in person. The irony is that Fields had no idea he had a racial slur yelled at him since the kid was in the stands, but the students around him turned him in and after that Fields found out.

I assume that would be applying duct tape to every fan that enters a stadium on the off chance they utter something that offends a potential starting QB for another school.

insulted if others hadn’t called attention to the slur. And if he did not know he’d been insulted, he would not have left the school. Or, if he did leave, he would have had to sit out a year.

An interesting twist, I guess.

Not intended to minimize the wrongness of the slur in the first place, nor the negative consequences the player experienced from the slur.

Somewhat outside of the point here, but I believe players should be permitted to transfer without any period of ineligibility.