Former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy has been accused of hounding and berating the referees of his stepson’s high school basketball game. McCarthy is seen in a video sitting in the bleachers during the game Tuesday. But after his stepson’s team lost the playoffs by a single point to Pulaski High School, officials say that McCarthy followed the officials out of the Notre Dame Academy gym and into the parking lot. That’s where the former Packers coach reportedly yelled at them and berated the officials according to Fox 11, Green Bay. School surveillance video does show what appears to be an animated McCarthy having words with a referee who waves the former NFL coach away. Officials filed a complaint against McCarthy with the WIAA. “This parent chose to follow the officials and berate them, which is clearly unacceptable,” Janel Batten, Pulaski’s athletic director, said in a statement. “Some things were said, some language was used that we don’t want in our gym, unsportsmanlike language. “Have you ever seen a parent walk after an official like that?” Batten asked Fox 11. Notre Dame Academy Athletic Director Steph Mathu also confirmed that the WIAA contacted him about the incident. “We have been contacted by the WIAA regarding last night’s basketball game, and we are currently looking further into this situation,” Mathu said in a statement. “We will continue to stress the importance of sportsmanship and respect to our students, parents, fans, and community members.” No further actions have yet taken place over the incident. Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.<doc-sep>We haven’t heard much from Mike McCarthy since the Packers fired him as head coach in early December. There was talk that he was in the mix for the Browns’ job because of his previous Green Bay relationships with Cleveland GM John Dorsey and assistant GM Eliot Wolf, but that all fizzled out when the Browns stuck with Freddie Kitchens. The thinking was that McCarthy was going to take a year off from coaching after 12-plus seasons leading the Packers.<doc-sep>Photo : Jamie Squire ( Getty ) Ex-Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, who was fired with four games remaining last season, can’t yell at NFL officials anymore. He’s apparently filling the void by shouting at and chasing high school basketball refs instead. And there’s video. Advertisement Per Ben Krumholz of Fox 11 in Green Bay, officials in the Pulaski (Wis.) School District confirmed McCarthy was “involved in an incident” after his stepson’s playoff game Tuesday night. After McCarthy’s stepson’s team lost by one point, McCarthy “chose to follow the officials and berate them, which is clearly unacceptable,” said Janel Batten, Pulaski’s athletic director, per Fox 11. “Some things were said, some language was used that we don’t want in our gym, unsportsmanlike language.” Fox 11 also reported that a formal complaint has been filed with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. Deadspin obtained security footage that shows a man with a look and build similar to McCarthy’s getting out of the stands before he follows the refs and a Pulaski school official, per Fox 11. One of the officials turns around and briefly confronts the man, who stops momentarily before walking off. The video has no audio, but Fox 11—which had it first—confirmed that McCarthy was the man who went after the refs. Off-camera, one of the refs described McCarthy’s behavior to Fox 11 as a “verbal tirade” that the ref called an “unfortunate situation.” [Fox 11]<doc-sep>To the surprise of many, ex-Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy did not get any of the open head coaching jobs this off-season. Many had him pegged as the new Cleveland Browns coach before the season even ended, then New York Jets fans got all riled up for McCarthy to come lead gang green. Rumors were that he wanted to slide into a franchise who had a good quarterback situation for the future, and both the Jets and Browns fit that mold. Both teams ended up going in a different direction.<doc-sep>
Mike McCarthy might not have realized working the officials in the NFL isn’t the same as working them in high school. Pulaski School District officials in Wisconsin filed a formal complaint against the former Packers coach for an incident with referees following his stepson’s high school basketball game on Tuesday night, according to FOX 11 in Green Bay. The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association filed the complaint. The incident occurred after Notre Dame Academy — the team for which McCarthy’s stepson plays — lost by a point to Pulaski High School. FOX 11, through an open records request, obtained video that appeared to show McCarthy following referees as they made their way out of the gym after the game. District officials confirmed the man in the video was McCarthy and said he directed “unsportsmanlike language” at the referees. “This parent chose to follow the officials and berate them, which is clearly unacceptable,” said Janel Batten, Pulaski’s athletic director. “Some things were said, some language was used that we don’t want in our gym, unsportsmanlike language.” One of the referees FOX 11 talked to off camera described the encounter as a “verbal tirade” and called it an “unfortunate situation.” Steph Mathu, Notre Dame Academy’s athletic director, also released a statement on the situation. “We have been contacted by the WIAA regarding last night’s basketball game, and we are currently looking further into this situation,” the statement said. “We will continue to stress the importance of sportsmanship and respect to our students, parents, fans, and community members.” The 55-year-old McCarthy expressed interest in coaching the Jets but was passed over for Adam Gase. After the Jets turned him down, he took himself out of consideration for all other head-coaching jobs for the upcoming season. McCarthy, who coached the Packers for 12-plus seasons, led the team to a Super Bowl in the 2010 season. He was fired with four games left in the 2018 season.