Convicted coach sentenced

[jemoore]

For those of you who have followed the story of the coach who assaulted a referee in Palos Heights, Illinois last year here's the most recent update. There are three stories. 1) Chicago Tribune (You may have to type the web address in your web browser for this Tribune story...the link appears to omit the last part) 2) Daily Southtown 3)Chicago SunTimes

1).
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/p...307310234jul31,1,5404927.story?coll=chi-printmetro-hed

2).
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southt...dex/31-ds4.htm

3).
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ref31.html


It's important to note that the league still refuses to ban him even though a judge did. In fact the league president is quoted in one of the articles as saying "He's welcome to come back and coach". Also, Mr. Trench claims to have been hired by a high school as a football coach since his conviction and sentencing for battery. He wouldn't name the supposed high school. (It's not established that this claim of coaching employment is true or a lie)

Make sure you read the Chicago Tribune article. Among other things he said, he's quoted as saying if he could go back he'd "beat the referee into the ground" and "from one end of the field to the other".

Again, thanks for you interest and support.

[Edited by jemoore on Jul 31st, 2003 at 01:50 PM]

[blevak]

This is a copy of the email I sent to Jim Hook, Staff writer
of the Daily Southtown - http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southt...dex/31-ds4.htm
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“His life, or at least the next year of it, was over”

You have got to be kidding.

I commend Trench for having helped start the league.

But when he goes on the field, he is in violation of the rules.
When he touches an official, he is in violation of the rules.
When he “belly-bumps” an official, he is in violation of the law.

If he followed the rules, he wouldn’t be in this situation, would he? Odd that a man who has dedicated 28 years of his life to the league wouldn’t know the rules, isn’t it? Or don’t the rules apply equally to him?

One might say, “It was only a belly-bump!” What it was, was an attempt by an adult authority figure to intimidate a teenager in a game for young teenagers.
"I never touched him," he said. "But I should have beat him from one goal post to the next." What a wonderful role model he is.
Any attempt to win sympathy for a man that is a dysfunctional role model with a blatent disregard for not only the rules of the game that he professes to cherish, but also for the laws of society should be held in the same contempt as the actions of Coach Trent that day.
Regards,
Bruce Levak