LGBTQ community between a coach/teacher and a student-athlete on our campus". However, the position of school officials for the firing remains unclear. Though he is banned from coaching football, he currently still attains his position as a history teacher. This event had seen a reaction from the football team, local LGBT groups, the school community, and administration. Key accounts and disputes Primary accounts of the incident can be attributed to the football players themselves, who that had confirmed him saying these words. According to Rocky Brebes, after "one junior varsity player kept sitting in the locker room and smiling at the head coach," Kelly got mad at the player, telling him "to stop looking at him like a homosexual and to get the hell to practice." After this occurrence, it escalated quickly as the junior then ran out of the locker room, where many students from an athletics class witnessed him screaming and cursing at Kelly from a distance for over five minutes. Reactions from local LGBT groups According to major local media outlet KSBY, upon hearing of the situation, local LGBT groups have taken it upon themselves to claim the situation as "marginalizing toward certain groups". According to KSBY, "GALA (Gay and Lesbian Alliance of the Central Coast) and 13 other nonprofits" have asked "to suspend Kelley from teaching." The President of the GALA Ryan Duclos has also made unverified claims that "GALA has received phone calls from students who tell similar stories" relating to "uncomfortable comments about gay people on multiple occasions" from Kelly. Furthermore, people on the GALA Facebook page has reportedly made similarly structured and unverified claims. Reaction from the football team Many of the players of the football team had instigated that the situation was one taken advantage of by the school, in simple terms a ploy. Known for having performed poorly in football the past three years, the football team assumed that the losing record of Morro Bay as of recently played a "factor" in his firing. This is known as the Morro Bay varsity team had finished the 2018 season 1-9 over and 0-5 (win/loss) in Ocean League. Students on the football team, being primary witnesses to the situation, have believed that the performance of the football team under Coach Kelly had played apart of his firing. Despite the principal labeling the situation as one that was "hate speech", it is known that