How to get everybody fired

[Mr. Scot]

Wow...

High School cancels football season, fires entire coaching staff

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A St. Louis high school has cancelled the rest of their football season and fired every coach on staff after a suspended player wore a different number and participated in a game. Cardinal Ritter College Prep, which was undefeated at 7-0, suspended the rest of their season after junior running back Bill Jackson was found to have played in their season opener, even though he was supposed to be serving a one-game suspension, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The RB was given the suspension after being ejected from last year's title game, but the team found a way to disguise Jackson, or so they thought.

Instead of his normal No. 4, he wore No. 24 and went under a freshman named "Marvin Burks." It was Jackson's tattoos that ended up giving him away. Jackson, as well as head coach Brandon Gregory, both went along with the lie that the junior didn't play, despite him actually putting up 109 yards on the ground and scoring a 56-yard touchdown in the 32-21 win. 

Gregory told the Post-Dispatch that the imaginary freshman Burks, "earned" the start and that "it was his time to play ball." Jackson also put his acting skills to the test, telling the newspaper that "watching last week, it wasn't fun at all. It gave me a spark."

As a result of the incident in the most recent game, Cardinal Ritter school president Tamiko Armstead decided to void the entire season. The school also announced that every person on the coaching staff has been "permanently released."

[cookinwithgas]

Need more of that kind of thinking everywhere but particularly in schools.

[Mr. Scot]

The part where they tried to cheat or the part where they fired the entire staff?

[Pejorative Miscreant]

But it seemed like a good idea at the time...

[PanthersBigD]

The old Leon Sandcastle trick...

 

[Ja Rhule]

14 hours ago, cookinwithgas said:

Need more of that kind of thinking everywhere but particularly in schools.

And government

[Mr. Scot]

These people are part of the educational system.

You'd think they'd at least have given some consideration to covering his distinctive tattoos.

[LinvilleGorge]

It's unbelievable they thought they could get away with it. How could they be so stupid? Hell, how did they evidently get away with it for 6-7 weeks?

At least kids learned a valuable lesson. If you're talented enough, excuses will be made for you and you'll get to play be a completely different set of rules than the rest of the population.

[Davidson Deac II]

They also learned that when you are caught making exceptions for special players at a Catholic school, you and the entire team get fired.  

[R0CKnR0LLA]

the weirdest part of this story is that this is a kid in high school but has noticeable distinctive tattoos, enough to give his identity away