At Columbia, the texts in question were private communications among friends. At UL Lafayette, the players' expression took place while they were changing in a locker room. But that was of no importance to Robert Daigle, the chairman of the UL Lafayette athletic department's fundraising arm, who told the Louisiana newspaper The Daily Advertiser that "regardless of the venue or the location that these things take place, the athletes need to understand that nothing they can do or say should deemed private."