(function()var src_url=”https://spshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?playList=519063629&height=&width=100&sid=577&origin=SOLR&videoGroupID=174903&relatedNumOfResults=100&responsive=true&ratio=wide&align=center&relatedMode=2&relatedBottomHeight=60&companionPos=&hasCompanion=false&autoStart=false&colorPallet=%23FFEB00&videoControlDisplayColor=%23191919&shuffle=0&isAP=1&pgType=cmsPlugin&pgTypeId=addToPost-top&onVideoDataLoaded=track5min.DL&onTimeUpdate=track5min.TC&onVideoDataLoaded=HPTrack.Vid.DL&onTimeUpdate=HPTrack.Vid.TC”;if (typeof(commercial_video) == “object”) src_url += “&siteSection=”+commercial_video.site_and_category;if (commercial_video.package) src_url += “&sponsorship=”+commercial_video.package;}var script = document.createElement(“script”);script.src = src_url;script.async = true;var placeholder = document.querySelector(“.js-fivemin-script”);placeholder.parentElement.replaceChild(script, placeholder);})(); An assistant coach for the two Texas high school football players who violently…
An assistant coach for the two Texas high school football players who violently ;tackled a referee in a Sept. 4 game ;has admitted he ordered his players to make the hits.
Mack Breed, a football coach at John Jay High School in San Antonio, Texas, is said to have ;”directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls,” according to a signed statement written by John Jay High School principal Robert Harris. Breed was placed on administrative leave on Sept. 9. ;
“I later met with Coach Breed at John Jay High School … in my office in the presence of Coach Gutierrez … ;He wanted to take full responsibility for his actions. Mr. Breed at one point during our conversation stated that he should have handled the referee himself,” Harris also wrote. ;
Harris’ statement confirms claims made by the two players, sophomore Victor Rojas and senior Michael Moreno, who said they ;simply followed Breed’s orders.
The suspended students ;appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” last Thursday, where they ;placed the blame for the incident on Breed. But they also affirmed previous allegations ;that the referee in question, Robert Watts, directed ;racist language at black and Hispanic players on the field. ;
According to a source on the sidelines at the infamous game between John Jay and Marble Falls High School in Marble Falls, Texas, as well as four additional John Jay players, Watts used the N-word twice, once before the hit and again after it, and also directed racist language at a Hispanic player, according to ESPN. Watts ;continues to deny the use of any racist words. ;
Rojas, 15, and Moreno, 17, have been assigned to an alternative school and are barred from watching John Jay games, according to ESPN. They will attend disciplinary hearings on Wednesday.
While Breed hasn’t publicly spoken about what he told his players, he’s expected to attend ;a hearing of the University Interscholastic League on Thursday in Round Rock, Texas. There, the governing body of Texas high school athletics will decide on sanctions for Breed and John Jay’s football program. ;
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