It’s been a week since Edinburg Football Player, Emmanuel Duron, put a blindsight hit on a referee after ejecting him from the game. However, the punishments of this incident are far from over. The school district itself decided to remove their team from the playoffs this year, which many viewed as extreme but the school later released that the UIL would have removed them anyways.
They were correct in this statement, and on Monday morning punishment from the UIL came during an executive meeting in Austin. Emmanuel Duron has been suspended from UIL activities for the remainder of his senior year (20-21), the head football coach has been placed on probation for the 2021-2022 season, and the Rio Grande Valley athletic department has also been placed on a two-year probation for the hit.