HSE Coach suspended after bus incident

FISHERS, Ind. (WISH) - Hamilton Southeastern School District is taking action in an alleged case of bullying on a bus. Today, the HSE Schools Superintendent Dr. Brian Smith says he will not tolerate the behavior.

“I would call it "sophomoric horseplay." And unacceptable and luckily it didn't become serious.” said Dr. Smith.

Coaches and students are facing discipline in an incident the school's superintendent says should have never should have happened.

The police report details what police saw in school bus video and what they learned from the Hamilton Southeastern High School football players and coaches involved.
While police say the incident didn't rise to the criminal level, it was enough for the school district to take action.

Discipline for 2 students - football players. "They will be disciplined according to our extra curricular code of conduct." Said Dr. Smith.
And it's not just students facing discipline.

“At the same time we are reviewing our procedures with our coaches and Ads and we don't feel that we provided the best practice in terms of supervising the students for that reason our head coach is being suspended for one game and the other employees involved will be reprimanded." said Dr. Smith.

The head coach Scott May suspended for the game against Zionsville this Saturday. And the other employees: two assistant coaches and two athletic directors who will receive verbal and written reprimands.

It's the result of a weekend long investigation...that involved Fishers Police.

24-Hour news 8 spoke with Reginald Coleman, a father of one of the football players.
"When he jumped in the car cause I was joking around with some of the players asking them you guys weren't ready tonight and you took a loss and he got in the car and he started crying." said Coleman.

Reginald Coleman says the conversation that followed prompted his call to the school and to Fishers Police.

According to the police report, "the younger players were 'calling out' the older players on how poorly they played the game." And things escalated to what the Hamilton Southeastern Schools Superintendent Dr. Brian Smith is calling "sophomoric horseplay."
According to the police report, one of the players did "urinate in an empty bottle" and "then harassed the teammates sitting in front of him with it."

And according to the police report, in retaliation the player "Did put his hands down his pants and threatened to put his hand in (one of the player's) face."

The school will not comment further on the discipline the students will be facing citing the Family Educational Right to Privacy act.