Monthly Archives: December 2010

Drunk Soccer Coach Accused of Accosting Girl, 15, at Hotel During Tournament

High School Coach Sex Scandal LogoThe 15-year-old victim claims that girls soccer coach Paul Hensel, 42, was drunk at a Petoskey, Michigan hotel during a soccer tournament in September and that he made passes at her and her two friends while they tried to study in the dining area. They even have tape of it.

On the other hand Hensel’s lawyer says that while the tape shows his client was drunk and showed poor judgement, that doesn’t make him a sexual predator.

Hopefully, the truth will come out at the trial.

Paul Hensel, 42, was arraigned in 90th District Court in Petoskey after an investigation begun by Oak Park-based State Police found Hensel allegedly touched the girl’s buttocks while he was intoxicated at a hotel during the Sept. 11-12 tournament, a state police investigator said.  But Hensel’s defense attorney Michael Manley of Flint, said the girl was with two friends in the motel dining area around 9 p.m. when the trio began videotaping Hensel and “mocking him,” and he said the tape shows that Hensel never touched the girl.

“He was intoxicated but I think the videotape clearly shows that he’s not a sex offender,” Manley said. Hensel, a father of five, was staying at the motel with his wife while his own children played in the tournament, police said.

The alleged victim and her friends were doing homework in the motel dining room when Hensel is approached and began “making passes at them,” Robertson said. The victim’s father learned of the incident the next morning, as he and his daughter drove home to Birmingham, “so they reported it to us” at the Oak Park post upon arrival in metro Detroit, Sgt.David Robertson said.

Read more: Man charged with accosting girl at soccer tourney | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20101206/NEWS06/101206058/Man-charged-with-accosting-girl-at-soccer-tourney#ixzz19P7qN3tY

HS Footbal Coach “Helps” Players Take Proficiency Test, Most End Up Failing

Dumbass Category LogoIt seemed like such a great idea at the time! Braylon Linnear was not only an assistant football coach at Pinkston High School in Texas, but he was also scheduled to be the test administrator for the annual exam that measures if students are actually learning anything in school. According to the school district, Linnear wanted to make sure that his players did well on the exam so he allegedly slipped them a note at the beginning to tell them NOT to complete any answers on the test as things would be “taken care of.”  And taken care of they were: one football player who was also in the Honor Society got a zero on his test . . . which is nearly impossible. Others had the blanks filled in, but got every answer wrong.

Thanks coach!

Linnear is still with the district, but all the exams taken that day were thrown out and the kids had to retake them. And, in the future, coaches will not be allowed to proctor these types of tests.

Here’s more from the Dallas Morning News:

The test administrator, assistant football coach Braylon Linnear, wanted some of the students to pretend to answer questions for the exam they needed to pass to graduate, according to DISD documents recently obtained by The Dallas Morning News.  In a note he slipped to a student after the exam began, Linnear instructed a football player to turn in an empty answer sheet because it “would get taken care of,” the report described.

But questions arose when officials discovered an odd test result.  Linnear, who didn’t return calls for comment, told Dallas ISD investigators he didn’t tamper with the exams. But the district’s months-long investigation concluded he “directly or indirectly” assisted students, a violation of both DISD and state testing procedures.

Linnear is still employed at Pinkston. Dallas ISD spokesman Jon Dahlander would not discuss Linnear’s duties or whether he had been disciplined.  After the internal investigation, Dallas ISD officials said they have banned Pinkston coaches from proctoring exams, added more classroom monitors during testing and have introduced other procedures to prevent cheating.

“There’s no doubt in my mind that we won’t have any issues,” said Leslie Williams, executive director of the district’s Central Learning Community, which oversees West Dallas’ Pinkston High School.