{"id":344058,"date":"2023-11-04T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344058"},"modified":"2023-11-04T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T20:00:37","slug":"lipscomb-academy-football-coach-kevin-mawae-part-ways-after-tennessee-playoff-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=344058","title":{"rendered":"Lipscomb Academy, football coach Kevin Mawae part ways after Tennessee playoff ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pro Football Hall of Famer and Lipscomb Academy football head coach Kevin Mawae parted ways on Friday, a week after the team received a two-year postseason ban from the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) for a recruiting violation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lipscomb Academy headmaster Brad Schultz said in a statement to The Tennessean that Mawae and the academy &#8220;mutually agreed to part ways.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We appreciate Kevin&#8217;s service as head of the coaching staff and for leading the Mustang football team as it transitioned into a higher level of competition this season,&#8221; Schultz said\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2023\/11\/03\/kevin-mawae-fired-lipscomb-academy-tssaa-football-playoff-ban\/71377908007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in the statement.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mawae served as head coach for one season, stepping in after former coach and NFL star Trent Dilfer left the program for the UAB head coaching job. After winning back-to-back DII-AA state championships under Dilfer, the team moved up to the DII-AAA division and went 4-6 under Mawae.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of those losses was the forfeit of a win over Briarcrest after the TSSAA ruled that Notre Dame quarterback commit Deuce Knight and three-star prospect Kohl Bradley &#8220;did not have a bona fide change of address when they moved to Mississippi,&#8221; The Tennessean wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That was one of two findings of the TSSAA. The other was a recruiting violation &#8220;based on a brief text conversation between a football assistant coach and a former parent.&#8221; TSSAA executive director Mark Reeves wrote to Schultz that the organization&#8217;s findings suggest a coach &#8220;was offering to &#8216;intercede&#8217; with donors to help secure financial assistance for the family,&#8221; according to the Tennessean. Read more\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2023\/11\/03\/kevin-mawae-fired-lipscomb-academy-tssaa-football-playoff-ban\/71377908007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2023\/10\/27\/lipscomb-academy-ban-tssaa-football-playoffs\/71340496007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">here<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In February, the Lipscomb Academy athletics program was\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2023\/02\/27\/lipscomb-academy-athletic-programs-placed-on-probation-for-one-year\/69950255007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">placed on probation<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0and fined by the TSSAA for a social media post featuring a girls basketball player that the organization said broke a recruiting rule.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lipscomb Academy and head coach Kevin Mawae parted ways after a playoff ban related to recruiting violations, as ruled by the TSSAA.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344059,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344058\/revisions\/344059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}