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An Illinois State<\/a> football coach abruptly quit the team Thursday, leaving a note on the door while exiting the facility.<\/p>\n

Kurt Beathard, who was the Redbirds\u2019 offensive coordinator, told The Pantagraph<\/a>\u00a0he let a note that said \u201cAll Lives Matter to Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ\u201d before he left. Officials told the newspaper Wednesday he was no longer a part of the team and declined to comment on why he abruptly left.<\/p>\n

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His departure apparently followed an incident involving a \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d poster in the locker room. Sources told The Pantagraph that the poster was taken down from the Illinois State locker room in the school\u2019s football building. Beathard denied any involvement in the locker room saying that someone put a sign on his door and that he took that down.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat locker room crap is wrong. I took the sign down somebody put on my door. That\u2019s it,\u201d Beathard told the newspaper. \u201cI didn\u2019t take anything off that wasn\u2019t put on my door. I wrote the message.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beathard\u2019s departure came weeks after players had an issue with athletic director Larry Lyons using the phrase \u201cAll Redbird Lives Matter\u201d in a video conference, according to the newspaper. Some student-athletes boycotted workouts because of it and\u00a0 a march supporting Black voices was held.<\/p>\n

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Beathard returned to Illinois State in 2018 \u2013 his third stint with the program. He\u2019s spent 15 years as a coordinator in the FCS. He played in the USFL and Arena Football League.<\/p>\n

His nephew, C.J. Beathard, is a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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