In a signed statement detailing his interactions with the head coach after the game, John Jay High School principal Robert Harris says the team’s secondary coach, Mack Breed, admitted he “directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls.”

via ESPN:

On Wednesday, 15-year-old John Jay sophomore Victor Rojas and 17-year-old senior Michael Moreno each will attend disciplinary hearings.

On Sept. 4, Rojas and Moreno blindsided official Robert Watts late in the fourth quarter of a game in Marble Falls, Texas, on a deliberate tackle from behind that was captured on video.

According to a sideline source and the accounts provided to Outside the Lines of four John Jay players, Watts used the N-word twice during the game, once before and once after the infamous hits, and also used language offensive to Hispanics.

Watts has declined to comment, but his attorney, Alan Goldberger, said Watts denies he used racist remarks of any kind.

Rojas and Moreno already have been assigned to an alternative school and are prohibited from even watching John Jay games as spectators. In an interview with Outside the Lines last week, they said it was Breed, whom they both said they consider a “second father,” who ordered them to hit Watts. Rojas and Moreno said Breed had grown increasingly angry about penalties, ejections and the alleged racial slurs by Watts.

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