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Nick Saban comments on Alabama football players’ planned march in protest of racial injustice
By SDS Staff
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Around the SEC, multiple fall camp practices have been interrupted by players and coaches taking part in local marches and demonstrations in solidarity with the national protests following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.
While there have been practice walk-outs, boycotts and cancelations at some SEC programs, Alabama football players have planned their march for Monday, a day the team is not scheduled to practice. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban addressed his players’ plans in his Saturday post-scrimmage press conference.
“We’re obviously going to have a team event on Monday,” Saban said. “Just to make a comment about that, because I know you’ll probably ask me about it, the players have made these choices and decisions about what they want to do, how they want to be heard. And we want to support them because we do support what they want to do. I think they did a really good job in what they did before.”
Saban continued, pointing out some of the speakers who have talked to his team and the topics those speakers addressed.
“I think we implemented sort of a speaker series for some very prominent people: Condoleeza Rice, Tony Dungy, Stephen A. Smith, Joey Galloway, Charles Barkley,” Saban said. “And they all did a phenomenal job of trying to explain to players, how can we have a plan for change? How can we make things better in the future?
“And I think that’s what our players have really been focused on, and I think that’ll be what they want to try to get out there, a message on Monday. And we’re very much in support of that.”
Saban noted that the football team’s only other activity on Monday will be watching film.
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