BYUfan35 Posted September 1, 2022 Group: Member Topic Count: 1 Content Count: 10 Reputation: 9 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/26/2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 BYU official: No evidence banned volleyball fan used any racial slurs Athletic administrators at Brigham Young University said Wednesday they have... Duke volleyball player's racial slur allegation receives pushback from witnesses: report A recent report says no racial slurs were heard during the BYU-Duke volleyball... https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/banned-byu-fan-was-misidentified-as-person-who-yelled-slurs-at-duke-volleyball-player-police-say-010256249.html The fan who was banned by BYU does not appear to have yelled slurs at volleyball match, campus police say BYU police say it doesn’t appear the man who was banned was the person... BYU police reports details what happened during BYU-Duke volleyball match Police report and an ESPN interview with Duke volleyball player add new... I know there was some push back to my initial comment in this thread, and rightfully so. I don’t blame anyone for taking these allegations seriously. However, In the last day as the media has gotten a clearer picture from the students, police, and BYU Athletic Department, the story seems to come down to the Duke player mishearing something in the crowd. Our fans yell ‘Cougar’ as you can imagine, and also yell the names of the opposing players. Duke has a player named Nikki. There was likely some disconnect in one of those two things. The crowd of 5700 was also the biggest Duke has played against, the atmosphere likely had them on edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friscobull Posted September 1, 2022 Group: Member Topic Count: 7 Content Count: 10,834 Reputation: 3,952 Days Won: 67 Joined: 05/23/2019 Share Posted September 1, 2022 6 hours ago, BYUfan35 said: BYU official: No evidence banned volleyball fan used any racial slurs Athletic administrators at Brigham Young University said Wednesday they have... Duke volleyball player's racial slur allegation receives pushback from witnesses: report A recent report says no racial slurs were heard during the BYU-Duke volleyball... https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/banned-byu-fan-was-misidentified-as-person-who-yelled-slurs-at-duke-volleyball-player-police-say-010256249.html The fan who was banned by BYU does not appear to have yelled slurs at volleyball match, campus police say BYU police say it doesn’t appear the man who was banned was the person... BYU police reports details what happened during BYU-Duke volleyball match Police report and an ESPN interview with Duke volleyball player add new... I know there was some push back to my initial comment in this thread, and rightfully so. I don’t blame anyone for taking these allegations seriously. However, In the last day as the media has gotten a clearer picture from the students, police, and BYU Athletic Department, the story seems to come down to the Duke player mishearing something in the crowd. Our fans yell ‘Cougar’ as you can imagine, and also yell the names of the opposing players. Duke has a player named Nikki. There was likely some disconnect in one of those two things. The crowd of 5700 was also the biggest Duke has played against, the atmosphere likely had them on edge. Most of us with a brain knew there was no substance to the story, these false allegations happen so often that most of us our numb to it. Looking forward to Saturday, I wish you the worst of luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullstampede9922 Posted September 2, 2022 Group: Member Topic Count: 12 Content Count: 1,485 Reputation: 543 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/24/2013 Share Posted September 2, 2022 Since it turned out to be false and a non-story, would be great to just delete the whole thread? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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