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re: Mizzou AD publicly accused Dawn Staley of promoting an environment of racism & violence
Posted on 1/31/18 at 12:41 pm to scrooster
Posted on 1/31/18 at 12:41 pm to scrooster
Tanner is saying he has spoken with Greg Sankey and numerous other officials at the SEC offices and his (Mizzou's AD's) accusations and comments are being addressed.
Tanner is obviously not a happy camper right now. He's being very calculated and reserved with his comments but you can tell, he's not happy about the attacks on Dawn's integrity, our environment at Colonial Life Arena, our fans, etc. He is saying the comments directed at Dawn and our environment are beyond his understanding.
"Only Jim Sterk can explain his reasoning."
He is saying if any of this happened it would be unacceptable ... but they immediately investigated, had "ample staff handing that area in anticipation of it being a heated rivalry game ... a team from the west playing in the east" (wonder where he is going with that) ... and they have been able to find no evidence that any of these things happened."
He said Mizzou is well coached, outstanding team and outstanding players. He says sometimes things are said immediately after games ... and then you move on. He said it is unfortunate that these latest comments were made and it is being dealt with.
He doesn't like passing blame or transferring blame ... our game at Mizzou, it was hostile and passionate and it carried over ... but that's SEC basketball. He said it's unfortunate that now we're still having to talk about this game because of comments made by the Missouri AD on a local radio show in CoMo.
He said he has spoken to Dawn twice in the past 24 hours and she is not happy about these personal attacks on her, her players and our fans. She wants "resolution."
Ray said he is hoping that we soon reach a resolution, he has been in touch with multiple SEC officials and they assure him a resolution will be reached, and then we can move on from this unfortunate situation caused by these unfortunate comments out of Missouri ... and then we're going to move on to basketball.
End of basketball part of interview ... now he's back to being happy and funny and talking about SEC baseball and the upcoming season.
Tanner is obviously not a happy camper right now. He's being very calculated and reserved with his comments but you can tell, he's not happy about the attacks on Dawn's integrity, our environment at Colonial Life Arena, our fans, etc. He is saying the comments directed at Dawn and our environment are beyond his understanding.
"Only Jim Sterk can explain his reasoning."
He is saying if any of this happened it would be unacceptable ... but they immediately investigated, had "ample staff handing that area in anticipation of it being a heated rivalry game ... a team from the west playing in the east" (wonder where he is going with that) ... and they have been able to find no evidence that any of these things happened."
He said Mizzou is well coached, outstanding team and outstanding players. He says sometimes things are said immediately after games ... and then you move on. He said it is unfortunate that these latest comments were made and it is being dealt with.
He doesn't like passing blame or transferring blame ... our game at Mizzou, it was hostile and passionate and it carried over ... but that's SEC basketball. He said it's unfortunate that now we're still having to talk about this game because of comments made by the Missouri AD on a local radio show in CoMo.
He said he has spoken to Dawn twice in the past 24 hours and she is not happy about these personal attacks on her, her players and our fans. She wants "resolution."
Ray said he is hoping that we soon reach a resolution, he has been in touch with multiple SEC officials and they assure him a resolution will be reached, and then we can move on from this unfortunate situation caused by these unfortunate comments out of Missouri ... and then we're going to move on to basketball.
End of basketball part of interview ... now he's back to being happy and funny and talking about SEC baseball and the upcoming season.
This post was edited on 1/31/18 at 12:50 pm
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