Yes, his parents must be so proud of him.
They done raised him up right.
Personally I believe his bail was set about $ 800,000 too low.
Permanently being barred from participation in sports statewide is the first step. Should have already happened.
He should stand trial. And based on clear HD video evidence, be convicted.
Expulsion from the school is a must. A Referee is an authority figure.
Every single teacher in his school should assume they are in equal danger to that Referee.
The referee has a concussion. Oh, and you wanna beat up defenseless adults like you’re a big man? Good- your name SHOULD be shared in public.
People complain about bad officiating, but the truth is, this stuff goes on so often that people with better ways of making money aren’t interested in getting into officiating and never enter the pipeline that the NCAA and professional leagues ultimately select from. Refereeing jobs self-select for low competency as long as the kind of abuse that is considered normal in youth and high school leagues goes on. The above is attracting punishment only because it happened during the game and was a player caught doing it on camera. A parent doing it in the parking lot is just the expected hassle of having the job.
Agreed- one reads stories about refs being confronted after games. By parents. Then again, perhaps I should be applauding the child instead of castigating him for not simply murdering the referee. ( See link to Kenya )
Well, it’s Texas. They need time to find the coach’s home, publicize his home address, telephone numbers, email address and names of spouse and all children. So that their safety and lives can be threatened.
So he can “reconsider the charges filed” and drop the whole thing immediately.
Duron was charged with Class A assault on Friday morning following an arraignment at the Edinburg Municipal Court. A cash surety bound in the amount of $10,000 has been set for Duron.
My wife and I have been discussing this, since our son played HS football. While we agree on him being prevented from participating in any more sports, we disagree on the whole team getting punished (by getting kicked-out of the playoffs). I am of the opinion collective punishment is a bad idea, and his team mates end up paying a price for his behavior. However, the coaches probably bear some responsibility here, assuming this kid has played for a few years to get to this level, he should have been coached better.
Also, I wonder if the officials are paid or are volunteers. For our games I believe they were paid a set amount per game, but it was a pittance (I do not recall the amount, just remembering that it was very low). So, these people officiate the games mainly because the like it, and should not expect to be harassed, much less trucked on the field.
Originally I had the same thought …“shithead is in jail, why punish the rest of the team by kicking them out of the playoffs”. Then I saw this in one of the linked stories:
Duron, who is also the team’s kicker and punter and a star wrestler, was also suspended for the remainder of the 2019-20 soccer season after a similar incident occurred on the pitch during a match last year against crosstown rival Edinburg Vela
He’s pulled this shit before? And the coach still played him? Yeah, fuck 'em all. Not fair to his teammates, but absolutely necessary to slap the coach down. Even in Texas, winning shouldn’t be all there is.
Texas high school football referees are paid a base fee of $105 per game with additional incentives for long-distance travel or working games with high attendance:
Football games last around 3 hours, plus figure a minimum of 1 hour total time in transit and preparation. There are other things that highly capable people can do for $26/hr that don’t involve being verbally and physically abused for the entire time you are at work. If the alternative is making $9/hr at Wendy’s maybe it’s worth it, but this is why smarter people with more options don’t bother with refereeing.
Firing the coach – or the whole staff – still sounds like a more appropriate penalty than punishing the whole team. Though I do get that you have to send a message that the school’s culture needs to change, these are high school kids and most of them will never play organized football again.
You make it sound like the job is performed by drunk Santas in the off season or something.
It’s not a full-time gig. From what I recall from my playing days* and from stuff my brother has said (he’s a high school soccer coach and one-time football coach), most referees are coaches from other levels of the sport. Like say… a middle school football coach being the referee for a high school game, for example.
I’d think the athletic director should get some level of sanction along with the head coach; the AD because he didn’t lay down the law and say that Duron wasn’t allowed to play anymore in any sport after the soccer incident, and the head coach, because he was willing to overlook that behavior and have Duron on his team.
I recall more than once seeing referees from our games later on in the spring as coaches for track and field at other schools, and thinking “Hey- wasn’t that guy the referee in our game last fall?”
The strange thing I found about this story is, apparently the student had been involved in a similar incident in a different sport (soccer, I think) last year.
I don’t know how Texas does it, but in California, if a player or coach attacks an official, it is an automatic minimum one year ban in all sports; after the year, if the offender wishes to return to sports, they have to go through a hearing process first.