{"id":26036,"date":"2024-08-21T00:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T06:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-football-coach-williams-reportedly-is-placed-on-paid-leave\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:32:48","slug":"aztec-football-coach-williams-reportedly-is-placed-on-paid-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-football-coach-williams-reportedly-is-placed-on-paid-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec football coach Williams reportedly is placed on paid leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e3676a58-b1d7-5821-8b19-6952abf4906e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1405\" alt=\"Nic Williams, shown here coaching the Booker (Texas) football team in 2022, reportedly has been placed on administrative leave at Aztec High School. (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Nic Williams, shown here coaching the Booker (Texas) football team in 2022, reportedly has been placed on administrative leave at Aztec High School. (Courtesy photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>AZTEC \u2013 Multiple independent sources have confirmed to the <em id=\"emphasis-99e87b4ffec426b46adad56997ffd11a\">Tri-City Record <\/em>that Aztec High School head football coach Nic Williams has been placed on paid, administrative leave pending further investigation into alleged rules violations.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who was hired last year and was set to make his coaching debut for the Tigers on Friday when they open the season at Fred Cook Memorial Stadium against Rio Grande High School, confirmed his status via text message on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Aztec High School athletic director David Sweet could neither confirm nor deny Williams\u2019 status for this weekend\u2019s game, but did confirm that an active investigation was taking place.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c96dbd6f-eaed-59ff-8793-d26718dfbcbc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" alt=\"Nic Williams (Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Nic Williams (Courtesy photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>\u201cThere is an investigation underway and the results of that investigation have not been finalized or completed yet,\u201d Sweet said. \u201cBecause this an ongoing investigation, there have been no terminations to this point, and I cannot say who will be on the sidelines on Friday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Details as to what led to the investigation also have not been confirmed by the <em id=\"emphasis-683f2812bdc3cf323f413ffc3a1a6c18\">Tri-City Record, <\/em>though Sweet did state that the investigation revolved around several coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had couple of coaches who are being investigated for some actions which may or may not have been taken,\u201d Sweet said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-1921a19ba09564503b9dbe06821f2fcf\">This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>open football season at home Friday night against Rio Grande<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[799,28,642,346],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79198,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions\/79198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}