New Mexico State football coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tyler Wright will “not be with the team” while the University investigates more than 150 posts on his social media account containing derogatory language about Africans and African-Americans, Hispanics and others, NM State athletics director Mario Moccia told the Las Cruces Sun-News late Friday night.
The posts come from from more than 10 years ago when Wright was a student and football player at Tarleton State. The Sun-News reported on posts on Wright’s social media earlier Friday night, and Moccia told the Sun-News shortly after the report that Wright “”not be with the team as we review the matter.”
A survey of Wright’s account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, uncovered several potentially insensitive posts, including that Ugandan warlord and accused war criminal Joseph Kony “should be a college coach” because “he got thousands of black kids to do what he said.” Wright also posted that he would “beat” a roommate if he was an LGBTQ+ individual and used a slur commonly used in reference to Blacks when announcing he was leaving for a vacation in Jamaica.
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Wright did not responded to repeated requests Friday night for comment from the Sun-News. Head coach Tony Sanchez also declined to comment.
The Aggies (1-3) play New Mexico (0-4) at home on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Wright’s background
Wright played at Tarleton from 2011-14 as a wide receiver, helping the then-Division II Texans become co-Lone Star Conference champions in 2013 with 432 receiving yards. He later became a football intern under then-Tarleton coach Cary Fowler from January-May 2015 before becoming a wide receivers coach at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas.
Wright coached at Permian from 2015-18…
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Publish date : 2024-09-28 05:31:36
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