Lets end all of the rumors right now. I was there, not just there but involved. David never said the N word, if you knew him you would know that is bull. Mcniel walked up to David and pushed him not expecting the response he got from David. He had TWO other freinds with him. After the game, David walked up to me and pointed out Mcniel to me. I saw Mcniel looking back and forth across the gym and he then made eye contact with David and told his friends to follow him. He walked right up to David and pushed him. I would have stepped inbetween them but I did not think a sophomore who got to start on varsity would throw it all away that stupidly. I pulled Mcniel and David apart and then his friends jumped on David, nobody has even mentioned his third friend involved who stood there after the fight was over and still taunted David and his dad, who were in the stands still. luckily Davids dad was there with Dr Swafford to break it up. It was Mcniels freind that really blew it for him ,he made it ten times worse. He was running his mouth when Hixson played in Soddy a couple of weeks ago. He was talking trash to David and his little brothers right in front of thier dad. Then during the JV game Tuesday night, and this is on tape!!!!!!!!!!!! the three of them were on the Soddy side and saw David sitting with his parents watching his little brother and went around to the Hixson side and sat one row behind them and proceeded to talk trash. They made jokes about David's parents, about David, and his brothers, and David ignored him. No one jumped in anybody's face. During half-time Mcniel walked past Jonathan, David's little brother, and said that he didn't want him he wanted his brother( meaning David). It may have looked like they were victims because of the bloody towels that Mcniel had up to his mouth and eye but they were the agressors and now they will pay the consequences. I kind of feel bad for him because he has talent and his friends are going to hurt his chances of playing college ball. Oh yeah ,by the way, the refs were horrible if anybody needed to get beat up it would be them (just kidding) those Soddy parents sure let them know it though ,they were on the sidelines screaming in the refs face and just being out of control, If anyone tries puttin this on Hixson their just plain ignorent. I was at the Grundy game as well and The bottles came from the Grundy County side.
I even saw one of the soddy parents try to get into it with David's dad after the fight was over. David's dad tried to get someone to get the third friend out of the gym because he was still starting trouble, and the Soddy parent in a gay yellow sweater started yellin up at him, lucky for the Soddy parent that David's dad was busy trying to get things back under control, and just ignored the little man. Student athletes cannot act like this, I wonder who taught them to act like this.
