My article is about two football players intentionally hitting a official in the back. My article “Texas coach accused of ordering players to hit referee resigns” was found on CNN.com. Several players from John Jay High School said their assistant coach ordered them to “level the official.” In the video found online, the incident was clearly not an accident. There was rumor that the official, Robert Watts, was calling the players the N- work. Watts denied the comments of racial slurs in his five page statement. Coach Breed, who was currently on administrative leave before his resignation was not allowed to continue coaching until he had met with the Board. I feel that Coach Breed is in a position to teach and mentor children, but not teach them to hurt someone that has done nothing to them. Although Coach Breed denied telling the players to tackle the referee, I wonder why he would resign unless it was true.
If actions like this were to spread around we would have so many injured referees, but also more very rude coaches telling kids to ram the officials.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/us/high-school-players-hit-texas-football-official-hearing/index.htm