By T. Scott Boatright
After finishing the 2024 season with the best regular season in school history at 7-3, Lincoln Preparatory School football coach Glen Hall has been shown the door.
Hall said he was informed shortly before noon Monday when LPS Chief Academic Officer Crystal Washington told him she was relieving him of his duties at the school.
Washington took over as head of the school in January after former executive director Gordan Ford, one of the founders of the school, left the school for another occupational role in Washington D.C.
“I was shocked when she told me,” Hall said. “I sure didn’t see that coming. She had a board meeting at (noon) and called me in at 11:50 and told me she was going to let me go. She said it was about salary. My thing is, and I asked her, did she start from the bottom? And she did respond to that. She just said again that she was going to let me go.”
Hall, who served as a longtime assistant coach under the legendary Eddie G. Robinson, previously coached his high school alma mater, Mansfield, before coming to Lincoln Prep when it opened as a new school in 2016.
“I thought I was one of the mainstays,” Hall said. “I had been there for nine years, and boom, out of nowhere with no warning, I’m out. We were coming off a great season. I was named Coach of the Year. And this happens. It was shocking.”
Hall, who had also coached high school football in Texas after Robinson’s retirement from coaching in 1997, said he hopes to continue coaching somewhere next season.
“I’ve had a lot of coaches reach out to me and tell me that this way here is not how it’s supposed to end,” Hall said. “And I do think Glen Hall should emerge again as a coach, even as an assistant. I’ll be a great assistant to any coach. I just believe this thing here wasn’t meant for me, with her, after she took over.
“Right now I think I just need to move on somewhere and make sure that wherever I am, the kids there can get some of the best teaching and coaching they’ve ever had from one of the best coaches I know, and that’s me.”
Responding to multiple messages made reaching out to her for comment on the matter, Washington said via text message just before 10 p.m. Monday that she would not be making a statement before addressing her staff on Tuesday.
