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It's a sad situation all around. Pulling a kid from a team before the playoffs regardless if you are wrong or right just hurt all the kids involved. This is the true tragedy of the situation. It is a scar the kids will have to live with for a long time. Eventually I hope that all who were involved in this whether they are wrong or right (or perhaps both) can find some kind of closure and forgiveness. The handling of the situation could have been done better without hurting so many kids.

Noble You are a good man and an excellent parent, don't inject yourself into a situation where a coach yes a coach not a parent destroyed a very fine football team with a 7 win no loss record, he made unnessary changes that resulted in losing the next two games and couldn't even score an extra point, you know that the team was destroyed the game before the kid was pulled so don't destroy your reputation as a coach, a gentleman, a fine players father. I would guarentee you, you would have done the same thing with your son if he had been the QUARTERBACK started all 7 games and ,one of the stars of a undefeated TEAM, any other position maybe not but the QB that is different. If you didn't you wouldn't be as dedicated to your son as I think you are. Can you imagine what that did to that kid with just that many games to go? I would have brought my kid off and done everthing I could to stomp his donkey, Not only did it destroy any chance they had for the future, but put one of the nicest kids you ever knew in the worst position he will probably ever be in - ever in his life. The Poor Kid is a heck of an athlete, and he didn't deserve it.