Glenn Schembechler Apologizes for Social Media Posts After Resigning from Michigan

Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler apologized Sunday for racist and insensitive posts he shared on social media that led to his resignation from the Michigan soccer program.

“By inexplicably and irresponsibly liking issues on social media I owe an unabashed and unequivocal apology to my a whole lot of mates and fellow coaches within the Black group, all communities, the College of Michigan, my father’s legacy and my household,” he wrote.

Schembechler, the son of legendary Wolverines head coach Bo Schembechler, was hired as an assistant director of recruiting final week. He resigned three days later, with the Detroit Information‘ Angelique S. Chengelis noting how his Twitter account “had quite a lot of posts and ‘likes’ of a number of offensive and insensitive posts, together with a number of suggesting slavery and Jim Crow had been positives to strengthen Black people and households.”

In what he described as “flippant habits on Twitter,” Schembechler stated in his apology he was “mistaken”:

“Any phrases or philosophies that in any manner search to underplay the immeasurable struggling and long-term financial and social inequities that a whole lot of years of slavery and the Jim Crow period induced for Black Individuals is mistaken. I used to be mistaken. We mustn’t ever sanitize morally unsanitary, historic behaviors which have hindered the Black group, or some other group. There aren’t any historic silver linings for the expertise of our brothers and sisters.”

In a joint assertion instantly after Schembechler’s resignation, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and athletic director Warde Manuel stated they had been conscious his social media utilization had “induced concern and ache for people in our group.”

Schembechler was a graduate assistant at Michigan in 1993 however spent the majority of his employment profession within the NFL as a scout. He had most lately labored with the Las Vegas Raiders, who let him go in February.