Coach Rock

Though he wasn't qualified to coach anything but running, Rock was the head boys basketball coach at North Little Rock High.
Rock's team had performed well in his first season, making a deep run into the state playoffs. Nevertheless, he was suspended shortly after the season for having played an ineligible player. Someone had discovered a transfer irregularity from the year before he arrived, and North Little Rock High principal Jerry Smith allowed Rock to take the fall. Students throughout the school were upset by what they perceived as unfairness dealt their beloved coach. They staged a parade of protest from the parking lot of the Waffle House on Main Street.
The protesters marched south, half a block on Main before they turned right on 22nd to pass in front of the eighty-year-old school building, a gothic revival colossus similar to nearby Little Rock Central's building (though with nothing close to the historical significance). Rock sat on the broad staircase with several players in a crowd of at least a thousand students and faculty as the protesters paraded past.
Rock noticed that Smith watched him from the weed-strewn lawn of a dilapidated house across the street. Smith lifted a megaphone to his mouth and said, "Coach Rock, I suggest you avoid getting your picture in the paper."
It was overcast. Rain had been predicted, so several in the gathering brought umbrellas. A student in front of Rock opened one right after Smith's pronouncement. "Here Coach," he said. "You can hide behind this if you think you need to."