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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- The Logan Grizzlies are rewriting their game plan after a man with ties to another school was suspected of spying on the prep football team.
Spies -- in high school sports?
"It's just crazy what people will do to win a football game," Logan coach Mike Favero said.
The coach at Tooele High School was embarrassed when he heard the news.
"All you guys must think we're the dirtiest people in the world. ... That's not us at all," said Sam Elliott, who had no role in the sneaky business.
Logan's coaches became suspicious when they saw Matthew Hunter writing in a notebook Tuesday. Police were called when he declined to stop, Favero said.
And then Hunter, 25, found himself in bigger trouble.
He was arrested for alcohol and drug offenses and giving false information to an officer, Lt. Brad Franke said.
Hunter's father and brother are assistant coaches at Tooele.
"The guy just thought he could help us out and he was at the practice just trying to get things to pass on to his brother," Elliott said. "This is my second year as a head coach and something like this comes on. It's not what I want. This is going to hang over me."
Hunter could not be reached for comment Thursday. There is no phone listing for him in Wellsville.
Although it's considered bad practice, there is no prohibition against scouting a team's practice, said Jerry Bovee, assistant director of the Utah High School Activities Association.
"It really becomes an ethics question more than a rules question for us," he said. ------ Information from The Herald Journal: http://www.hjnews.com
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) APTV-10-05-06 1708MDT
