{"id":1804649,"date":"2023-01-13T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804649"},"modified":"2023-01-13T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:09:44","slug":"texas-high-school-football-coach-put-on-leave-after-allegedly-forcing-players-to-perform-hundreds-of-push-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-high-school-football-coach-put-on-leave-after-allegedly-forcing-players-to-perform-hundreds-of-push-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas High School Football Coach Put On Leave After Allegedly Forcing Players To Perform \u201cHundreds\u201d of Push-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-high-school-football-coach-put-on-leave-after-allegedly-forcing-players-to-perform-hundreds-of-push-ups%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"subheading\">Numerous high school footballers required medical attention. \u201csome\u201d They had to be taken to the hospital by their head coach, who reportedly ordered them to do so. \u201chundreds\u201d You can use push-ups to punish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">John Harrell, Rockwall Heath High School&#8217;s head coach, has been put on administrative leave. \u201can independent third party investigation\u201d Into the allegations against him is done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The school sent a letter to parents informing them that the incident happened on Friday during an offseason workout.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Dan-Thornberg_Getty-Images-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"Football\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Getty Images\/Dan Thornberg<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0district is also taking interim action, including but not limited to, placing Coach Harrell on administrative leave while the investigation is pending and notifying appropriate outside agencies,\u201d The letter was read according to\u00a0<em>Dallas Morning News<\/em>. \u201cDistrict administrators and campus personnel have been in contact with the affected families and student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It claimed that several players needed medical attention. \u201csome\u201d They were admitted to hospital. The coach did not specify how many push-ups were required in the letter. Fox 4 Ft. Worth parent tells Fox 4 Ft. Worth their child told them 300 pushups an hour without water and no rest.<\/p>\n<p>Fox 4 was told by the parent. \u201cAs a parent we send our kids to school trusting that they will be cared for at the highest level. That has been the case until this unfortunate event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">According to some reports, the parent requested anonymity and stated that their child was suffering from rhabdomyolysis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Brady Luff, a junior captain of the team, disputes the claim that players weren&#8217;t given water or breaks.<\/p>\n<p>Luff claimed that water was available and players were allowed to leave. The coach was also defendable by the junior captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s treated us with nothing but respect and he loves every single one of us like his own,\u201d Luff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach Harrell was named head football coach at Rockwall Heath a year ago,\u201d Fox 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/rockwall-health-hs-football-coach-on-leave-after-pushup-punishment\">Reports<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s been a coach in the school\u2019s football program since 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous high school footballers required medical attention. \u201csome\u201d They had to be taken to the hospital by their head coach, who reportedly ordered them to do so. \u201chundreds\u201d You can use push-ups to punish. John Harrell, Rockwall Heath High School&#8217;s head coach, has been put on administrative leave. \u201can independent third party investigation\u201d Into the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4845,5458,4024,5541,14729,3627,4591,7418,9502,14730,3819,3924,3694],"class_list":["post-1804649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-allegedly","tag-bongino","tag-coach","tag-football","tag-forcing","tag-hundreds","tag-leave","tag-perform","tag-players","tag-push-ups","tag-report","tag-school","tag-texas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}