After an earlier dispute with coach Mike Norvell, Florida State linebacker Marvin Wilson thanked the Seminoles coach for „encouraging me to use my platform and speak for what me and teammates believe in.“
Florida State star defensive lineman Marvin Wilson said he had to take a stand for college athletes and George Floyd when he disputed Mike Norvell’s account of how the coach responded to the team following Floyd’s death last week in Minneapolis.
After a team meeting Thursday morning, Wilson released an Instagram post in which he thanked Norvell for „encouraging me to use my platform and speak for what me and teammates believe in.“
Took a stand we got what we wanted & we are moving forward ????!!! I appreciate @coachnorvell for encouraging me to use my platform and speak for what me and teammates believe in. Be the change that you need when you was growing up and help build black communities up and take back what is ours
A post shared by Marvin Wilson (@themarvinwilson) on Jun 4,2020 at 10:16am PDT
Wilson said the team came away from the meeting with three goals: voter registration for players, fundraising efforts to help send more black children to college, and fundraising specifically to help children in Tallahassee, Florida.
„Me being a man of color, I want to be that change,“ Wilson said. „I’m going to be an educated millionaire with a degree. And I’ll be able to tell those kids that you can be whatever you want in this world if you put your mind to it and you work hard, because you come from royalty.
