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Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables: Cale Gundy Resignation Was ‘Right Thing to Do’

Oklahoma head football coach Brent Venables released a second statement in less than 24 hours, clarifying that the resignation of long-time assistant Cale Gundy was the “right thing to do.”

Gundy, who had been with the program as an assistant since 1999, announced his resignation in a social media post on Sunday after he read a racial slur aloud from a player’s iPad during a film session.

However, Venables revealed in his second statement that Gundy read the “racially charged word” aloud multiple times, an action which the Sooners head coach said was “not unacceptable.