A BYU team was the target of a derogatory chant in an opponent’s venue for at least the fourth time in a year, and the Big 12 again announced the conference would look into the matter and the home team offered an apology.
BYU athletic director Brian Santiago wants to break the cycle.
“What we’re trying to do is eliminate the behavior from happening and the apologies that come afterward,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday.
Kevin Young, coach of the 16th-ranked Cougars men’s basketball team, said after a 99-92 loss at Oklahoma State on Wednesday night that he heard “F— The Mormons” chants coming out of the student section.
“It’s a great win for Oklahoma State University. Their fans should be proud,” he said. “It would be great if some class was warranted in there as well. I’ve got four small kids at home. I’m a Mormon. When I go home, they’re going to ask me about it, same way as they asked me about it last year at Arizona. There’s just too much hate in the world to be saying stuff like that. We’ve got enough problems in our world without going at people’s religion and beliefs and whether it’s in vogue or not.”
BYU is the flagship school for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as th …