Football Coach Suspends Entire Team Because Of Bad Behavior

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A high school football coach in Utah is receiving national attention for suspending every player on his team. The coach decided to suspend 80 players in total because of a combination of players skipping class, bad grades, and being accused of cyber-bullying a fellow student.

CBS News reported that just last week,?Union High School football coach Matt Labrum?told his players that the football season would be over until they earned their way back onto the team. The decision was supported by the coaching staff, the school, and the parents.

The coach met with Utah?s KSL-TV?to discuss the suspensions saying ?It just felt like everything was going in a direction that we didn?t want our young men going. We felt like we needed to make a stand. They are just excellent men. Sometimes we do think we?re bigger than the game.?

Labrum laid out a mandatory criteria that each player would need to meet in order to rejoin the squad: attend all practices, be on time, have no discipline problems. Each player would also need to complete a community service project and memorize a quote about good character.

It took only a week for some of the players to start turning around their bad behavior.?Not all of the team met that criteria, but most did, and they will be able to take the field for the school?s?homecoming game on Friday.

Source: http://kmps.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/football-coach-suspends-entire-team-because-of-bad-behavior/

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