Boy's Basketball Team Walk-Out
After a nine-point loss to Los Gatos High School on December 16, 2011, in a post-game talk, Coach Mike Allen addressed his "need to rebuild" the boy's basketball team. The next morning the top five players were kicked off the team with Allen citing reasons such as their lack of respect, playful attitudes, and tardiness, to the Mercury News, but at the time of the expulsion no explanation was given to the players. The day afterward, thirteen varsity players approached Coach Allen "wanting to talk," but as their intentions proved unsuccessful, the thirteen players left the basketball team together. The players condemn the coach's rash decision, hypocrisy, and claimed that some of the events from the walkout were fabricated when the coach was interviewed. Allen stated that he "loves to death, but some things need to change." The walkout had caused many losses for the boy's basketball team that season along with continual news coverage from KRON 4.
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