Cat Gundy, the daughter of former Oklahoma football assistant Cale Gundy, called out Sooners head coach Brent Venables’ statement about her father’s resignation in a since-deleted tweet.
“Interesting you told your players to keep their mouths shut about what really happened and their heads down,” Gundy’s daughter allegedly wrote in a tweet, according to screengrabs on Twitter. “The truth will always come to fruition, it’s only a matter of time.”
The reported tweet was not posted on her Twitter account as of Tuesday morning.
Gundy, 50, resigned from his position on Sunday, after he said in a statement that he unintentionally used a “shameful” word during a team film session while reading aloud from a player’s iPad.
On Monday, Venables released a separate statement that said Gundy used a “racially charged word” multiple times as he read from a player’s device during a film session.
“He chose to read aloud to his players, not once but multiple times, a racially charged word that is objectionable to everyone, and does not reflect the attitude and values of our university or our football program,” Venables said. “This is not acceptable. Period. Coach Gundy did the right thing in resigning. He knows our goals for excellence and that coaches have special responsibilities to set an example.”
Venable called Gundy’s resignation “painful” but necessary because of the hurt “felt by a room full of young men I am charged to protect, lead and love.”
In his resignation letter, Gundy maintained that “the words I read aloud from that screen” were not his own.
“What I said was not malicious; it wasn’t even intentional,” Gundy stated. “Still, I am mature enough to know that the word I said was shameful and hurtful, no matter my intentions.”
It is still unclear exactly what word was said by Gundy during the film session. Following Gundy’s resignation, former Sooners running back Joe Mixon — who currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals — defended the coach in a statement, calling him a “teacher” and a “mentor.”
“I know racists, I have witnessed both obvious and discreet forms of racism and have known and detested even more actual racist[s],” Mixon stated. “Coach Gundy is the farthest thing from this type of person. I spent every day for the 1,000 days I was in Norman with him, and I never saw anything that would lead anyone to believe this or think this.”
Gundy spent 16 years as the running backs coacher the Sooners, followed by seven more coaching inside receivers. He was the longest-serving football coach in the Big 12, ahead of his brother, Mike, the Oklahoma State head coach.