Former Columbia football star Marcellus Wiley discusses student protests: ‘I’m disgusted’

Former NFL defensive end Marcellus Wiley stated he’s “disgusted” by the occasions going down at Columbia College. 

Wiley, who performed school soccer at Columbia, just lately joined Dan Dakich on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me” to handle the continuing protests on the Ivy League college. Related demonstrations have been taking place at school campuses throughout the U.S. in latest weeks.

“I am disgusted,” Wiley started. “I do not decide the political aspect… it would not matter what aspect you might be politically on this one. You do not have the appropriate to protest and be unruly. Now peacefully protest, go do it.”

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Wiley argued that protesting was not the “finish all be all.”

“I discuss to those children and I do know my basis, Undertaking Transition, I am all the time locally and speaking to those children… half these children do not even know why they on the market protesting. It is unreal… prefer it’s insane.” Wiley instructed Dakich. “And those that do know additionally know that this isn’t the tip all be all. There are different steps and measures you have to take past protesting.”

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The previous Buffalo Bills defender added that college students’ actions might influence their future.

“So I do not know why these children are going to this extent… creating encampments, destroying their college, their property, their popularity, as a result of while you go away individuals ask ‘The place did you go to high school?’ after which their minds goes to 2 locations. The constructive, tutorial popularity, nice curriculum…. after which awe Columbia… the place the place all of the protests, the place the place all the youngsters cannot even be managed, the place the place the management did not step in quick sufficient, swift sufficient. So it damages your popularity, however we are going to rebound as a result of now we have to rebound.”

Demonstrators collect exterior the primary entrance to Columbia College in New York Metropolis, U.S., April 29, 2024.  (REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs)

Wiley then pointed to Stanford University’s dealing with of scholar protests.

“I want we’d’ve dealt with it like Stanford. Noticed a number of the Texas colleges, a number of the Florida colleges… Stanford wrote a letter, they stated look earlier than ya’ll go exterior let me simply let the foundations of engagement… you might be allowed to protest these hours, these locations, go forward. That is what I want Columbia would have did. After which after that if you wish to violate these insurance policies, there shall be swift penalties.” 

TV Character Marcellus Wiley attends the Homeless Not Toothless Hollywood Occasion at The Beverly Hilton on April 22, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Pictures)

Like at different universities throughout the nation, some college students at Stanford have created an encampment within the White Plaza portion of the northern California school campus to protest Israel’s army offensive within the Gaza Strip. 

Stanford President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez stated the scholar encampment violates polices that prohibit in a single day tenting on campus. The college has submitted the names of scholars caught violating campus insurance policies to the Workplace of Group Requirements (OCS) for disciplinary proceedings, they stated. 

Protest organizers have decried the college’s response to the scholar protests. 

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The Payments drafted Wiley within the second spherical of the 1997 NFL Draft out of Columbia. After a four-year run in Buffalo, Wiley went on to play for the Chargers, Cowboys, and Jaguars.

Fox Information’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

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