Coach’s Constitutional Claim Survives AD’s Summary Judgment Mo

A federal judge has ruled that a former basketball coach has shown sufficient evidence that an administrator’s damning remarks prevented him from securing another job, thus quelling the administrator’s motion to dismiss.   The plaintiff, Lamont Bryant, had been the head basketball coach at John Marshall High School. The school, noted the court, had a rich tradition in high school basketball. But its boys program had fallen on hard times in recent years, while the girls’ program had co