Superintendent Backs Coach’s Right to Discipline Players

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With complaints coming in from parents of student-athletes from Douglas, Ala., after head football coach Jamison Wadley instructed players to do bear crawls on asphalt leading to some injury, Marshall County Schools superintendent Cindy Wigley is standing behind her coach’s right to prescribe physical discipline.

While some parents in the area agreed that such methods are a prudent way to instill players with the determination they need to succeed, others — such as football parent Stephen Stone — were disturbed by circulating images of the players’ hands following the drill. 

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