Brent Key Voices Need For Change Following Nashville Shooting

Georgia Tech's Brent Key gave a compassionate speech on Wednesday

Georgia Tech was back at spring practice today and after practice was finished, Yellow Jackets head coach Brent Key was scheduled to speak to the media afterward. 

Key gives an opening statement before taking questions, but today he wanted to talk about the recent shooting in Nashville that left six dead, including three children. Key gave a passionate speech about the need for change and here is what he had to say today:

"I want to address the tragedy that happened in Nashville. I don't want to make any political or religious statements or anything about that and I will not do that. Something has to change. My mom was a third-grade school teacher her whole career, I have a four-year-old daughter, she is about to be five, was at a school play when that happened. I can't even like, the whole rest of the day, my wife cried four or five times during the day. That is magnified my millions across the world. But again, there is nothing political and nothing religious being made about this, but something has to change. I have a chance to stand up here and be in front of a camera. One person hears me say that and agrees and does something to help force a change and something to happen and a thousand other people say something negative about it, I don't care. Because it worked. And if this one thing that I say helps somebody else say something and have the guts to stand up and say something then maybe somebody will have the guts to stand up and do something, then maybe something will happen! But as long as people sit there and bicker and argue, more and more kids are going to die, because it has not changed. Something has to change! Everybody please, do something. Whoever listens to this, send it somewhere else. Send it to somebody, I don't know. Let's all do something together to help. This is the most heartbreaking thing in the world, to think about your daughter, going to school, where she is supposed to be safe and protected. It is. I don't care who tweets at me. I really don't. Maybe that will pick up some steam"

Here is the video of the speech from the AJC's Ken Sugiura:

Brent Key makes emotional plea following tragic shooting deaths in Nashville. Key’s mother was a third-grade teacher. “Something’s got to chance.” pic.twitter.com/d5zV3zBZ1o

— Ken Sugiura (@ksugiuraajc) March 29, 2023

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