Football: Wilcox to take at least a year offThis fall, Steve Wilcox won't be coaching with the Douglas football team.It'll be the first time in 35 years that the longtime coach won't be on the sidelines of at least one sport for the Tigers. "I'm going to take a year off for sure," Wilcox said."Coaching has been a huge part of my life," Wilcox said.Wilcox took the job as the head baseball coach at Douglas in 1974, a job he kept for 10 years.He began coaching the linemen for the football the next year.He and Cliff Simpson also coached Douglas to two softball state titles in 1991 and '92 and Wilcox served as the school's athletic director for 14 years.He was named the state's athletic director of the year during his final stint in the position in 2006.Despite not coaching with the football team this fall, Wilcox said he'll still keep tabs on the Tigers."They should be pretty good," he said.

"Mike didn't do anything wrong," Douglas Athletic Director Steve Wilcox said.Wilcox said the issue basically came down to liability."If you were an administrator at this school and you had a wrestling practice and there was nobody there for practice, who is liable?"Wilcox said."The assistant coaches weren't under stipend.If they are not employees, it doesn't mean squat. "Somebody has to be responsible liability-wise, especially in wrestling."Wilcox said the decision wasn't based solely on Monday's practice."It's something we've been looking at for quite a while," he said.

-- Douglas High School's Steve Wilcox says farewell to education after 31 years.Wilcox was the high school's athletic director for 14 years.Page C1 -- She's only 9, but she's swinging a racket right there with the 14-year-olds.

"Mike didn't do anything wrong," Douglas Athletic Director Steve Wilcox said.Wilcox said the issue very basically came down to liability."If you were an administrator at this school and you had a wrestling practice and there was nobody there for practice, who is liable?"Wilcox said."The assistant coaches weren't under stipend.If they are not employees, it doesn't mean squat. "Somebody has to be responsible liability-wise, especially in wrestling."Wilcox said the decision wasn't based solely on Monday's practice."It's something we've been looking at for quite a while," he said.

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