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Nebraska President, Regent At Odds After Players Kneel During National Anthem

Three Nebraska football players deciding to kneel during the National Anthem prior to Saturday's game against Northwestern has "stirred a hot pot of opinions, some supporting their free speech rights and others condemning the act as inappropriate," according to a front-page piece by Ruggles & Nohr of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. NU President Hank Bounds yesterday said that he "defends the players' right to kneel." However, NU Regent Hal Daub said that he "was disappointed" in the players for protesting. Daub also said that he "was disappointed in the reaction" from coach Mike Riley, who "backed the players." Daub: "I was not pleased with his response." Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts on Monday said that he "upholds the players' right to protest, but he found their decision to kneel 'disgraceful and disrespectful'" (OMAHA WORLD-HERALD, 9/28). Daub, a veteran who served two years in Korea, said of the three players, "It's a free country. They don't have to play football for the university either. They know better, and they had better be kicked off the team." Nebraska LB Michael Rose-Ivey, one of the players to kneel, on Monday said that he and his teammates "chose to pray for their country while the national anthem was performed." Rose-Ivey, who noted he has received death threats for his actions, said, "I am not anti-police, I'm not anti-military, nor am I anti-American." He added he chose to kneel to "make the world a better place for the next generation" (LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR, 9/28). ESPN’s Bomani Jones said if Rose-Ivey "can stand after that and talk to the world as an unpaid college student," it is fair to look at Cavaliers F LeBron James "and be like, ‘Why are you so afraid of making somebody mad?’” (“Highly Questionable,” ESPN, 9/27).

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