Riley Gaines

Come on.

Do they have the right to do that?

Is it anywhere established that they can dictate who you're allowed to communicate with in the media?

Has this ever been an issue before where they can restrict your ability to communicate?

Not that I know of.

I will say, and I'll be honest here, my school, University of Kentucky, the athletic side of the university and of this space

treated me awesome.

Like my athletic director, Mitch Barnhart at Kentucky, who's been there for 20 plus years, an incredible Christian, just an incredible standup guy who leads with, by example, he's a wonderful human.

He's always been supportive of me.

Not even necessarily my stance, but supportive of me, which means a lot.

And my coach, Lars Jorgensen, who had coached there for 10 years at the time, amazing and supportive of me.

But a lot of the kind of silencing and submission stuff came from the academic academia side or the compliance side of things.

So my athletic side of my university was wonderful.

But, yeah, the compliance side.

I was even told specifically, Riley, remember you signed a scholarship.

And when you sign that scholarship, they went as far to say you gave away your rights to speak in your own personal capacity.

Remember, you represent us.

Remember whose name is across your chest and across your cap because it's not your own.

It's ours.

This is specifically said.