free speech in a way that places their circumstance in jeopardy, so let them get out of uniform and do their protesting on somebody else’s nickel,” he said.

One of the players, Michael Rose-Ivey said at a press conference Monday that he’s been called racial slurs and received death threats on social media since his protest.

Some believe DaiShon, Mohamed, and myself should be kicked off the team or suspended, while some say we should be lynched or shot just like the other black people that have died recently. Another believed that since we didn’t want to stand for anthem, that we should be hung before the anthem before the next game. These are actual statements we received from fans.

[h/t The Big Lead]

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