After Friday night's Homecoming Game loss to the Smith County Owls, post game discussions with parents and fans followed a persistent pattern, according to varied witness accounts.
"I think it's been blown way out of proportion," said Coach Cook this Monday morning. "The people I talked to weren't rude, and it was one of the more positive discussions we've had following a game," said Cook.
Rumors to the contrary were flying over the weekend. The coach had resigned; the coach had been arrested; the coach cussed out or was cussed out by angry parents.
"None of that is true, and I intend to continue serving as MCHS Coach," said Daniel Cook. It is easy for something like this to get blown out of proportion, he repeated.
"It was actually one of the best MCHS Homecoming weeks I can remember, interjected MCHS Principal Wayne Deering, who sat in on the 11 a.m. Monday interview with Coach Cook, WEEN-am and WLCT-fm commentator Randy Swaffer, and this reporter.
However, the coach admitted that the following night, another confrontation occurred with the football program's critics, following the Freshman away game at Gordonsville.
"I told them we were canceling the last two games of the Freshman season, for the sake the the program. It needs a lot of improvement, and we just want to put it on the right path for next year," asserted Coach Daniel Cook.
Losing ball games is no fun for the players, coaches, parents and fans of the Lafayette Tigers. But as with any high school or college sports program, there's always "next year."
Notre Dame fans are no doubt thinking the same thing.
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