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Nebraska regent wants football players kicked off team for anthem protest

Related Topics: American football, Nebraska, Hal Daub

Members of Nebraska's football team knelt during the national anthem over the weekend leading to a number of racially tinged threats in recent days.

Amid the backlash, some Huskers fans pressed for linebackers Michael Rose-Ivey, Mohamed Barry and defensive end DaiShon Neal to be kicked off the team, an idea echoed by Nebraska regent Hal Daub on Tuesday.

“It’s a free country. They don’t have to play football for the university either," Daub told the Lincoln Journal Star. “They know better, and they had better be kicked off the team. They won’t take the risk to exhibit their free speech in a way that places their circumstance in jeopardy, so let them get out of uniform and do their protesting on somebody else’s nickel.