ESPN Host Marcellus Wiley Accuses Notre Dame Head Coach Brian Kelly Of Being Racist

If you have any respect for the work that ESPN does it might be gone after you hear what one of their personalities has said this time. With all that there is to talk about in the wide world of sports that people would find interesting there always seems to be someone from the network that tries to sensationalize something and create a story that isn't there.

This time it was Sportsnation host and former NFL defensive lineman Marcellus Wiley. According to him, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is a racist.

Here's the BK exchange on the sidelines. pic.twitter.com/wUS7aGdyBH

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His comments were in reference to the scene during Saturday's game against Temple where Kelly was seen shoving a black assistant coach, David Grimes:

“This is racial. You know I don’t like to play the race card, but I’m going to go here on this one,” he said. “When you see a black coach getting emasculated basically, undermined on the sidelines, when he’s a coach with authority over those players, they’re going to say, ‘Huh, there are very few images and likenesses of a black player with the position of authority on the coaching staff.’”

He went to speculate that the team is looking at Kelly different now because he shoved a black coach. He added that if Kelly believed Grimes was his equal he wouldn't have done what he did.

His co-host, Max Kellerman, agreed:

"I like that point and I think it’s right. It’s a bigger deal than if it was a white coach or a white subordinate…”

How stupid can you be? Race has nothing to do with this. If there was a white coach on the sideline yelling at the refs to the point Kelly feared they would get a penalty called he would have likely done the same thing. 

As for Kelly not treating him like an equal? He's not! Grimes is an assistant strength and conditioning coach. Kelly is the head coach. One of Kelly's jobs is to worry about what his subordinates do or say. He thought one was harming the team so he dealt with it. Could he have done it differently and/or in a more appropriate fashion? Absolutely! He has said so himself.

Race was not an issue, but when it comes to creating news and making a mountain out of a mole hill no one is better at that than ESPN.

[Mediaite]

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