Posted on 09/26/2025 4:55:58 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A Florida high school football coach is accused of hitting three students in a heated brawl during practice, weeks after he allegedly fought another student at a different school.
Blanche Ely High School assistant football coach Jamir Clarke was arrested Monday after getting into a physical altercation with the students during practice, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office police report obtained by Local 10.
Clarke, 29, had allegedly confronted one of his student players for posting something negative online about someone he knew.
When the player admitted to making the post, the 6-foot-7, 400-pound coach allegedly called the student a “bitch” and then hit them.
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Perfect example of lack of impulse control from a certain ethnicity
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Nice chin.
I quit my junior high football team back in the 70s after my doctor strongly recommended I do so due to two ankle injuries.
After that the football coaches began to verbally harass me in gym class or wherever else I would encounter them, calling me a quitter and other taunts because i quit the team.
When my dad got wind of that he paid a personal visit to the principal and dean of boys....he never would tell me what went down at that meeting but the harassment stopped immediately.
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These kids dad’s need to have a “meeting” with this freakin’ bully......if they have fathers that is.
This pos needs to sit in a cell FOR A WHILE.
In certain schools like this, the hiring process should include checking an applicant’s rap sheet more than checking his resume
We had a high school coach when I was in high school who thought nothing of hitting players. Not beating them or fighting with them but he would hit you if you did something wrong and he got frustrated. He didn’t get fired. It was a different time, I guess.
“It was a different time, I guess.”
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Yep, back then it was common for coaches to grab a players face mask andcdrag ‘em around.....to me that’s the most humiliating thing you can do to a player.
I saw Lou Holtz do it during a game once and it ticked me off to no end.
It isn’t just gym classes.
I took Mandarin language classes.
as he walked through the class
during our group recitals.
If you screwed up the instructor,
would tap you on the head with
his chalk piece, It hurt!
No marks. Nobody saw nothing.
He was a Chinese army defector.
Chinese get educated differently.
Individualism is foreign to them,
group is everything.
Team sports seem to be the same.
One of my DC roommates was a JV football coach.
His day job was PE teacher. He was dumber than a box of rocks, but was the best ladies’ man I ever saw.
The high school I attended was practically brand new and to fill all the teaching positions all the other high schools had to transfer teachers to my school.
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The rumor was the other schools transferred their bottom of the barrel teachers......from what I saw attending that school from 7-12 it made perfect sense.
This is what happens when you hire thugs.
It was a different time. I had a different experience, though. I turned into a rabid NFL fan when I watched a game for the first time at the age of 14 after being overseas for five years.
So, when my dad retired and we moved back to his hometown, I very badly wanted to play football, even though I had no experience.
So, as a senior, I tried out for the football team, and while I was slow and clumsy, I had plenty of desire to hit and tackle.
I remember going to a movie with a bunch of my new friends and bringing my playbook with me, trying to learn it in the theater instead of watching the movie (it didn’t help me)
The coach was a fixture who had been there for decades, and he tried me at running back and one of my first plays injured my back and has been nearly ruinous to me for the rest of my life.
I was fullback, and was supposed to go outside on the sweep and block a linebacker. As I pulled and ran out, one of the biggest kids on defense was running at full speed directly towards the runner who was behind me.
I was running at full speed too, and being full of piss and vinegar, reasoned in my 17 year old brain that it was a matter of leverage. Surely I could stop him dead in his tracks if I positioned myself correctly.
He probably weighed a good 30-40 lbs more than I did (I was 155-160) and when we met, I fully planted and blocked and he hit me full speed. My spine probably compressed three inches in that instant, and I could barely walk. I was having back spasms which are damned painful, and we had to run laps at the end of practice.
Well, I couldn’t run. I could barely even hobble. And all the rest of the team was gone, and I had two laps to go, all by myself. I could have walked faster, I think. Finally, the coach came out and said laconically but not unkindly for him: “You can go to the shower now.” He wasn’t known as a particularly kind or considerate man that I ever knew, but I think he could not miss the fact I wasn’t going to give up.
The rest of my life was pain, but I never told the Navy recruiters about it, and boot camp was a bitch doing leg lifts, but I made it. A couple of years ago, I got back pain so intense I was sweating and gritting my teeth as I walked around at work, and finally, I had to see a doctor. An MRI scan showed that a disk in my lumbar spine had been protruding, and then had gotten completely pinched off and a part of the disk was floating free. He said they wouldn’t do surgery for it, and would let the body dissolve it.
As a former HS football player, I was OK with it. Some of the guys needed and benefited from it.
That, and a pretty forceful whack on the shoulder pads would get your attention - the 2X4 and the mule so to speak.
They never hit the ear holes though. They knew better. Harm wasn’t meant - it was stern and forceful correction and a dressing down.
Coaches have always had anger issues no matter the race. The school principal, an ex coach, actually called hubby out to the parking lot over a little nothing with our kiddo being placed in detention because some boys stole her purse from her desk. Yeah, stupid upside down punishing the victim. Hubby was cool, calm and collected which sent the principal over the top. He was all red in the face and veins sticking out. The asst. principal was under his desk. I was holding in my laughter so much I nearly peed.
I was just a student manager of the football team and quit during my senior year as the coach was a jerk and a bully. He got even with me later at an assembly, but I could live with it. I missed nothing.
Pfff. In my highschool, whoch wasnt efen an inner city highschool by any means (rural scbool actually), teachers would routinely grab students by the neck and slam them agaisnt the wall, run and tackle them if they were fighting, yank them out of their desks for back sassin and slam them agaisnt the wall, then send them to principle’s office where the student got further reprimanded.
Seemed like it hzppend at least a few times a month- kids were pretty sassy back then, and challenging authorities in the 70’s and 80’s. Teachers didnt take any crap from anyone. And none of th3m got sued either.
Spell check actually works pretty well.
“7, 400-pound coach” ????????
“ but he would hit you if you did something wrong and he got frustrated. He didn’t get fired.”
We had a coach like that back in the early 80’s. He made the mistake of hitting a player on the side of his helmet at a home game. The crowd booed loudly.
Monday morning he was terminated. Bullying is a poor methodology for teaching.
He sucked as a coach anyway, never had a winning season and always got beat!!
“Bullying is a poor methodology for teaching.”
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Amen to that.....I never needed to be mollycoddled but I didn’t need to be yelled at and otherwise intimidated either.
Just telling me what was expected was really all I needed to hear.
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I had a math teacher in elementary school that had the nasty habit of embarrassing a kid in front of the class that answered incorrectly.
I really believe that hindered my desire to learn math from then on. Doing that to 11 year olds can really scar a kid....did me anyway.
::...coach allegedly called the student a “bitch” and then hit them.::
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There is that stupid pronoun abuse again. The sentence is describing the coach’s striking a single student, so it should say “hit him” and not “hit them.”
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