There’s a lot happening here, but if you are from there, and if you walked past “the schoolhouse door” every day for years, and if your heart broke and your face burned with shame MANY times in your life because of the actions of people who just want to CLING to ignorance... https://twitter.com/finessebryan/status/1300541382331953155

It’s an enormous deal. And you can say it’s about recruiting, but he did not have to do it. He literally doesn’t have to do anything — the man will win 3 percent of the vote for US PRESIDENT in write-ins. He could make a smaller gesture, but Foster Auditorium! That is very big.

I’ve literally prayed that he would go off one day and outright denounce Trump. He won’t, but I live for the possibility. This is closer than I ever thought he would get and for that school it is generations overdue.

(Stands as Alma Mater begins to play in the distance) In the name of Paul Bryant and all the saints, amen.