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When Devore Holman resigned as Davie’s football coach in the middle of the 2016 season, he said he stepped down for “personal reasons.”
A little over eight years later, he says that was not true, and he’s ready to set the record straight.
Holman was a Davie assistant coach from the early 1990s through 2012. In 2013, he replaced Doug Illing as head coach following Illing’s record-setting 15-year run at the helm. In Holman’s fourth year as the head man, the War Eagles were flying high at 7-1. Then he suddenly resigned. Tim Devericks took the reins and guided Davie to the CPC championship, the state quarterfinals and a 12-2 record.
But a bitter taste remains for Holman, who said last week he was forced to resign.
“The powers to be made it clear that this is what you need to say, so I had to go out and tell my kids on a Wednesday at practice that I would no longer be their head coach,” Holman said. “A lot of people called me and said: ‘What’s wrong?’ I had to lie to people for a long time, saying I had personal issues going on, but that was not the case. I did what I was told. I should’ve gotten me an attorney and I should’ve gotten the NAACP involved. I just need to make that clear. There are a lot of people that know the real reason, but then there are some people that said he stepped down on his own. That’s not true. I just want to make sure that’s clarified.”