Coach’s Spouse’s Pregame ‘Kiss’ With Gamers Causes Uproar
The Florida Gators misplaced to the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday (November 2) in Jacksonville, 24-17.
This was the third consecutive loss by the Gators to the Bulldogs of their annual rivalry.
However that wasn’t the subject of dialogue postgame and all weekend on the web.
Gators head coach Dan Mullen’s spouse was. Megan Mullen has a private manner that she greets each participant earlier than the video games.
In a tweet that has gone viral, many questions are being requested in regards to the “appropriateness” of Megan’s contact with the gamers.
At quick look, the optics look dangerous.
This can be a White grownup lady, grabbing the chests and being nose to nose with largely teenage and younger grownup Black and Brown males.
After all the web is what it’s, and that is 2019.
Feedback ranged from innocent jokes to calls of racial double requirements to inappropriate and disgusting sexual assaults on Mullen and the gamers.
It additionally stirred a debate over acceptable bodily contact.
For her half, Megan Mullen thinks of all of the Gators’ gamers as her surrogate kids.
When her husband got here again to this system as head coach in 2018 (he was quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Florida from 2005-08), he vowed to alter the “tradition” of this system.
The Gators had been profitable underneath City Meyer, successful two nationwide titles and two convention championships. However the group was mired in scandal with participant conduct points.
A part of the “tradition” reset was his spouse, Megan, ensuring the gamers knew that they’ve a surrogate mom in her. The way in which she chooses to indicate that’s with a bodily affirmation of affection.
She shared why it’s vital that the gamers know they’ve a mom determine in her, in the event that they want it, with Jacquie Franciulli of Yahoo Sports activities.
It’s OK if it makes you’re feeling uneasy once you see Megan with the gamers.
However maybe and all we are able to do is take her at her phrase, that is executed with the purest, most altruistic causes.
