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Coach Ascolese is suffering from prostate cancer that has advanced into his bones, a relative of the coach said.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players
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Ingram Leitch and an Ascolese family member said the family flew Denzell to Oklahoma for a football camp in summer 2010.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players
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Eleven days later, the Leitches said, Ascolese was even more blunt with Denzell, telling him he had five days to pack and get out.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players
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Ascolese would not speak beyond his casting of the situation as a landloard-tenant dispute, telling the newspaper that he needed to avoid stress as he manages his illness.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players
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The two players at the center of this dispute are still attending North Bergen, and feeling in limbo, unsure whether any college interest (mostly sub-Football Bowl Series schools) will dissipate because of the Ascolese situation.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players
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Not only that, but the story says Ascolese rented apartments to the players in a home he owned in North Bergen, and then kicked them to the curb as soon as football season was over.
FORBES: Champion Public High School Football Coach Accused of Recruiting, Then Dumping, Players