[Orange Blaze]

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I watched this dozens of times this morning. I paused, played, paused, played, etc.. for an hour or more trying to go frame by frame and tried to look at it objectively.  As the inertia from the coach first began pulling the young man to the right the player bends his right knee in an upward motion and goes down. (At that instant there was no foot or anything else that could've tripped him.) Would this be the normal reaction from someone trying to maintain their balance? Of course not...but...as others have said....the coach should have stepped between the players and not put his hands on anyone. This is lighting up social media right now which is unfortunate. This is a situation where both head coaches should handle this "in house' but now that will be impossible. Don't get me wrong, what the coach did was wrong and inexcusable but at the same time the young man should realize that his action made this situation a lot more offensive to the eye and will spark a wildfire in today's electronic age.

Let me clarify, as a Raceland resident and supporter of my school for years, both monetarily in taxes and as a fan, I am NOT taking the coaches side. There are no sides here, everyone loses. The coach instigated this by putting his hands on an opposing team's player. He was wrong, period. His reaction heading towards the sidelines makes me think he is a hothead, period. I merely stated, by my interpretation of physics, and in my opinion, the young man went to the ground when he could've prevented it. There was not one effort to catch himself.  Also, to clarify, if he hadn't gone to the ground this is something that could be handled in house, not now, given the situation. I also think a meeting between the coaches, the player, his parents, school administrators, etc. would be very beneficial.

At this point I think a KHSAA representative would need to be part of such a meeting as well.

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The worst part about incidents like that is it takes away from what actually happened on the game. This unfortunate incident has kept us from talking about good things that happened such as Raceland having over 400 yards rushing and having a player go over 200 yards.