Gainesville High appealed 35 of 39 suspensions given out after a fight in their previous playoff game against Brunswick.
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I’m a Florida Gator and if them kids were in the wrong no excuse they need to be held accountable. Don’t wine and cry with the punishment
1. Coach is RIGHT!
2. This is all over the country now like all the other stupid!
3. Administrators every where are trying to make all the 1st graders love, and get along with their DEI BULLSHIT!
4. The officials associations have morphed into "politically correctness"!
5. Officials are INCOMPETENT!
6. I bet the farm that less than 50% of all officials at HS and College level CAN NOT pass a blind standard rules test of 100 questions! (The type that they are supposed to pass to be eligible)
7. Good officials have quit because of leadership!
8. Leadership doesn't want their little click rocked and Good Officials will proove them wrong with the rule book!
9. Good officials that don't kiss a$$ are a threat to the leadership!
10. ANYBODY'S RIGHT TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AFTER BEING ASSAULTED DOES NOT STOP PER THE US CONSTITUTION, BECAUSE THEY ARE ON A FOOTBALL FIELD OR ANY PLACE!!!!!!
I have seen many good officials, the ones with knowledge and integrity quit because of this!
I gave it up about 12 years ago and have predicted that situations like this will be rampant in the future! Well this is what you get folks without having Alpha males who have the knowledge and balls to enforce the rule book as written!
Without discipline, chaos is bliss!
No team has the authority to be on the other teams end of the field during pregame and the Officials are SUPPOSED to be on the field enforcing order!!!!!!
It just breaks my heart for our beloved game!
Retired Professional Fireman/Referee/Veteran
Gainesville is condoning violent rules are the rules no matter where you go
I love this coach's passion. He makes valid points. I feel for the team who is deep in the playoffs and they are without half their team.
Brunswick = THUGS
I watched what happened it’s a shame if Gainesville is punished. I have to look this up to see if they made a decision on appeal
Did they win the appeal
Why did the GHS assistant coaches let their players on the bench enter the field? Head coach goes out on the field and helps stop the fights, assistants stay on the sideline and keep their players from entering the field. You leave the bench, to enter the field, you are suspended. Does not matter why….you do NOT leave the bench to enter the field for any reason. Great speech , but the rule is the rule. You leave the bench to help your "brother" , great you can hold your head high for helping your brother… but you live with the consequences, you are suspended. Your boys did what they thought was the right thing, but the the consequences of that decision is a suspension. Sorry coach, you are wrong.
My question is why did they try to appeal the suspension and not the fine
Gaines =ville will always follow the rules! Thats hilarious
Lousy coach, entitled children. Everyone should pay the price
If there's a video that backs thos coach up. The refs who were there need to be fired, and maybe sued by the kids who were penalized unjustly!!
I live in Cullman, AL and I attended Good Hope High School and played football there, and my son currently in 11th grade, does the same. I’m 40yrs old, but I had the privilege of attending Alabama Football Camps when I was a young fella, and Coach Niblett was always there as an assistant. He was and has always been a passionate coach and a man of Faith who fears the Lord BUT not the world! He was just as passionate teaching us kids that were from anywhere and everywhere that he had no relationship with, as he is in this video here. Coach Niblett also coached at Hoover HS which is about 45 mins from our HS, and I went to watch his teams play several times after I graduated bc of how successful and well coached his teams always were! He is a RESPECTED coach and has ALWAYS stood for the right things.
Hopefully the committee gets this right for the sake of kids and their opportunity to earn something they put countless hours into, and not let an undisciplined program ruin it!
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GAINSVILLE!
That “coach” needs to be fired for allowing this to happen. Neither coach had control their players. And BOTH need to be released immediately and teams suspended for next two years. One can see that even NOW that coach cannot control emotions. What a disgrace to High School football.
Boo-boo it’s always them.
Good coach,
That’s bullshit. Those boys had nothing to lose and Gainesville had everything to lose. At what point can a player defend himself from being actually harmed. Two kids helmets get snatched off and a third gets fucking demolished by the biggest kid on the field. Lucky he didn’t break his fucking neck. GHSA gotta do the right thing and let those boys play
Use this as a time of learning for all individuals involved.
There are rules for the safety of all. The rules are to not storm the field. The GHS athletic department and football coaches have a responsibility to teach players discipline, self control and sportsmanship. That has not been taught or enforced because the players rushed the field and the players on the field should have walked away. The flag was thrown and whistle was blown. No self control. For all those folks who say you have to protect your brothers, I saw a similar incident in September. I saw both teams coaching staffs control their players and the officials handled the affair, having penalties and expelling the offending players from the game. This is about GHS wants to win games, which is fine but own it. It’s not about teaching character and developing good people, it’s about winning games.
any update about this…
I followed coach Nibblet from Hoover (AL) when they won multiple championships. He did things the RIGHT way. I believe this event was just inevitable. 😐
This is a real authentic old school football guy. Man went to war for his guys
"It's the way I've raised these kids."
I think we've found the problem – young men with poor male role models are being led by a coach who obviously can't control his emotions.
Powerful stuff nobody cares
Sounds like a lot of really really bad excuses. Take some of that hair gel out
I’d play for this guy any day and I’m 40😂
I commend him for what he is saying I went to Brunswick high school but he is right
Gainesville should not be penalized in any way.
💯 agreed
Watch this guys attitude!! Anger… no.. he stays suspended
No.. this is unacceptable…DO NOT LIFT SUSPENSIONS…… NO
That was one hell of a speech coach that's a man right there
This is Bull!! I agree totally with you.
Doesn’t matter, your kids should have been more disciplined. Coaches should emphasize this from day one of two a day practices. You don’t charge the field with the whole team to create a brawl.
These coaches are fools!
People who take football seriously need mental help.
Of course he's minimizing himself.
This sounded like a wrestling promo 😂😂😂😂