Black Coach Resigns After Admitting He Ordered the Hit on White Referee

ABC News
September 27, 2015

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Robert Watts was attacked by two Black football players on instructions from their coach.

John Jay High School assistant coach Mack Breed has resigned, according to a statement released by his attorney.

Breed was accused of directing two players to blindside an official during a Sept. 4 game. Breed was supposed to appear this morning before a meeting of the University Interscholastic League in Round Rock, Texas, but now will not speak before the governing body of Texas high school sports.

Outside the Lines reported earlier this week that Breed admitted to the school principal that he ordered the players to strike the official out of anger. Breed told his principal the official was using racist language and had made a series of bad calls.

Breed’s attorney, James Reeves, said in a statement Thursday that the controversy should not rest solely at his client’s feet.

“Some people are unfairly blaming one man, Mack Breed, for everything that happened at that game,” Reeves said. “Mack Breed has spent three agonizing weeks contemplating his future since the fateful football game in which two players struck a referee. It has been a difficult road for Mack as he has stood silently watching the spectacle. He has replayed that game in his mind many times wondering how it all went wrong.”

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Mack Breed has now resigned and is trying to blame the players who were just obeying his orders.

Breed’s resignation comes a day after the two players, 15-year-old Victor Rojas and 17-year-old Michael Moreno, were told they would be eligible to return to their school for the spring semester, the players’ lawyer told ESPN on Wednesday. The decision came after individual hearings were held by the Northside Independent School District in San Antonio.

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