If you haven't heard this story yet, let me be the first to tell you, "Reality is stranger than fiction."
If I started to tell you about the second winningest coach in girl's high school basketball, what do you think would be so improbable of that coach to do?
If you guessed "bite a player on the cheek during a game", you are correct!
Doyle Wolverton has been the girl's basketball coach at Leake Academy for 38 years. He has won 15 state championship and seven in a row before last season. Wolverton resigned after the incident but I would say a nearly 40 year legacy is completely down the drain over this incident. The parent's have chosen not to press charges. The only reason the incident was reported is because the hospital had to report to the authorities based on the the young lady's injuries.
I know he may be very well respected in community but as a father, I would have a very difficult time allowing this to pass as a minor laspe in judgement. There are lots of egregious acts in the coaching community as of late such as Mike Rice at Rutgers and Carl Pelini at Florida Atlantic (he witnessed people smoking marijuana). Coaches have an obligation to a higher standard because usually these are young people whom parents have entrusted the well being of their children to.
If the leaders, whether teachers or coaches, of the next generation aren't to be trusted, what hope is there for the future?
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I hadn't heard about this incident until I read your blog. That is astonishing to me that such a distinguished figure in sports could commit such an act. However, just like you stated this isn't the only incident to have happened in sports history. And in my opinion just because you have some great players on your team and you witness them committing a criminal act of some sort does not mean you turn a blind eye to keep them on the team. For example with the whole OSU incident, their head coach should have bit the bullet and turned his players in so his future successor and players wouldn't have to suffer playing amazing football and not receiving the bid for a bowl game like they so rightly deserve.
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