Samples Suspended, Duncanville Placed on UIL Probation
The UIL State Executive Committee (SEC) met to discuss a number of topics on Wednesday, most notably to hear the case of the District 8-6A Executive Committee (DEC) referring a case involving Duncanville High School and using a coach who wasn’t a district employee during football season. The 8-6A DEC met in November to discuss the case and opted to send the case to the UIL for review and the SEC ruled that Duncanville did use a coach who was not an employee of Duncanville ISD and ruled that head coach Reginald Samples would be suspended for one game and the football program placed on probation. Coach Samples owned up to what he referred to as a “mistake” and advised he would take the suspension and move forward.