What did Cale Gundy say

Longtime Sooners assistant coach Cale Gundy has resigned ... after he says he uttered a "shameful and hurtful" word during a team meeting last week.

"It's with sadness that I accept Coach Gundy's resignation," Venables said Sunday night. "We're thankful for that commitment. We also acknowledge that in stepping aside he's placed the program and the welfare of our student-athletes first. He continued, "One particular word that I should never -- under any circumstance -- have uttered was displayed on that screen. "In that circumstance, a man of character accepts accountability. "I instructed my players to take notes," said the 50-year-old, who had just been tapped this offseason to coach the Sooners receivers this year.

Oklahoma assistant coach Cale Gundy's sudden resignation Sunday came after Gundy read "a racially charged word" aloud multiple times, coach Brent Venables ...

"Again, his resignation was the right thing to do, and we will move forward positively." "The unfortunate reality is that someone in my position can cause harm without ever meaning to do so," Gundy wrote in a statement posted to his Twitter account. "Coach Gundy resigned from the program because he knows what he did was wrong," Venables said Monday. "He chose to read aloud to his players, not once but multiple times, a racially charged word that is objectionable to everyone, and does not reflect the attitude and values of our university or our football program.

University of Oklahoma assistant head football coach Cale Gundy stepped down after repeatedly saying a 'racially charged' term to his players, according to ...

According to a St. Louis Dispatch article from the game (left), Gundy denied the accusations and told reporters that the Buffaloes players initiated the trash talking. Buffaloes teammates Alfred Williams, Kanavis McGhee Bruce Young and Okland Salavea reported the allegation to the media at the time, as seen in this 1989 article from The Oklahoman (right) He has one Big 12 title and was named conference Coach of the Year in 2010. He went on to tell the media to read a Sports Illustrated article about Colorado's disciplinary problems within the football program. The incident took place during a recent film session when the assistant coach found one player distracted and looking at his iPad, Cale Gundy said in his statement. 'I'm a little upset, because after 31 years I finally saw the story published in your papers out in Oklahoma,' Williams continued, referring to The Oklahoman's game story from 1989. 'I grew up in the Bay area and went to school obviously in Oklahoma. I know racists and have witnessed both obvious and discreet forms of racism and have known and detested even more actual racist (sic). Coach Gundy is the farthest thing from this type of person.' Gundy was the Sooners' quarterback from 1990 until 1993, finishing with more than 6,000 passing yards and 35 touchdowns. Oklahoma assistant head football coach and former Sooners quarterback Cale Gundy (left) resigned Sunday after admitting to using 'shameful' language during a film session last week. 'Coach Gundy resigned from the program because he knows what he did was wrong,' Venables said in his second statement on Gundy's exit. As the leader of this program, it's essential that we hold ourselves to the highest standards as we model to our players the type of men we want them to become.' Gundy had insisted that he uttered the offending term inadvertently while reading it aloud off a player's iPad.

Gundy, a longtime Oklahoma assistant, resigned after using "one particular word that I should never — under any circumstance — have uttered."

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Oklahoma offensive coach Cale Gundy speaks during an NCAA college football media day, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, in Norman, Okla. Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press.

“One particular word that I should never — under any circumstance — have uttered was displayed on that screen,” Gundy’s statement reads. I apologize.” As told by Gundy in a resignation statement he posted on Twitter, he instructed players to take notes during a film session last week.

Several of Gundy's former players have taken to social media to speak on his behalf after his sudden resignation on Sunday evening.

He didn’t have to make trips to my hometown just to eat breakfast tacos with me at my favorite restaurant, and he most certainly doesn’t still have to call me to this day just to check on me. If not for Coach Gundy I would not have attended OU, survived at OU, stayed at OU, and succeeded in life after OU. I owe my education and professional career to him and most importantly owe who I am as a person to him.” “I came here in 2006 for the tradition and the love of this program,” Murray wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. “Also the love for Coach Gundy, he’s provided so much knowledge to me over the years and I will always support and love him as well as his entire family. I just want to thank him with the most sincerity I have for investing the extra time he did with me. “I want you to know that I support you as you go through what I can only imagine as being one of the toughest situations you’ve had to deal with in your life!,” Peterson wrote. “From the very first day he got in contact with me when I played JUCO, he went out of his way to show me he believed in me.