{"id":1429595,"date":"2025-07-26T07:35:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429595"},"modified":"2025-07-29T04:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T09:46:33","slug":"kilgore-college-fires-coach-because-of-theft-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429595","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore College fires coach because of theft claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1429597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Kilgore \u2014 Kilgore College has terminated their assistant football coach after finding out about criminal charges in another state.  According to our news partner KETK, 41-year-old Forrest Mazy, is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an Oklahoma high school. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma authorities said that Mazey is accused of  \u201cfraudulently appropriating the sum\u201d of more than $4,600 that belonged to McAlester Public Schools. He has pleaded not guilty earlier this month and was released on a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kilgore College website, Mazey, who was listed as the  teams offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, was fired after college officials found out about the charges in Oklahoma. Mazey was the head coach at McAlester High School from 2019 to 2025, where he also served as the dean of students. He also spent four seasons as the head coach at Poteau High School, where he led the Pirates to two undefeated seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilgore \u2014 Kilgore College has terminated their assistant football coach after finding out about criminal charges in another state. According to our news partner KETK, 41-year-old Forrest Mazy, is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an Oklahoma high school. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma authorities said that Mazey is accused of \u201cfraudulently appropriating the sum\u201d of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1429595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore College fires coach because of theft claim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1429691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 01:05:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/FORREST-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429595"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430131,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429595\/revisions\/1430131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}