Toggle Menu

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.

Press Room

April 29, 2013

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

Read more about how you can support the national “Know Your IX” campaign at StudentNation.

Press RoomTwitterBig Nation announcements and select interview clips. For media inquiries, booking requests or further information, please contact: Caitlin Graf, VP, Communications, The Nation press [at] thenation.com / 212-209-5400


Latest from the nation