Texas HS Football Coach Who Reportedly Told Players To Attack Ref Resigns

The assistant football coach at John Jay High School in San Antonio who reportedly admitted to telling his players to attack a referee during a game earlier this month has resigned, according to ESPN.

Breed’s attorney, James Reeves, released a statement Thursday:

“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.”

Breed reportedly admitted to telling his players to attack a referee during a game on Sept. 4.

He allegedly told head coach Gary Gutierrez after the game that he ordered the players to take out referee Robert Watts, according to a letter obtained by ESPN’s Outside The Lines.

“I later met with Coach Breed at John Jay High School...in my office in the presence of Coach Gutierrez,” Principal Robert Harris wrote in the letter. “Coach Breed told me that he directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls. 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.”

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[PHOTO: John Jay High School]