A high school football coach has been placed on leave after parents say their kids were forced to do 400 pushups as a disciplinary measure. John Harrell (pictured above) of Rockwall, Texas has come under fire by parents and students alike for allegedly forcing Rockwall-Heath High School football players to do “a large number of pushups” according to FoxNews4.
The coach has been head of the football team since 2019 and previously expressed in a school video how it was his “dream” to be a head football coach one day.
You can see him accepting his title as head coach in the video (below): The punishment allegedly occurred on Friday evening during an off-season workout.
Reports say football players were forced to do “hundreds” of pushups in the span of only one hour and were offered no water and given no break.
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