Dave Zirin: Why Did Steubenville Renew the Football Coach’s Contract?

Dave Zirin: Why Did Steubenville Renew the Football Coach’s Contract?

Dave Zirin: Why Did Steubenville Renew the Football Coach’s Contract?

The high school football coach is on board for two more years—despite the jock-turned-rape culture in his locker room.

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Despite sexism in the ranks of the Steubenville, Ohio, football team—and the rape committed by two of its players—the school signed Coach Reno Saccoccia to a new two-year contract. “What we know in terms of what players said about, oh, Coach Sac thinks it’s a big joke…. the fact that he was caught on camera threatening a female reporter,” Nation sports editor Dave Zirin says, “Things like that make you think, this is the person who’s going to mold the minds of young children?” Zirin joins a panel on The Melissa Harris-Perry Show to discuss the aftermath of Steubenville and the crisis young women face in schools across the country.

James Cersonsky

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