This junior high school basketball coach told his players to be on time or they'd have to run line drills. The school fired him hours before a playoff game.
Posted: Feb 24, 2023 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
"They told me that it was in the best interest of the kids that I was no longer going to be needed as their head coach and to turn in my keys," said MacInnis. The drills are common, and see players line up on the baseline of the gym and run up and down the gym floor.None of the players complained and the rest of the practice went off without a hitch, he said. Players left the court pumped up for their first playoff game, set for the next day.
"I am very proud of those boys who said that if I wasn't going to be their coach, they would no longer be playing," said MacInnis, who won a high school provincial basketball title as a player at Horton District High School in 2007 and played two years of college basketball at Crandall University in Moncton.
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