Our good friends at Blue Collar Muse in Tennessee are working on an interesting story about the battle over a convicted felon's teaching credentials:

Lynn Lang and Milton Kirk were football coaches in Memphis, TN. An outstanding player of theirs was being recruited by top flight NCAA programs around the country. In 1999 and 2000 Lang received $150,000 in cash from Logan Young, a University of Alabama booster, to steer him to Alabama. Milton Kirk was to get a cut. When he didn’t he blew the whistle on Lang.

Milton Kirk pled guilty; was permanently banned from coaching and suspended from teaching for three years. He is currently teaching again.

Logan Young was convicted of money laundering and racketeering, sentenced to 6 months in prison and 6 months of house arrest and fined almost $100,000. Free on appeal, he was found beaten to death in his home in 2006.

But Lynn Lang’s story is the most intriguing. He initially disputed the charges before finally pleading guilty. He, too, was banned from coaching for life and had his teaching license revoked. Despite facing decades in jail, Lang was ultimately sentenced to time served (all of about a day), two years probation, Community Service and a $2,500 fine. He did not have to repay the money he received from Young although the IRS says he owes them $60,000 on the income while Lang swears he has no money left having given much of it to the player’s family.

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In Lang’s case, however, as soon as his probation was finished, as the Board allowed, he applied again for reinstatement of his license. Unlike the unfortunate Mr. Lott, Lang was found to have established his “rehabilitation” and to be fit “to perform the duties authorized by the educator license.” Of the 10 members who comprise the board, one was absent and one abstained. The other 8 voted to reinstate Lang.

Lang seems to like teaching. So much so, after he was charged with a felony in Tennessee, he moved to Michigan and took a position in education there. However, on his application there he neglected to mention his legal troubles here. That’s the reference to “obtaining a license by deceit” in the November, 2005 denial of his reinstatement application. Whether he was fired or resigned in Michigan depends on how you parse the matter. No one disputes he lied.

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