OSG High: Civil Suit Filed In Coach Assault Case

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This is an unfortunate story that the HQ has had to follow for a while...

Former Warren County (GA) head football coach David Daniel has gone ahead and filed a civil lawsuit against neighboring Hancock County, their Board of Education, two sheriff's deputies, and the football player he alleges assaulted him two seasons ago during a post-game melee...

Back on October 14th, 2011 after a game in Hancock County, when the fight started outside the Warren County locker room, the suit says, deputies Richard Mayweather, Tampa Lewis and Patrick Williams pepper-sprayed the Warren players but did not restrain the other team. The suit also says Hancock player Kendrez Mayweather struck Daniel on the face and head with his helmet.

Here's where you can read the suit...all 19 pages of it...

Daniel says he's been unable to work and needed extensive surgery for his face, brain and eye. He also had to undergo repeated rehab sessions in Atlanta- 2-and-a-half hours away from his last job.

From WMAZ-TV:

The lawsuit says Hancock County school failed to provide proper security and that the number of officers assigned to the game was not adequate.

The district's "deliberately indifferent" security helped cause the brawl and Daniel's injuries, the suit said.

You'll recall that a grand jury in Hancock County failed to file any charges against anyone on the Hancock County side of the matter- and there has been a great deal of thought that the grand jury was stacked with people who were connected to the Board of Education and that the whole process was rigged from the start...

Daniel is seeking damages, including medical costs and lost wages. No trial date has been set...

Here's the latest out of Sparta...

OSG High: Increased Security Seen For Warren-Hancock Rematch

((HT: WJBF-TV Augusta))

The HQ has followed what happened at last year's Hancock Central (Sparta, GA)- Warren County (GA) game and all of its aftermath...

Warren County's head coach, David Daniel, had to resign just before the beginning of the season because he is still battling the injuries he sustained when he was pearl-harbored by a helmet in a post-game brawl.

The Georgia High School Association put Hancock on two year's "severe warning status," issued a fine, and had them come up with a security plan for future events.

And the mess is far from being solved...

The follow-up piece that ran on Georgia Public Broadcasting at halftime of the "Football Fridays" broadcast can be found below...
((HT: GPB Sports))
While Matthew Morris was in Warrenton for the rematch for WJBF...
And we all know this is far from over...

OSG High: Hancock Central Taken To The Woodshed

At least, athletically...

The Georgia High School Association came down with their hammer in the fallout of the Warren County-Hancock Central brawl from the past football season.

The full release is hyah from the GHSA

All Hancock Central sports are now on “Severe Warning Status” for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. Any major sportsmanship violations will lead to more severe, yet unspecified, penalties.

Hancock Central must also have a written security plan for all football and basketball games sent to the GHSA by July 15. Hancock Central also is being fined an undisclosed amount for lack of institutional control, lack of school personnel on site, and failure to discipline.

Here's the quick version from our friends at WRDW-TV


The GHSA decision was appealed by Hancock Central’s administration but the GHSA Appeal Board denied the appeal.

There are other issues still on the table- the head coach of Warren County, David Daniel, has had to surrender his duties and the civil litigation is in question...

More when we know more...

OSG High: East Ga. High School makes statement over coaches beating

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And the battle continues.

We first told you back in October about an incident between Hancock County and Warren Co. (GA) High Schools that resulted in Warren County's coach getting seriously injured in a skirmish.

Now comes the latest salvo.

Warren County has decided to make a stand in Basketball when the team decided they'd rather forfeit their playoff game against Hancock County than play it.

And the school, the school district and others are totally in agreement, with Warren County's Superintendent saying she is concerned about safety.

The story from Augusta's WRDW RIGHT HERE

The TV story is here:



You'll recall the incident that started things back in October of 2011. After the two teams played in football, both teams retreated to the locker areas, which are close by. Warren County coach David Daniel's face was hit, and hit hard by a football helmet.

The injury shattered the bones in Daniel's face. Two surgeries later, he's O.K, but his face will never be the same.

And then on January 25th, the trigger for the protest.

A Hancock County grand jury refuses to bring charges against the football players accused of Daniel's beating.

The moral of this story is a lot of trash talking in rural places can lead to incidents like this. These two schools are the only Sports teams of note in their respective areas and consequently, they take things way too seriously at times.

We aren't saying anyone in particular is to blame over this, they aren't. But it is an incident that could have never happened had the self-control most should be exercising had exercised.

OSG High: GBI Completes Warren County Investigation

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After completing 135 interviews with anyone they could find that might have been related to the whole Hancock Central-Warren County High ((GA)) football game this past season, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) has handed over their findings for grand jury consideration...

Thank (insert divine being here)...

Here's the release from the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit in full...

For those of you who have forgotten the fallout of the brawl, here's the early recap thanks to our friends at WJBF...


The HQ knows Coach Daniel and has found the lack of cooperation from Hancock County authorities until they were forced to start investigating to be both unconscionable and lacking in understanding...

We just have never gotten it from their point of view...
Ever...

And if the Hancock Central folks are found culpable in any way, there oughta be hell to pay on a lot of different levels...

OSG High: New Allegations In Warren County Beating

((HT: WJBF-TV Augusta))

There are new, equally-disturbing allegations from an affidavit filed in the Warren County-Hancock County footbrawl from a while back...

And some of the on-camera responses are just flat stupid...

Jillian Benfield has the latest...


The HQ shows this to you to reinforce the idea that some folks should NEVER talk on camera ever again...

OSG High: Threatening Texts Sent To School By Old Coach Before Brawl...???

((HT: AJC.com/Mathis))

The bottom line is that if what George Mathis has found out is true, then what went down in the Warren County ((GA))- Hancock Central ((GA)) brawl that resulted in the caving in of Warren coach David Daniel's face is disgusting...

From Mathis via a letter acquired via open records addressed by school system attorney Mike Dishman to William A. Prior Jr., chief judge of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit in east Georgia:

Dishman states that Hancock assistant coach Marleau Blount sent several Warren players "vulgar and inappropriate" text messages. Blount resigned as head football coach at Warren County in August, said Warren County superintendent Jean Carey, and was replaced by Daniel.

Hancock County Superintendent Gwendolyn Jefferson Reeves said Blount admitted to her Wednesday that he sent text messages, but she would not disclose what the messages said.

"That is a matter under GBI investigation," said Reeves.

Warren County officials have long requested an investigation by Hancock County authorities in the Daniel assault, and it took the proverbial stomping up-and-down to have the Hancock folks comply. Hancock's Board of Education is looking forward to what they term a "fair" investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Blount's texts include the following alleged exchanges...

...a text message to a Warren County player that read "Better stay yo stupid [expletive] in [Warren County] B4 som1 get really hurt."

And after the fight, Dishman's letter claimed Blount told a Warren County player via an 11:22 p.m. text that he had no idea why the fight occurred: "How th[e] [expletive] I kno[w] about yall bull[expletive]. Yu started this [expletive] last week. Remember yu started this."

The HQ thinks this just warmed up...
More when we know more...