High School assistant coach admits ordering ref attack

[Mr. Scot]

Assistant tells principal he ordered hit in anger

In a signed statement detailing his interactions with the head coach after the game, John Jay High School principal Robert Harris says the team's secondary coach, Mack Breed, admitted he "directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls."  

On Wednesday, 15-year-old John Jay sophomore Victor Rojas and 17-year-old senior Michael Moreno each attended disciplinary hearings. There was no immediate decision on their punishment.  

On Sept. 4, Rojas and Moreno blindsided official Robert Watts late in the fourth quarter of a game in Marble Falls, Texas, on a deliberate tackle from behind -- captured on video -- that has now been seen on YouTube by more than 11 million people.  

According to a sideline source and the accounts provided to Outside the Lines of four John Jay players, Watts used the N-word twice during the game, once before and once after the infamous hits, and also used language offensive to Hispanics.  

Watts has declined to comment, but his attorney, Alan Goldberger, said Watts denies he used racist remarks of any kind.

 

[Anybodyhome]

Why has no one else come forward to corroborate the claim of offensive language? There were after all, about 30 people on the field and another 100 or so along the sidelines...

Not that any language, regardless of what it is, gives anyone a reason to maliciously attack another individual.

[Cookie Lyon]

I always figured that the coach told those players to hit the referee. Now, it doesn't absolve the players of any blame, but the coach should be punished as well as the referee if the racial comments are confirmed to be true.

[Kevin Greene]

Sad, all 3 are guilty however.

[chknwing]

I think the coach is just taking the wrap for the kids, atleast, thats what I would do.