Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry urged state officers to enact a coverage that requires student-athletes to be current for the nationwide anthem after the LSU girls’s basketball group obtained harsh backlash for lacking the nationwide anthem earlier than its regional last recreation in opposition to Iowa Monday evening.
The Republican governor grew to become the most recent determine to name out the Tigers for being noticeably absent in the course of the nationwide anthem.
LSU ahead Angel Reese, heart, and LSU guard Flau’jae Johnson, proper, discuss as Reese leaves the court docket in the course of the fourth quarter of an Elite Eight spherical recreation in the course of the NCAA Event Monday, April 1, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Picture/Mary Altaffer)
“My mom coached girls’s highschool basketball in the course of the peak of desegregation, nobody has a larger respect for the game and for Coach [Kim] Mulkey,” Landry wrote in a put up on X.
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“Nonetheless, above respect for that recreation is a deeper respect for people who serve to guard us and unite us below one flag!
“It’s time that every one school boards, together with Regent, put a coverage in place that pupil athletes be current for the nationwide anthem or threat their athletic scholarship! This can be a matter of respect that every one collegiate coaches ought to instill.”
Jeff Landry, the previous lawyer normal of Louisiana, throughout a Weaponization of the Federal Authorities Subcommittee listening to in Washington, D.C., March 30, 2023. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
A video from OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske confirmed Iowa players on the court docket holding palms throughout “The Star-Spangled Banner.” LSU had left the court docket proper earlier than the anthem was performed.
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Mulkey stated after the loss to Iowa her group’s absence was “routine.”
“Actually, I do not even know when the anthem was performed,” Mulkey stated, via OutKick. “We form of have a routine when (our gamers are) on the ground, and so they come off on the 12-minute mark (previous to the sport).”
Head coach Kim Mulkey of the LSU Tigers in the course of the first half in opposition to the Iowa Hawkeyes within the Elite Eight of the NCAA Event at MVP Area April 1, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. (Sarah Stier/Getty Pictures)
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Based on nola.com, neither USC nor UConn have been current for the nationwide anthem earlier than their Elite Eight recreation Monday evening.
The Tigers have not been current for the nationwide anthem all season, and so they weren’t current for it throughout final yr’s nationwide championship.
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