Herm Edwards thinks America can change
ASU coach: ‘We gotta huddle up as a country’
Arizona State football coach Herm Edwards shared his thoughts on the reaction to George Floyd’s death and the protests occurring throughout the country as part of it on ESPN’s Golic and Wingo on Tuesday, saying “we gotta get together. We gotta huddle up as a country and talk about these issues so we can progress.”
Edwards said he thinks the country could turn to a part of football for help — the huddle.
“It’s one thing to have a conversation, but who are you having a conversation with? This is an uncomfortable conversation for a lot of people,” Edwards told the show. “And I think this is where sports is so unique: the huddle. And when you think about the huddle in football or in life, people come from all different walks of life and different beliefs. But they come in there, and they have this conversation of what it’s gonna take to be successful — not only as a football team, but in life. And I think until we can get groups together and have a conversation, communicate, then we always run to our corners and say, ‘This is what it is.’”
Edwards has never been afraid to share his thoughts.
In April, he shared a message of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic on ESPN’s Get Up!
On Tuesday, he opened up about the current state of our nation and the possibility for change.
“It’s gonna take time for it to change,” he said on the Golic and Wingo Show, “but I think because of the emotion we have right now as a country, people are starting to have this conversation. And you gotta have this conversation, to be quite honest, at the supper table with your kid, if you have a young kid, and tell ‘em this is not right.
“America’s better than this.”
Edwards likened the current situation to when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968.
“The young generation is kinda going through what I went through in 1968, when I watched it all happen,” Edwards said. “I was involved in it. I was involved in watching our country go through these growing pains. And the voices that haven’t been heard, they want to be heard. It’s a shame, because now, with the violence and the looting, it’s hijacking the message. And you don’t want that to take place. That should never take place. But that’s kinda what’s happened the last couple nights.”
Edwards shared advice for his players on the show.
“You just gotta look at it from the perspective of, you guys get to change this country, you have an opportunity to do this for your kids.”