An upstate New York high school girls basketball coach was fired after a caught-on television postgame incident where he was busted yanking a player’s hair after the team’s loss Friday night.
In a now-viral video, longtime Northville High School coach Jim Zullo, 81, approaches the team’s star player Hailey Monroe, who appears to be crying after the game, reaches out and violently pulls her ponytail, before yelling at her.
Monroe then appears to try to get away from the coach, as he continues berating her as another player tries to get him to stop.
The Northville Central School District has announced the firing of high school girls basketball coach Jim Zullo.
In the below video from the NFHS Network’s stream of Northville’s loss in the Class D state title game, Zullo is seen pulling the hair of senior Hailey Monroe. MORE
And it’s gone!!!
Picture only.
C’mon man! That’s not howe we does it in Scrantom! Wudda do is have your Seacrest Service guys push em down then ya SNIFFEM!
81yo, damn, does he think he’s in congress?
THERE’S NO CRYING IN, UM, BASKETBALL!!!
Time to put that dickhead out to pasture. What an asshole.
Might have been OK when he first started coaching but……..
The times they are a changing.
What would have been great is if her father would have stormed the court and cold-cocked that son-of-a-bitch. That was close enough to striking a girl, which is NEVER acceptable, especially in this situation. I played football in high school in the 70’s and it was common practice for the coach to smack a player on his helmet or shoulder pads, but that was never acceptable then or now for girls.
I MUST SAY GOD BLESS THE YOUNG LADY WHO INTERVENED
YOU CAN ALMOST READ HER WORDS, WHILE POKING HER FINGER IN HIS FACE WHILE SHELTERING HER TEAMMATE
THESE GIRLS HAVE BEEN THRU ENOUGH BULLSHIT!!
Really!? Why is this elderly man a coach for a girl’s sport team. Guessing he was safer than hiring a younger guy who could really do some damage – for ex. sexual abuse, but a short-tempered, senile elderly men isn’t much better. A woman coach, hopefully straight should have been hired in the first place.
Here’s the video:
https://www.facebook.com/alyssa.leroux.9/videos/529994763465647/?ref=embed_video&t=4
At 81 years old, if he really wanted to be coaching he should be coaching young men. He wouldn’t be pulling their pony tails. He needs to sit on his porch for a while.
Heh heh … I like to touch the little girls …………
Jeez, stop crying and toughen up already.