LOGAN — Utah State on Sunday announced the suspension of a member of its football team due to “inappropriate racial comments.”
A joint statement was issued via Twitter by vice president and athletics director John Hartwell and head football coach Gary Andersen.
“We have been made aware of inappropriate racial comments made by a current student-athlete on our football team,” the statement said. “This will not be tolerated and we have suspended the individual immediately, and pending an investigation will take appropriate action.”
The statement did not identify the student-athlete.
In a statement released in June following the death of George Floyd, the Aggies’ coaching staff expressed a commitment “to being part of a solution by cultivating attitudes of understanding, fostering respect, creating opportunity for all, and working to build bridges that unite us as individuals, as the Aggie football family, and as citizens of our nation.”