To Pete Carroll, it looked like the opposite of a team at the center of a racial controversy.He watched his football squad go through its final workout before spring break Friday morning, saw players of various ethnicities sweat together, roughhouse and joke around. To him it seemed like a racial utopia.
Ironically, it was the comfortable banter between different races in the Trojans football family that led to the issue at hand this week, when a player took the "White Nation" moniker bestowed on a group of Caucasian special teams members by an African American assistant coach and started a "White Nation" group on Facebook.com — in what was supposed to be a joke...
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The inclusion of a swastika & the black baby in hand cuffs took the joke way too far. Dallas Sartz is gonna have some splainin to do to his teammates in the NFL. This is a potential HUGE black eye for SC's football program. Thank God the tournament is here and this can be pushed to the back burner. At least for now.
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