John Jay (San Antonio) assistant coach Mack Breed said he ordered two football players to target an official during a Sept. 4 game against Marble Falls for using racial slurs and missed calls, according to an ESPN report. 
 
 According to a document obtained by ESPN in an Outside the Lines report, Breed admitted to the school’s principal, Robert Harris, that he “directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls.” 
 
 Breed has been on paid administrative leave since the incident, which received national attention. 
 
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 An attorney for umpire Robert Watts has vehemently denied that Watts used racial slurs. During an interview last week with Good Morning America, the players said Watts used the “n-word” and also told a Hispanic player “this is America, speak English.” 
 
 Harris was not at the game but wrote in a letter about the incident that he spoke with head coach Greg Gutierrez multiple times on the bus ride back from the game and then met with him in the school parking lot. Guttierrez said Breed asked him on the bus ride what would happen to the two players. 
 
 “I later met with Coach Breed at John Jay High School … in my office in the presence of Coach Gutierrez,” Harris wrote, according to ESPN. “Coach Breed told me that he directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls. He wanted to take full responsibility for his actions. Mr. Breed at one point during our conversation stated that he should have handled the referee himself.” 
 
 Sophomore Victor Rojas and senior Michael Moreno, the Jay players who simply said they were just doing what they were told, will have disciplinary hearings regarding their actions on Wednesday. 
 
 The State Executive Committee of the UIL is scheduled to meet Thursday. Breed is among those expected to testify. 
 
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 San Antonio commentator rips players who targeted official for ‘vigilante justice’ ||||| SAN ANTONIO -- An assistant coach at John Jay High School in San Antonio told his school principal that he ordered his players to hit a referee in a Sept. 4 game out of anger that the official used racist language, according to evidence obtained by Outside the Lines. 
 
 In a signed statement detailing his interactions with the head coach after the game, John Jay High School principal Robert Harris says the team's secondary coach, Mack Breed, admitted he "directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls." 
 
 On Wednesday, 15-year-old John Jay sophomore Victor Rojas and 17-year-old senior Michael Moreno attended disciplinary hearings at the Northside Independent School District headquarters in San Antonio. Afterward, district officials said they would release information about any consequences for Rojas and Moreno "because both are minors and protected by the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act." 
 
 On Sept. 4, Rojas and Moreno blindsided official Robert Watts late in the fourth quarter of a game in Marble Falls, Texas, on a deliberate tackle from behind -- captured on video -- that has now been seen on YouTube by more than 11 million people. 
 
 According to a sideline source and the accounts provided to Outside the Lines of four John Jay players, Watts used the N-word twice during the game, once before and once after the infamous hits, and also used language offensive to Hispanics. 
 
 Watts has declined to comment, but his attorney, Alan Goldberger, said Watts denies he used racist remarks of any kind. 
 
 Wednesday's hearings were not be open to the public, but the statement from Harris provides a window into some of the evidence the hearing officer will consider when handing down a punishment to Rojas and Moreno. 
 
 Harris, who attended the game at Marble Falls, indicated he did not see Rojas or Moreno hit Watts late in the fourth quarter. Harris wrote in his statement that John Jay head coach Gary Gutierrez called him several times as the team made the nearly 90-mile trip home after the game, informing him that two John Jay players struck an official. 
 
 After reaching the school, Harris wrote, Gutierrez eventually met face-to-face with Harris in Harris' car in the school parking lot. 
 
 "He then informed me that Coach Breed had disclosed to him [Gutierrez] that he directed the players to take out the referee," Harris wrote. "[Gutierrez] stated that Coach Breed initially asked him what was going to happen to the players during their ride home from the game. After Coach Gutierrez informed him that the players would be removed from the team, he informed Coach Gutierrez that he directed the players to strike the referee." 
 
 That meeting, in the early-morning hours of Sept. 5, was followed by another meeting in Harris' office, at 6 p.m. that same day. 
 
 "I later met with Coach Breed at John Jay High School ... in my office in the presence of Coach Gutierrez," Harris wrote. "Coach Breed told me that he directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls. He wanted to take full responsibility for his actions. Mr. Breed at one point during our conversation stated that he should have handled the referee himself." 
 
 Breed has declined to comment publicly about what he told his players. He is expected to attend a hearing of the University Interscholastic League on Thursday in Round Rock, Texas, at which time the governing body of Texas high school athletics could sanction Breed and John Jay's football program. 
 
 "If found guilty of violating the Student Code of Conduct, the range of consequences could range from assignment to alternative school to expulsion," a school district spokesperson said. 
 
 Rojas and Moreno already have been assigned to an alternative school and are prohibited from even watching John Jay games as spectators. In an interview with Outside the Lines last week, they said it was Breed, whom they both said they consider a "second father," who ordered them to hit Watts. Rojas and Moreno said Breed had grown increasingly angry about penalties, ejections and the alleged racial slurs by Watts. 
 
 John Barr is an investigative reporter in ESPN's Enterprise Unit.
– John Jay High School's assistant football coach has fessed up to telling two players to hit a referee from behind during a Sept. 4 game in Texas. School principal Robert Harris says Mack Breed admitted he "directed the students to make the referee pay for his racial comments and calls," reports ESPN. Four players and a source on the sidelines say official Robert Watts used the N-word once before and once after he was tackled and told a Hispanic player, "this is America, speak English," per USA Today; Watts denies using any racist remarks. Harris says Breed asked the team's head coach what would happen to the players, Victor Rojas, 15, and Michael Moreno, 17, after the game. When he was told they'd be removed from the team, Breed admitted to ordering the hit, Harris says. He later confessed again in the principal's office. "Breed at one point during our conversation stated that he should have handled the referee himself," Harris adds. Breed, now on paid administrative leave, will face sanctions today at a University Interscholastic League hearing, as does John Jay's football program. During a disciplinary hearing yesterday, Rojas and Moreno were banned from attending all John Jay games and told they must attend another school for 75 days. They can return to John Jay on Jan. 15, at which point they will have no restrictions on their extracurricular activities, KSAT reports. "If they hadn't been directed by a coach, if there hadn't been a referee that was using racist language, they wouldn't have done this," their lawyer says. "And they regret it."