This actually happened when I was an assistant coach at a college in Tennessee...In fact, the opposing team could not send us a copy of the game film because they said it didn’t turn out...
Our head coach said nothing publicly about this, but we were going to send the film to the NCAA if we had gotten one...
Good for him, but he should have mentioned it. It would show he was taking up for his players. Fans are fickle and can form the opinion a coach is rolling over and letting something happen.