As outrage boiled across the country one year ago following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, I spent an afternoon reaching out to people across college football with one question: Where were the coaches? 

It had become clear pretty quickly that athletes were going to play a lead role in demanding that the entire country, not just Black America, invest in equality and understand the need to address police violence.

But even as protests were popping up across the country and many college athletes were publicly sharing their emotional turmoil, only a few coaches had even acknowledged the injustice that occurred on the afternoon of May 29 — the day Chauvin was arrested, four days after Floyd’s death. Chauvin was later convicted for the murder of Floyd.