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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Jay High School assistant football coach Mack Breed, who reportedly told his players to hit referee Robert Watts on Sept. 4, resigned on Thursday,&amp;nbsp;reports&amp;nbsp;ESPN\u2019s John Barr.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, ESPN reported that Breed had taken responsibility for the incident and admitted he told his players to target Watts because of his unjustified calls\u200B and alleged use of racial slurs. But on Thursday, &lt;em&gt;USA Today &lt;/em&gt;reported that Breed denied giving those instructions, and claimed that he accepted the blame and resigned in order to protect the boys from being expelled.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Michael Moreno and Victor Rojas, the players who knocked Watts to the ground in the waning minutes of John Jay's 15\u20139 loss to Marble Falls, took to ABC's &lt;em&gt;Good Morning America &lt;/em&gt;last Friday to blame their actions on Breed.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, Moreno and Rojas were cleared to return to John Jay for the spring semester after completing 75 days at&amp;nbsp;an alternative school. They still remain suspended indefinitely from the team.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Breed had previously been suspended from the team throughout the ongoing investigation into the matter.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022 John Jay football players say coach told them to hit the referee&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Kayla Lombardo&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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