And yet MORE on the Georgia football riot...

Atlanta Journal Constitution:

It has now been reported by the Warren County school attorney that Hancock County assistant football coach Marleau Blount sent several "vulgar and threatening messages" to players on the Warren County football team.

Here's the kicker: Until August of this year, when he resigned, Blount was the head football coach at Warren County!!!

This is taking an institutional attack to unheard-of and obscene levels, if any of this is true. This almost assures that the attack went all the way through the football team (and the order may have come from Blount, if not the entire coaching staff at Hancock County!)

This is the text of one of the messages purported to have been sent by Blount:

"Better stay yo stupid [expletive] in [Warren County] B4 som1 get really hurt."

You better fucking pray that this is not true, on so many levels...

This is purportedly a special-ed teacher who volunteers (for no pay) as an assistant football coach.

If this is Blount with that kind of message, this takes my concerns to an entirely new level.

This (cleaned up for some degree of grammar) was a text that the attorney states Blount sent after the fight:

"How th[e] [expletive] I kno[w] about yall bull[expletive]. Yu started this [expletive] last week. Remember yu started this."

(referring to the incident at the third school mentioned earlier, where Warren County players openly went on the field and celebrated with the third school when that school defeated Hancock County)

Also in the AJC:

A community forum will be held to try to prevent this from happening again in Hancock County.

Here's about the only thing I think can prevent this from going nuclear:

1. No more sporting teams, of any kind, at Hancock County Schools until the students and the staff can establish they have an ounce of maturity between them.
2. A community-wide investigation into what's been going on in the two counties, before somebody starts a true war down there.

That's it. Nothing short of this will suffice. Death Penalty the sports programs at Hancock and get to the bottom of this entire situation before someone does what I probably would've done if I were a Warren County parent of a player:

I'd probably have grabbed a gun...