Mark Ecke said Tuesday that lack of support from school officials played a role
in his decision to resign as Cheshire’s football coach.
Ecke said in an e-mail to media outlets Monday that he is
stepping down.
His decision comes almost
two weeks after being suspended due to an incident at a junior varsity lacrosse
game in Glastonbury involving his son Tucker on May 3 in which police were
called to the field.
Ecke, the head coach
at Cheshire since the 1995 season, was awaiting a hearing that had yet to be
scheduled by Cheshire’s Board of Education.
“It’s not a decision I wanted to make, but a decision that had to be done,” Ecke
told the Register on Tuesday. “I was told by (Cheshire superintendent Greg J.
Florio) that I would not enjoy the support of the administration if it went to a
hearing. I kind of was boxed into a corner.”
Read more here.
Chip Malafronte weighs in on the Ecke issue. Read it here.
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