Georgia Tech football coach Brent Key broke down in tears during his post-practice news conference Wednesday as he issued a plea for “change” in light of the school shooting Monday in Nashville.

Key opened his media availability by saying he “doesn’t want to make any political statement or religious statements or anything about that, but something’s got to change.”

“My mom was a third-grade school teacher her whole career, and I’ve got a four-year-old daughter, about to be five, who was doing a school play when that happened,” he said. “There’s nothing political and nothing religious made about this but something has to change. And I had a chance to stand up here and be in front of a camera, and if one person hears me say that, and agrees, and does something to help force the change and something to happen and 1,000 other people say something negative about it, I don’t care — because it worked.”