Posted on 04/24/2017 7:21:59 PM PDT by TigerClaws
DeSoto coach Todd Peterman led the Eagles to the school's first state football title in December. Four months later, his future at DeSoto is in doubt.
A source close to the DeSoto football program said that, although DeSoto ISD superintendent David Harris has recommended Peterman for rehire, four of the seven DeSoto ISD trustees are expected to vote against Peterman at the school board meeting Monday night.
It is unknown why some of the trustees want a replacement for Peterson, who in March was named the Dallas Gridiron Club's 6A Coach of the Year.
Ex-Baltimore Ravens linebacker Zach Orr, a former DeSoto star, said on Twitter that race was involved in the decision. DeSoto is a predominantly black community, and Peterman is white.
Orr also urged the public to attend the meeting in support of Peterman.
Public comments are scheduled before the meeting, where citizens will be given the opportunity to make their case either way. The final discussion will be behind closed doors, so the dissenting trustees could still be persuaded to keep Peterman.
Peterman has been the head coach at DeSoto for two years, going 6-6 in 2015 and then leading the Eagles to a 16-0 season last year that included the Class 6A Division II title. Before taking over as head coach in 2015, Peterman was an assistant for DeSoto and served as offensive coordinator at a program that advanced to the state semifinals in 2012 and 2013. DeSoto finished 14-1 each of those seasons, with its only loss to eventual state champion Allen.
The board meeting begins at 6:30. The agenda includes actions on administrator and teacher contracts, which will come after a closed session by the trustees.
I hope enough White folks realize that but I doubt it.America is sinking fast.
Isn’t this what happened in “Remember the Titans”?
We were mad last season when they built a warehouse between Dragon stadium and Grapevine’s stadium. We used to be able to read their scoreboard from the stands, but now we can just see the pressbox.
When you tell people outside Texas that there are two multi-million dollar high school football stadiums less than 1 mile from each other, they don’t get it. You have to be here.
The story notes that dozens of his players showed up
Won’t do him any good if most of them are honkeys.
Black kids, white kids, they all pretty much are for him.
The kids won a state championship under him. I imagine that means more to them than race.
It’s the grownups that want to play racial politics.
I have noticed a very strong pattern where underachievers (not just blacks, but almost always liberals) find a thriving concern (sports team, business, company project, college ... anything) and then move in to take it over and try to live off the reputation and good will that has been created by other people. Then they run it into the ground. It takes a while though, and in the meantime they bask in the glow of success that someone else’s hard work has created.
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