Texas High School Coach Cheating?

[BevoBlake]

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I mean that's pretty blatant. Hot damn.

Edit: Coach and ref are claiming it was a poker chip used by the opposing teams band.

 

[Hiphopopotamos]

Holy crap.  I mean - it could be something else - but I don't know what.

One of the tweets replying to it says that it was a poker chip - something the bands use to mark their spot.  seems odd he'd give it to him in a handshake though.

 

[UTK66]

It looks fishy to say the least. Gonna have to get the video broke down better to try and get a better view of what was handed off. Could've been money are any number of other things.

 

[BevoBlake]

Holy crap. I mean - it could be something else - but I don't know what.

I just edited my OP. The coach and ref are claiming it was a poker chip used by the opposing teams band. Don't know I buy that necessarily. But possible I suppose.

 

[Hiphopopotamos]

I just edited my OP. The coach and ref are claiming it was a poker chip used by the opposing teams band. Don't know I buy that necessarily. But possible I suppose.

Just saw that - not sure why he'd give it to him in a handshake, or why he'd give it to the ref at all.

 

[The Bry-Man81]

But why pass a poker chip so shady-like?

In fact, why are you giving the ref a poker chip in the first place? Is there a logical reason for that?

 

[BevoBlake]

I agree. There was so much surety in that handshake. Like he wanted to make sure that the ref didn't drop it. Apparently they had found the chips before the game and were passing them to each other.

Again, I don't know if I buy that. And both the coach and ref should know that passing something to each other post game after a victory could appear shady. The ref having a chip in his backpack doesn't prove anything IMO. Clearly there were multiple chips, so he could have one in his pack for that reason alone.

 

[Godz40acres]

This video purporting to show a Texas High School football coach bribing a referee after a game has been making the rounds on social media this week. The game in question between Calhoun Lavaca and B.F. Terry took place last Thursday, and Calhoun won 43-20. Reached by phone for comment, Calhoun coach Richard Whitaker expressly denies that he was giving the referee money.

“Prior to the game Thursday night, there were poker chips laying on the field,†Whitaker told me. “These poker chips, we found out later, were being used by one of the bands that uses the field. They use them as markers. Prior to the game, Terry football coach Tim Tekyl — he and I have been friends for many years, since the mid-90’s — he reaches down and picks up one of those chips, hands it to me, and says, ‘Put this in your pocket. It will bring you good luck tonight.’ This was all in good humor.â€

“And so, after the game, again all in good humor, I reached out and handed the poker chip to the official,†Whitaker continued. “What you don’t see on the video is when he passes by, he sees it’s a cheap poker chip. He starts laughing, I start laughing, we point at each other, and I walked off. That is it. Coach Tekyl can tell you the same story. The official has been contacted. He has the poker chip in his bag. It’s a meaningless poker chip with no value whatsoever. He has it in the bag with his whistle. That’s the story. If social media wants to make this out to be something else, that’s not true.â€

http://thebiglead.com/2015/10/20/texas-high-school-football-bribe-video/

 

[CoachEmUp64]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/high-schools/headlines/20151020-texas-high-school-coach-accused-of-bribing-official-clears-up-misunderstanding-that-swept-social-media.ece

 

[dillohorn]

Nothing to see here it seems to me.

 

[The Bry-Man81]

Yea, I wasn't sure that there was a story that I would believe in this case.

But I believe him.

 

[Bear19]

Nothing to see here it seems to me.

Ditto

Except for the fact that social media can be very destructive.