Four-star offensive tackle recruit Jean Delance's decision to decommit from Oklahoma had nothing to do with the team or its staff, but everything to do with the news surrounding the campus on Monday.
Delance, a class-of-2016 recruit from Mesquite, Texas, announced his decision to reconsider his commitment to the Sooners on Monday. On Tuesday, he explained that the infamous frat video was the cause of it.
"Very uneducated people. I wouldn't want my son or child to go there or to anywhere like that," Delance told CBS 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth, according to Jake Trotter of ESPN. "It was just very disturbing to me. I didn't like it."
"I've had family history in racial issues, inequality," Delance's mother, Altavian, said. "Jean knows these things are serious to us."
A video showing members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity reciting racially motivated chants took over social media Monday. It resulted in backlash from Sooners linebacker Eric Striker and a peaceful protest that teammates and head coach Bob Stoops participated in.
The school's president David Boren expelled two students that were identified in the video, and members at the local frat house were informed to remove their personal belongings from the location.
