Texas A&M is the latest SEC team to protest social injustice instead of having football practice, according to a program insider.
Billy Liucci of TexAgs shared the news on Friday evening via Twitter.
“I’ve been told the Texas A&M football team is currently conducting a peaceful march across campus and not practicing on Friday, the latest in a wave of ongoing pro and college protests,” Liucci wrote.
Texas A&M joins Kentucky, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Missouri, LSU and other college football programs around the country to not practice in solidarity with protests and other sports league boycotts/strikes following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Other SEC teams have also participated in locally organized protests.
Teams are currently allowed up to 20 hours of on-field practices in fall camp.
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