Gamblin, who is black, said he never heard Davie use the n-word or any other racial slur. Nor did he hear Davie, at a team meeting, tell players to “get me some dirt,” on a woman who had accused a player of rape - nor did he hear Davie refer to the woman in a derogatory fashion. The word that best encapsulates Gamblin’s feelings toward Davie, perhaps, is gratitude. Gamblin, a productive but smallish wide receiver from Mesquite, Texas, had few scholarship offers coming out of high school. Davie extended one and brought Gamblin to Albuquerque in 2013. During his freshman year, Gamblin said, Davie told him, “`You’re a lot better than I thought you were gonna be. I...
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