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For No Discernible Reason, Arizona High School Coach Leaked Team Strategies To Opponents


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https://deadspin.com/for-no-discernible-reason-arizona-high-school-coach-le-1838202849

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A high school football and basketball coach in Arizona resigned Friday after a Tempe Union High School District investigation found that he had shared game strategies, play calls and information about player eligibility with several opposing coaches for at least two years, according to the Ahwatukee Foothills News.

Justin Hager had coached Mountain Pointe High School’s girls basketball team and served as an assistant for the school’s football team since 2016. In that time, he reportedly sent hundreds of emails containing privileged information on the football and boys basketball team to other coaches, all from the terrific email address walterpayton12@yahoo.com.

Per the emails released by the school, Hager sent PDFs of plays and defensive schemes to at least eight opposing coaches until—perhaps because this seemed remarkably like an episode of the hidden camera show What Would You Do?—the head football coach at Faith Lutheran in Las Vegas finally said something.

“Sir…I don’t believe in cheating,” he responded to walterpayton12 on Aug. 21. “We are not looking to gain an unfair advantage. We will prepare as best we can and look to have a great competitive game.”

When the teams met two days later, Faith Lutheran coach Vernon Fox told Mountain Pointe head football coach Rich Wellbrock about the email, which was traced back to Hager.

In a letter to the Arizona Interscholastic Association, the school’s athletic director said the investigation had not found a motive for Hager’s actions.

Per the Foothills News, the investigation also did not determine whether the information leaked by Hager had been used against Mountain Pointe; the timeline of emails and games shows Mountain Pointe both winning and losing games after their strategies were released.

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Why did Mr. Hager do this?  Because it's just a game, played by children.

 

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19 hours ago, BDGiant93 said:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/highschool/2019/09/17/how-arizona-high-school-coach-caught-leaking-game-plans-football/2354978001/

The amazing thing is that it took until 2018, as I read this, for someone to reach out and tell the school that was being hurt by the leaks.

People in Las Vegas have better ethics than our neighbors.

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Man, You High School Football Coaches Just Can't Stop Doing Espionage, Can You?: https://deadspin.com/man-you-high-school-football-coaches-just-cant-stop-do-1838467220

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About a week after a high school coach in Arizona got caught doing the very same thing, a former Arkansas high school football coach has reportedly resigned after he was found to be leaking information about his own school’s football team to an opponent’s coach. Someone call the CDC, it’s an epidemic!

According to the Madison County Record, Randy Barnhill served as both dean of students and head football coach at Huntsville High School until January, when he was relieved of his coaching duties and made full-time dean. Under his coaching, the Huntsville Eagles had posted consecutive 2-8 seasons.

In texts obtained by the Record, a sender believed to be Barnhill—at one point his texts mention officiating a game the Record confirmed Barnhill did officiate—shared Huntsville’s strategies, plays and roster strengths with a football coach at nearby Elkins High School. The texts were sent over a period of several days in the week leading up to the teams’ meeting last Friday (Huntsville lost, by the way, 35-0). And the messages go into pretty meticulous detail: “Watch who’s signaling plays in. Thumb up is to the right. Thumb down is to the left.”

Jeez, what is with you people? I thought college football coaches were bad, but you’re a bunch of crazed, petty weirdos! Someone go the distance and wrangle these together in a Wikileaks-esque clearinghouse of lame pass routes, why don’t you?

After the Huntsville-Elkins game, Elkins coach Bryan Hutson texted the number to say, “We won. The coaches said something about you talking to me. Said they had something. I didn’t know what they were talking about. They were pissed.” Per a KFSM-TV report, the messages were found backed up on an iPad owned by the Huntsville football program. On Tuesday morning, the Record reports, Barnhill was seen leaving campus escorted by school security and a Madison County sheriff’s deputy. The Huntsville School District superintendent later confirmed that Barnhill had resigned.

So far, the Record says, the district is handling the matter internally. That’s because unlike its Arizona counterpart, the Arkansas Activities Association doesn’t have a rule prohibiting this kind of thing, for the admittedly sensible reason of “Who would ever do that?”

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