If five-star recruit Marlon Humphrey is going to bolster an SEC defense next year, chances are it’s not going to be at Ole Miss.
The Hoover cornerback, who is the top prospect in the state of Alabama in the Class of 2014, began tweeting Monday afternoon about a Ku Klux Klan march at Ole Miss. He later apologized. According to a College Football Talk report, Humphrey and his brother took an unofficial visit to Oxford, and he issued the following tweet:
@Dan_Buggs3 when I went down there with my brother they had a KKK march
— Tyga Sims lll (@marlon_humphrey) June 24, 2013
“@kbouyerxo: @DonnieLeeJr @marlon_humphrey have you been?! Lol” yes I went they had a KKK march and everybody decommitted
— Tyga Sims lll (@marlon_humphrey) June 24, 2013
“@theitalianguy14: @marlon_humphrey if ole miss is so racist, why would we vote a black girl to be homecoming queen?” To look not racist
— Tyga Sims lll (@marlon_humphrey) June 24, 2013
Rallies at Ole Miss aren’t nonexistent, but one hasn’t occurred in years. According to a report in The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, the last known KKK rally at Ole Miss was in 2009, when approximately 12 members of the group protested the school’s removal of "From Dixie with Love" from its song list.
Humphrey's tweet, as you'd expect, set off a firestorm among Rebels fans — though to his credit, he did retweet a number of them.
On Monday night, he first he issued his first apology, writing "I'm sorry if I offended you Ole Miss fans." He then issued a two-tweet mea culpa to the Ole Miss staff.
The 6-foot, 174-pound cornerback, who is the 10th-ranked player in Scout's 2014 prospect list, has narrowed his choices down to 11 schools, with Alabama, Mississippi State, Oregon, South Carolina and USC among the list.
