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Newsstand: Glenn 'Shemy' Schembechler apologizes after resignation

Anthony Broomeby: Anthony Broome05/22/23anthonytbroome
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Michigan football’s short-lived reunion with Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler ended over the weekend after resigning as assistant director of recruiting due to Twitter activity that liked tweets suggesting that Jim Crow laws had a positive effect on the Black community.

Schembechler released an apology on Monday morning for “flippant behavior” on the social media platform.

“Any words or philosophies that in any way seek to underplay the immeasurable suffering and long-term economic and social inequities that hundreds of years of slavery and the ‘Jim Crow’ era caused for Black Americans is wrong,” Schembechler said in the statement, via ESPN. “I was wrong. We must never sanitize morally unsanitary, historical behaviors that have hindered the Black community, or any other community. There are no historical silver linings for the experience of our brothers and sisters.”

Head football coach Jim Harbaugh and athletic director Warde Manuel released a statement on Saturday evening announcing Schembechler’s resignation. He officially announced he would join the program on May 17, making his time last a little under three days.

“We are aware of some comments and likes on social media that have caused concern and pain for individuals in our community,” it read. “Michigan Athletics is fully committed to a place where our coaches, staff and student-athletes feel welcome and where we fully support the University’s and Athletic Department’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.”

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“I see it sometimes. I don’t really like paying attention to that, because I don’t want to get the big head or anything. I’m aware of it. I’ve always been aware of it, but I’m just trying to keep getting there, because I know there are some guys ahead of me. I want to be the top guy, so I still gotta work and get to the top.”

– Michigan football safety Rod Moore on his offseason hype heading into 2023

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