*University of Oklahoma football recruit Jean Delance said he withdrew his commitment to coach Bob Stoops after seeing the video that showed SAE fraternity members at the school chanting racist remarks, reports ESPN.
“Very uneducated people. I wouldn’t want my son or child to go there or to anywhere like that,” Delance told CBS 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday. “It was just very disturbing to me. I didn’t like it.”
Delance, a four-star offensive lineman, committed to the Sooners in November and visited Norman with his mother, Altavian, last weekend.
But when they returned to their home in Mesquite, Texas, the video, in which members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon also indicated that African-Americans would never be admitted to the fraternity, prompted them to rethink the commitment.
“I’ve had family history in racial issues, inequality,” Altavian Delance told CBS 11. “Jean knows these things are serious to us.”
Oklahoma president David Boren reacted swiftly Tuesday, expelling two students he says have been identified as leading the chant.
Stoops and several Sooners players attended a protest outside the fraternity Monday. Men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger also was seen at the gathering.
“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.”
The football team canceled its scheduled Monday practice. Instead, players and coaches held a short vigil inside the practice facility. The players, wearing all black, then left, walking in rows locked arm in arm.
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