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Texas A&M Student Assistant Michael Richardson Fired After Liberty Bowl Incident

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Student Assistant Coaches are a big part of the college sports experience–but they’re not supposed to get too involved from the sidelines. For Texas A&M student assistant Michael Richardson, forgetting that rule meant losing his job after he struck two West Virginia players during Monday’s AutoZone Liberty Bowl. His bad behavior was immortalized in GIFs, too…

Michael Richardson

It forced Aggies coach Kevin Sumlin to issue a statement on Tuesday apologizing to the West Virginia players who got hit. There was simply no reason for either of those incidents to happen as it looked Richardson wanted to get himself into the game with the elbows and shoved he threw out there. Sumlin did the right thing at the end of the day though in getting rid of Richardson.

Those kinds of actions can’t be tolerated in the sport and obviously Sumlin gets that. Richardson later posted a public apology, as well…

Michael Richardson apology

Anyway, Richardson hopefully learned a lesson here and won’t do anything like that again. He made Sumlin and the whole team look bad. Now maybe Richardson can personally seek out some players who deserve an apology.


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