Former players call out Pittsburgh head coach Pat Narduzzi

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On Monday night, Reynolds took to Twitter to reveal what he experienced from Narduzzi along with other former Pitt players. The players are attempting to raise awareness for systematic racism within college football and calling for change.

“My former head coach would call opponents ‘thugs’ if he didn’t like their style of play,” Reynolds wrote. “He’d even call some of my teammates and I ‘thugs’ if we wore a hood underneath our travel jumpsuit when it was freezing outside. Lol we couldn’t even wear our Pitt hat backwards without being called ‘thugs.’ These things happen all the time and are constantly overlooked or never even heard about. Although they aren’t direct racial slurs, it isn’t not racism just (because) you use alternate terms to define us. There is systematic oppression and racism within college athletics and it needs to be addressed as well. If you are a college coach or a sports coach in general and have spoken out with genuine care and legit facts, I salute you!”

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Former players Darian Street and Justin Morgan also wrote and were critical of Narduzzi when sharing Reynolds’ message.

“(He’s) not lying,” Street wrote.

“Remember when he told me to cut my dreads then said it was pitiful he didn’t see me with a haircut the next day,” Morgan wrote.

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