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Miamisburg high school football coach Lance Schneider just wanted to educate his seventh grade class about nutrition.

All it got him was paid administrative leave.

Schneider is Miamisburg’s varsity high school football coach. He teaches seventh graders at the city’s middle school.

It wasn’t necessarily the film, ‘Super Size Me,’ that landed Schneider in hot water. In a classic high school football coach move, he just didn’t get permission slips from the students’ parents to show it.

“The decision to place him on leave is a standard procedure while we conduct an internal review,” Miamisburg City Schools Superintendent Laura Blessing and Miamisburg Middle School Assistant Athletic Supervisor Jason Shade said in a message to parents.

Look, it’s a high school football coach. What do you expect from the guy?

A high school football coach is liable to take you on a field trip without a permission slip, let alone show you a movie.

‘Hey y’all, ol’ Becky’s mom up there runnin concessions is low on solo cups for the game this week. Let’s head up to the dollar mart and see what we can salvage.’

And Coach Schneider has more important things to comb over than a permission slip for a highly educational film.

There’s game tape to study while his students take notes on the dangers of fast food.

And he also gets to set the tone for any middle school football players who hope to play for his program one day, as I explain on this episode of Go Fight Win with Wes Blankenship.

‘We won’t tolerate Big Macs and Filet-O-Fish’s in our locker room. No sir. We don’t eat that crap and expect to win state.’

Nutrition is rarely a focus of a high school coach. This is a step in the right direction

Ol’ coach more than likely subsided on salt tablets and a swig of water for his nutrition back in the day.

This is a marked improvement over that and the nutritional priorities of your average high school coach.

Some places just throw a cold chicken breast and a room-temperature salad in front of you before a game.

Coach Schneider just wants a well-oiled machine eating all the right stuff in his program.

He made a mistake going 100 miles an hour and that’s all you can ask for.

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