((HT: Chattanooga Free Press/WRCB-TV))
The number of Marion County (TN) football coaches off the job is now at four... including head coach Mac McCurry...
Our original coverage of the weirdness starts hyah...
Now, two assistants have been let go and McCurry resigned- even as McCurry hasn't been brought up on charges...
Here's the latest update...
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Assistant Joe Dan Gudger is now up on identical charges as former Marion County assistant Michael Schmitt- vandalism of $1,000-$10,000. Volunteer assistant Tim Starkey was also relieved of duty...
It gets better... or worse... depending on how you're looking at it...
The Chattanooga News Stephen Hargis has mandatory reading on the complete degradation of the story and the Marion County program...
Evidence is out in text messages that alludes to coaches stealing playbooks of neighboring programs and paying a former player to come back to practice with the team- and the player was from a rival school to prepare Marion for THAT school's offense...
From Hargis:
Starkey alludes to Schmitt, who lives in Dunlap, having also taken playbooks from Sequatchie County, before the Indians' game against Marion County on Sept. 27. According to Sequatchie County Principal Tommy Layne, after checking with head coach Ken Colquette, the football team is missing two playbooks from its fieldhouse. Marion rallied in the second half to score the last four touchdowns in that game to beat Sequatchie County 52-28.
"If you have no better morals than this, you don't need to be around kids in any way," said Layne, who also is a member of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Board of Control. "I'm just in shock at all of this. I've never, in all my years as an educator and coach, heard of anything as bad as this. It just makes you sick. You feel bad for the kids at Marion for having men like this as their role models."
The TSSAA, the state governing body for high school athletics, is even set to discuss the idea of giving the death penalty to Marion County's football program. They are waiting, however, for the criminal proceedings to get sorted out...
This is not the first time McCurry has been relieved of duty for questionable behavior...
In May 2010, he was let go by a school for 2 alleged DUI and a domestic assault charge...
Here's what one message board alluded to with McCurry's coaching wake:
Moore County- shambles
Marshall County- wrecked
Ripley Miss- Destroyed
Lakeview HS- Left after one game.Bailed on the kids
Signal Mnt- Recruiting scandal...1 year
One larger question the HQ has is the idea of a "show cause" penalty and whether it exists with high school coaches who have had nothing but trouble at every stop...
Seems like the coaches in and around the Marion County program may be the prime examples for this idea of it doesn't currently exist...
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