A beloved athletic director and head football coach at Celina Independent School District announced his retirement this week as district officials cleared him and other employees of wrongdoing in a sexual abuse case involving his son.
But a report by the district, released late Friday night, found “systemic” hiring issues and other failures in the athletics department he oversaw and at the middle school where his son taught, including allegations that the coach improperly influenced his son’s hiring.
Bill Elliott, who had been employed by the district for more than three decades, was placed on administrative leave in October after his 26-year-old son Caleb, an assistant football coach and sixth-grade social studies teacher, was accused of secretly filming boys in the Celina middle school’s locker room and possessing child pornography. Caleb Elliott surrendered his teaching license and remains in Collin County Jail on multiple federal charges.
