FORT SCOTT — Fort Scott High School head football coach Johnathan Stark told the USD 234 Board of Education on Monday that board member Mike Miles criticized his coaching and shared information about the Tigers with the father of a Paola player before the teams' season opener.
Stark said the messages were subsequently shared with Paola's coaching staff.
Miles told the Monitor he regrets the messages but never intended to hurt the program. Miles and the board's president and vice president confirmed that he was given two options after the messages surfaced: resign or have the matter brought before the board.
"I said what I said. And I regret it," Miles wrote in a statement emailed to the Monitor late Monday in response to a request for comment. He also posted the statement to Facebook.
Stark, Fort Scott High School Principal Jeff Johnson and Assistant Principal Josh Regan spoke during public forum at the board's Nov. 9 meeting. Minutes earlier, Board President David Stewart had raised the matter under an agenda item on board member expectations without naming Miles.