This is great to see! A video of TCU’s coach, Kaz Kazadi, delivering a strong speech to his players about consent and sexual harassment is currently making rounds on social media.
Kazadi, who serves as the assistant athletic director for football human performance (strength and conditioning coach) is preparing his players for their upcoming season, but took the time to talk to his players about how to interact with women. In the viral video Kazadi can be heard saying, “If your with a young lady she has to consent to every act. So if you were in the car with her and something went down in the car that doesn’t mean something has to go down in the apartment.”Â
“If y’all did something in the car that doesn’t mean something else has to happen.” He continues, “That next day you cannot assume that its Ok to send a d*ck pic or something like that. If your in study hall and a track star walks by you and she’s got tights on and she’s going to study you cannot say look at that fat a**. Thats f**** sexual harassment. She has every right to turn around and press charges against you.”Â
A lesson on Consent with Coach Eron Hodges of TCU football… pic.twitter.com/MBCeUq10jf
— Conscious Lee (@TheConsciousLee) March 26, 2023
The viral video has people praising the coach for his speech and we are glad to see a black man giving this free game to his players. Kazadi, who also worked at Arkansas State and with the Dallas Cowboys, was a member of the strength and conditioning staff at Baylor from 2008-16. He served as the Associate Athletics Director for Athletic Performance during his last five seasons with the Bears. In 2013, he was named the American Football Coaches Association Strength Coach of the Year and the American Football Monthly FBS Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. FootballScoop.com named him its National Strength Coach of the Year in 2012.
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In 2007, Kazadi was an assistant strength coach at USF where he helped the Bulls reach as high as No. 2 in the national polls with an appearance in the Brut Sun Bowl. From 2005-07, Kazadi was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs’ staff.
A standout linebacker at Tulsa, Kazadi earned All-Western Athletic Conference honors and was a Butkus Award semifinalist. He received his bachelor’s degree from Tulsa in sociology with a psychology minor. He went on to earn his master’s degree at Missouri in counseling psychology with an emphasis in health promotion and sport psychology while serving as a graduate assistant.