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Taking a stand: Union High coach suspends entire football team in lesson about character

By Amy Donaldson, Deseret News
Published: Tuesday, Sept. 24 2013 4:30 p.m. MDT

ROOSEVELT — Matt Labrum believes football helps create great men.

And it is that belief and his passion for the game that led the Union High School head football coach and his staff to suspend all 41 players from the team because of off-field problems ranging from cyberbullying to skipping classes.

“We felt like everything was going in a direction that we didn’t want our young men going,” said Labrum, an alumnus of the program he’s coached for the past two years. “We felt like we needed to make a stand.”

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[El Scorcho]

Bravo to this coach and his staff. If only schools at every level could have their priorities in such order.

[Purple Haize]

Bravo to this coach and his staff. If only schools at every level could have their priorities in such order.

Agreed. Also don't be surprised if he is not coaching there 2 years from now

[Sly Fox]

It is rare to see coaches risk their own careers to take a stand these days. Much respect.