BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — Many would say they expect a football coach to be tough on his players. However, an investigation has been launched against two coaches because some say their behavior went too far. After reviewing video footage captured of the incident, the Louisiana Youth Football, agrees.
“After the first three seconds of the video, we knew they had gone too far,” Leroy Hollins II, Director of the Louisiana Youth Football, explained. “There will be disciplinary action. Once we know who the two coaches on the video are, they will face disciplinary action for not only this year, but next year as well.”
The incident occurred on Sunday, Oct. 21 at roughly 2:40 p.m. during halftime of a youth football game being held at BREC’s Perkins Road Park. A group of individuals located on the nearby softball fields heard a commotion and went to investigate. They say what they witnessed was shocking.
The halftime rant lasted for nearly 10 minutes and caught the attention of roughly two dozen individuals, who were located between 50-75 yards away.
“We all kind of stood there for a minute and asked each other, ‘Is he really yelling at little kids?’ Laura Kelley, a softball player who witnessed the incident, explained. “We all stood there and stared in disbelief.”
“Those kids couldn’t have been older than 8 or 9 maybe 10 years-old,” Danny Collins, Jr., another softball player, added. “I heard the coach yelling at the kids and telling them that they need to be hitting hard and playing harder because he’s going to run them into the ground next week.”
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