Nearly four months after UF President Fuchs’ decision to eliminate the Gator Bait chant at football games, the Young Americans for Freedom are planning on bringing it back.
The student organization announced via a Facebook event page that it would be reciting the chant at the end of the first quarter in Saturday’s game against South Carolina — the home opener for the Gators.
On June 18, President Fuchs announced in an email to the UF student body that the university would be eliminating the chant, and it would no longer be performed at future UF sporting events, citing “‘horrific historical racist imagery associated with the phrase.