(Stats Perform) – Chattanooga fired its offensive line coach on Thursday for a derogatory social media post about Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams.
The Twitter account of Chris Malone, who was in his second season at Chattanooga, was deleted following a tweet late Tuesday that made unflattering references to Abrams’ weight and accused her of “cheating in an election.”
Abrams, a Democrat, mobilized voters in her home state in support of the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who won the Senate run-off elections in Georgia. In 2018, Abrams lost in the state’s gubernatorial race as the first African-American female to be a major party’s nominee for governor.
Chattanooga released similar statements from athletic director Mark Wharton and head football coach Rusty Wright that denounced the post and said “that individual” – not referencing Malone by name – was no longer a part of the program. Malone’s bio was removed from the school’s athletics website Thursday morning.
Wharton called the post “appalling.”
Said Wright, a Chattanooga graduate in his second season: “Our football program has a clear set of standards. Those standards include respecting others. It is a message our players hear daily. It is a standard I will not waiver on.”
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