Georgia Tech coach Geoff Collins lent his voice to the nationwide protest of the death of George Floyd with a tweet posted Friday evening.
“My Heart Aches & we ALL need to take a Stand to make this world a better place 4 EVERYONE,” Collins wrote in the tweet, adding the hashtags #CoachesStandforJustice and #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd.
Collins has joined a chorus sharing its outrage over the death of Floyd, the Minneapolis man who died last week while in police custody. He is among the more prominent college football coaches to call for justice for Floyd. For Collins, who typically limits his public comments to football and Tech, it was a rare and significant statement on a social matter.
Among his peers, North Carolina’s Mack Brown, Miami’s Manny Diaz, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Georgia Southern’s Chad Lunsford also have brought attention to Floyd, not to mention former Tech coach Bill Curry, who in a tweet lamented his generation’s inaction, “ignoring chances to change old racist attitudes. Though there has been progress in some areas, in other ways we are back to the sixties. No excuse. I’m partially responsible, humbled and sorry.”
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