The message behind Tyreke Smith’s ‘I Hope I Don't Get Killed For Being Black Today' T-shirt

High school football prospect Tyreke Smith raised attention to the epidemic of blacks being killed at an alarming rate. Four-star 2018 defensive end recruit Tyreke Smith attended Ohio State’s one-day camp Saturday with an offer from the Buckeyes already in hand. With little more to prove to the college football programs on the field — he has an offer from essentially every powerhouse in America — it was what he wore while participating that grabbed headlines.

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  Star college football recruit wears ‘I Hope I Don’t Get Killed For Being Black Today’ shirt to Ohio State camp

  Yardbarker
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  College football recruit raises eyebrows with racially charged T-shirt

  New York Post

Vince Dooley says he would not have fired Mark Richt at Georgia

There was a bit of a shock when Georgia decided to move on from former head football coach Mark Richt last year. Richt had been a model of consistency in a profession that sees that becoming more and more a rarity and he did so in a conference bubbling with as much pressure as any conference has from top to bottom. Regardless, it was time to try something new if the goal was to get Georgia over the hump of being a perennial SEC East Division contender and more of an annual SEC championship and College Football Playoff contender. If the decision were up to him, former Georgia head coach Vince Dooley says he would not have fired Richt. This is something you might expect to hear from the man who

NIU soliciting donations for statue depicting former husky mascot high-fiving

Is there a better way to honor a dog mascot than with a statue of the dog giving a high-five? Northern Illinois will unveil a statue outside its stadium this fall that depicts former mascot Diesel the husky. Per the Chicago Tribune, a fund to pay for the statue has raised $11,000 of the $25,000 needed and the statue is currently being cast.