[Boogieman]

“I do understand and we don’t condone being disrespectful to the coaches,” Joey Sheppard, Coy’s father, told WLBT.com. “But he was standing up for what he thought was right. ...

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Then he should get to learn the lesson that, when you break the rules in order to make a principled stand on something you believe in, you should expect to have to face the consequences of the rules you broke. That makes the difference between an activist and a nincompoop.

[mmichaels1970]

Now the senior, who relied on academic credit from playing football to help fulfill graduation requirements, might not receive his diploma on time

WHOZAWAZA HUH? You can DO that now? And he relied on that credit to graduate? Sorry, that sentence really sidetracked me off of the main point.

[earlJam]

Sounds like the coach is a jerk.

[Vendome]

[dayglored]

"He was standing up for what he thought was right."

Very good. However,...

[DesertSapper]

To hades with the rules! If you want to wear pink cleats, or pink hair, a pink football tutu, or you repaint the goal line pink . . . as long as it makes you feeeeel good.

Arrrrgh ... trying to understand liberal thinking makes my brain hurt.

[devane617]

I worked for IBM many years ago and had to wear a white shirt, and dark, matching slacks and coat. That was the rules. I could not make up my own as I went along.

[SlidingW]

He’s been reinstated. You can read “the rest of the story” at the Sun Herald (Biloxi/Gulfport).