The College of South Carolina’s athletics division issued an apology to LSU and girls’s basketball participant Flau’Jae Johnson on Sunday in response to the Gamecocks’ DJ enjoying a music by Johnson’s late father on the finish of Friday’s sport between the groups at Colonial Life Area. The athletics division stated the DJ, referred to as T.O., could be suspended for a sport.
“We’re addressing Friday night time’s inappropriate in-game music choice and subsequent [social media] submit by the DJ who’s employed to work our ladies’s basketball video games,” South Carolina’s assertion learn. “Her actions have been understandably upsetting to Flau’Jae Johnson and her household and disrespectful to the LSU program and followers.”
No. 2 South Carolina defeated No. 5 LSU 66-56 in Columbia, South Carolina, in a sport that was pushed again a day by climate points that delayed LSU’s journey.
The music “Reduce Associates” by the rapper Camouflage, who was Johnson’s father, Jason Johnson, was performed because the Gamecocks celebrated their victory. Flau’Jae Johnson thought that was in poor style. Her father was killed in a taking pictures in Georgia in 2003, about six months earlier than she was born.
“I am going to take my L on the chin, however this simply nasty habits. Nun humorous bout that,” Johnson wrote on social media.
The DJ initially replied to the Johnson’s remark with “My unhealthy” and a laughing emoji. However she then issued an apology, writing, “It’s by no means my intent to disrespect anybody or offend anybody when my job is to have enjoyable and ensure different folks have a superb time. … I have been enjoying [the song] for years, even at different video games, however I should not have performed it at yesterday’s sport.”
South Carolina stated it is going to be speaking extra to the DJ concerning the state of affairs.
“Convention rivalries and passionate fan bases ought to solely serve to boost sports activities, not be used to focus on particular person gamers personally,” South Carolina’s assertion learn. “We remorse that it got here to that in our venue after a sport that noticed each groups seize the extent of nationwide consideration that ladies’s basketball has earned, and we apologize to Flau’Jae, her household and LSU.
“Because of her actions, DJ T.O. will likely be suspended for the following ladies’s basketball house sport, and we’ll meet along with her to offer additional training on our expectations of her sooner or later.”
