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New Mexico State football offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tyler Wright’s social media contains more than 150 social media posts containing derogatory language about Africans and African-Americans, Hispanics, women and the LGBTQ+ community from more than 10 years ago when he was a student and football player at Tarleton State.
Minutes after the Las Cruces Sun-News, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, reported on Wright’s social media account history late Friday evening, NMSU athletics director Mario Moccia informed the Sun-News that Wright will “no longer be with the team” as the school reviews 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 Black people when announcing he was leaving for a vacation in Jamaica.
Wright did not respond to repeated requests for comment from the Las Cruces Sun-News on Friday night. Moccia told the Sun-News he was “not aware of anything” regarding Wright’s posts, then later informed the Sun-News that Wright will not be with the team as the matter is investigated. Head coach Tony Sanchez also declined to comment, as did a university athletics department communications spokesman.
The school is aware of the posts and looking into the matter, a New Mexico State University spokesman indicated to the Sun-News.
The posts range from 2011-14, when Wright was a wide receiver at Tarleton State in…
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Publish date : 2024-09-28 05:46:36
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