“He Should Be Fired”: High School Football Coach Draws Massive Flak After “Coach Carter” Punishment Goes Wrong, Landing Many Students in Hospital

There have been coaches throughout the history of humankind who have adopted peculiar ways of strengthening their players. A high school football coach of Rockwall-Heath has come under fire for his inhumane ways of disciplining the students. The story has gained a lot of traction from the fans of football on Twitter.

Disciplinary workouts take a dark turn

After a particularly intense practice, some student-athletes were sent to the hospital, which led to the removal of Texas coach John Harrell from his post. The school placed him on paid leave on Tuesday, a week after they took the players to the hospital.

Several pupils reportedly had to be rushed to the hospital after being told to complete 400 pushups without any pauses for water.

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The incident happened during an eighth-period athletic class. A mother reported that her son, who goes to the elite public school out of Dallas, was forced to complete 300-400 push-ups with no breaks. As a result of rhabdomyolysis, which can cause kidney damage or failure, her son was admitted to the hospital.

The school wrote to the football parents that an independent third party will investigate the incident.

Fans compared the high school football coach to Coach Carter

The thought of making pupils perform 400 pushups as punishment outraged many fans. But many people thought that in order to strengthen students, it is important for them to engage in physically strenuous exercises.

Some fans on Twitter even compared the coach to the fictional Coach Carter, a character from a movie of the same name.

Samuel L. Jackson played the character of a strict coach who, in order to get desired results from his students, makes them do extremely hard drills.

The district will examine and try to find any connection between the workouts and the illnesses students suffered.

A student named Brady Luff said that the number 16 is their motto and if any player cannot complete a workout, they do sixteen push-us only. “I’ve heard people say that we didn’t have water, and that is not true,” Luff said. “We have these big jugs full of water. You can go there in between reps and get water whenever you want. No one was deprived of water.” Harrell has been the head of the school’s team for a year now and has been part of the school’s program since 2019.

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