Tx St Bobcats - Basketball Coach in trouble for racist remarks

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Texas State's men's basketball team played in a racially insensitive climate under Danny Kaspar, according to two former players who said the coach directed ethnic jokes and various stereotypes at minority players.

Former Bobcats point guard Jaylen Shead tweeted his allegations Thursday. He said Kaspar told a roster of predominantly black players to "chase that chicken" when he wanted them to run faster and told players who didn't exceed a 2.2 GPA that they would end up working at Popeyes.

In his tweet, Shead wrote that in practice, when Kaspar wanted players to speed up, the coach told them they would run faster if a "brown man with a [turban] and an AK-47" entered the gym.

Peacock also said Kaspar threatened to use racial slurs, which Shead's tweet referenced, after hearing the team's black players use a variation of the N-word among one another.

"He told the black players that if you can use it, I can use it," Peacock said. "That's one of the ones where you're like, 'OK ... no.' Those are two different meanings than when we use it.

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