Coach Bud Wright suspended

By GREGG MONTGOMERY
WISH-TV | wishtv.com

Bud Wright, who is in his 59th season as coach of Sheridan High School football, has been suspended.

Blackhawks athletic director Beth DeVinney suspended the Indiana football coaching icon, News 8 learned Friday evening.

Sources told News 8 that the suspension was due to insubordination, but Wright declined to discuss the reason.

Wright told News 8 that he is unsure when he’ll be back on the sidelines, but he was not at Friday night’s game at Clinton Central. He also noted he’s doing fine after missing the first game of the season for an injury he received during a preseason scrimmage.

News 8 reached out to DeVinney and Sheridan Community Schools Superintendent David Mundy, and left messages on their cellphones.

Wright this year entered his 60th season as a head football coach in the state of Indiana; 59 of those with the Blackhawks. Wright has led the Blackhawks to at least 456 wins and nine state championships during that time, and coached generations of players.

“He is Sheridan football,” Sheridan senior lineman Owen Trietsch told News 8 in a special report on Wright in August.

In the special report, Wright said coaching high school football for 60 years was not his original plan. “I did not dream of that at all to start with. My first reaction was that I’d coach football for 10 years, and then I’d thought maybe I’d go into law school. But that never happened. I just kept growing, kept coaching, and here I am.”

Sheridan is 2-2 on the season, defeating Clinton Central on Friday night 43-26.