This is reminiscent of the sad situation at Manatee a few years back.
The principal was moved over the summer, Head Coach Dixon and an assistant fired right before their pre-season game, and the AD resigned last week. There was a very emotional schoolboard meeting with kids wearing shirts in support of the coach.
One young man, fighting back tears was pretty eloquent: “I was coached four years to tell the truth, to show character, to show integrity and to stand up for what I believe in. I believe this man has been wrongfully persecuted. This is a man who has donated so much of his time to myself and my teammates. And I can’t thank him enough. When you have a family as a son or daughter, you have to love them. But when you find someone that loves you that’s not a family member, that’s special. And that is coach Dixon.”
Another parent, however claimed in the papers the coach told the kids who were being questioned what to say and was trying to protect some of his best players.
This got ugly. But when the even uglier act that precipitated it, happened last spring, we knew it would.
The principal was moved over the summer, Head Coach Dixon and an assistant fired right before their pre-season game, and the AD resigned last week. There was a very emotional schoolboard meeting with kids wearing shirts in support of the coach.
One young man, fighting back tears was pretty eloquent: “I was coached four years to tell the truth, to show character, to show integrity and to stand up for what I believe in. I believe this man has been wrongfully persecuted. This is a man who has donated so much of his time to myself and my teammates. And I can’t thank him enough. When you have a family as a son or daughter, you have to love them. But when you find someone that loves you that’s not a family member, that’s special. And that is coach Dixon.”
Another parent, however claimed in the papers the coach told the kids who were being questioned what to say and was trying to protect some of his best players.
This got ugly. But when the even uglier act that precipitated it, happened last spring, we knew it would.