Ever wonder what it would be like to hear Brett Favre discuss a practice from a coach's perspective? After his first official day at the helm of the Hattiesburg (Miss.) Oak Grove High football offense, now we all know.

As it turns out, Favre the coach sounds an awful lot like Favre the player; he's just as folksy and charming, only now he's complaining about having to run passing routes himself instead of offensive game plans designed to minimize the scope of his mistakes.

"We got a long ways to go," Favre told Hattiesburg NBC affiliate WDAM. "We're way out of shape, including me. I was struggling there at the end. …

"It's a learning process for me, and I think I'll be learning all year."

As first published by WDAM, Favre weighed in on his new team's first practice and admitted to a bit of transitional difficulty. In particular, the new coach said he is struggling to adapt to the Oak Grove offensive terminology, and remains dependent in large part on the team's other offensive coaches to call plays and offer specific advice based on the play that was just completed.

While those struggles might have put a damper on Favre's first day at the new office, he had plenty of other things to smile about. The Packers legend told WDAM that new Oak Grove student Cameron Myers, a quarterback transfer from Lithonia (Ga.) Martin Luther King High, had what Favre considered to be "the best arm in the state."

A Fresno (Calif.) boys basketball coach finds his career and day-to-day life in jeopardy after he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in connection with an accident that tragically killed a 7-year-old boy riding on his bike and seriously injured the boy's father and 18-month-old sister.

Fresno Central coach Loren Lebeau — Fresno Bee

As reported by the Fresno Bee, Fresno NBC affiliate KSEE and a handful of other area outlets, Fresno (Calif.) Central High boys basketball coach Loren Lebeau struck 7-year-old boy Donovan Maldonado while Maldonado was out on a bike ride home from a football practice with his father and sister, who were riding just in front of him on a bike with a child seat. All three Maldonados were struck by Lebeau's car in the crosswalk just outside a trail on which they had been riding.

According to KSEE, Donovan Maldonado was dragged by Lebeau's car for more than 100 yards after impact, leaving the boy fighting for life. He later died at an area hospital where his father and sister remained in critical condition.

Lebeau initially fled the scene of the crash but quickly returned to hold himself accountable for the accident. The Fresno Bee reported that the coach was estimated to be traveling at approximately 45 miles-per-hour in a 40-mph zone, with the coach's lawyer claiming that his client has been devastated by the accident.

"He has dedicated his entire adult life to enriching the lives of children, then this happens," Fresno attorney Jeff Hammerschmidt told the Bee.

Two Florida teenagers recently earned the pride of their school by winning national titles in their sport, yet were still overshadowed by another teammate. How? He won a world title.

Montverde Academy powerlifters Elliot Grietens, Josh Arnold and Jake Carter — Montverde Academy

As reported by the Orlando Sentinel, three different members of the Montverde (Fla.) Academy powerlifting squad earned a set of notable titles in a matter of weeks during the summer period. First, teammates Jake Carter and Josh Arnold dominated the 14-15 year-old division at the American Drug Free Federation Championships in Massachusetts.

Carter won a whopping four national titles -- squat, bench press, powerlifting and deadlift -- in the 114-pound class. Arnold followed that up with a powerlifting title in the 148-pound class.

Yet both Carter and Arnold were forced to take a backseat to young Elliot Grietens, a freshman who competed up in age group yet still won the 16-17 year old division of the World Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation Single Lift Championships, which were held in Autun, France. Like Arnold, Grietens was competing in the 148-pound class.

Of all the possible subjects to embody the bold new way of college football recruiting, Tathan "Tate" Martell isn't the most likely. Martell is entering the eighth grade and is still some way off from picking his eventual high school destination. He's a talented quarterback, complete with solid fundamentals and strong field vision, but the last time he was able to showcase any of those skills in a competitive game, he was just 13 years old.

In short, Tate Martell is precisely the kind of kid who should be enjoying summer camp, not weighing college football scholarship offers.

Incredibly, Martell finds himself doing the latter after he received an offer to join the Washington Huskies' recruiting class of 2017. According to the Seattle Times, Martell accepted the offer after conferring with his father, even though he won't be able to sign off on the scholarship papers for five years.

"You put this opportunity in front of 100 14-year-olds, and I guarantee you that you are at probably 100 percent [who would take it]," Martell's father, Al Martell, told the Times.

It's entirely possible that Martell will eventually become a top-flight college quarterback. Still, trying to predict that success based on an extremely limited middle school sample size is either risky or downright crazy, depending on whom one asks.

While Martell may be the latest hot name in the youth recruiting movement, he's not the first. In fact, he shares a common bond with the current poster child of early recruiting, 16-year-old Delaware native David Sills, who committed to USC when he was just 14; like Sills, Martell has been trained by renowned quarterback guru Steve Clarkson.

Sills remains committed to the Trojans and enjoyed two impressive high school seasons at Bear (Del.) Red Lion Christian Academy since he made his pledge to coach Lane Kiffin. Whether Martell will be able to find similar success under the glare of a Pac-12 scholarship remains to be seen.

A high school wrestler in Iowa was found guilty of harassment but innocent of assault after a disturbing incident in which he allegedly placed his genitalia on the face of an underclassman who was held down by teammates.

The Lisbon wrestling program was wracked by a hazing scandal in 2012 — Facebook

As reported by the Cedar Rapids Gazette and Associated Press, among other sources, 17-year-old Austin Edwards was found guilty of third-degree harassment in Linn County Court in connection with an incident in which he allegedly held down a 15-year-old Lisbon (Iowa) High teammate and placed his bare genitalia on the boy's face in the school's wrestling room.

The disturbing incident allegedly occurred in December, when the boy reported its occurrence to the Lisbon police department, claiming that the entire episode occurred before the team's coaches arrived in the school's wrestling room.

Troublingly, the harassment case wasn't even the only disturbing incident which befell the unnamed 15-year-old. In April an 18-year-old named Dakota VanDyke entered a so-called "Alford plea" in connection with urinating on the teenager in the school's locker room showers.

The Alford plea essentially locked VanDyke in to a guilty plea in exchange for dropping the charge from a more punitive assault charge to simple assault, which is a misdemeanor.

The gun violence which has plagued Chicago all summer took the life of one of the city's most promising athletes, just as he was preparing to depart for a bright future in college basketball.

Iona basketball recruit Michael Haynes — Rivals.com

As confirmed by the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Daily News and a variety of other sources, Iona basketball recruit Michael Haynes was shot dead on Thursday night in Chicago. According to Haynes' cousin, the 6-foot-7 forward was shot in front of his house while trying to break up a fight, with bullets piercing his wrist, chest and lower back.

The Sun-Times reported that Haynes was transported to a nearby hospital shortly after the attack but died a little more than an hour after being shot.

Haynes' cousin, 25-year-old Kandice Blouin, said that Haynes was a completely innocent victim in the altercation that took his life.

"He was an innocent victim, very loved by everybody," Blouin told the Sun-Times. "He was our meal ticket. He was going to heal this hood and they took his life."

[Iona coach Tim Cluess on Haynes' death: "He was one of those kids you wanted to coach because he was a different personality"]

Haynes was known around his community for trying to help others out, a facet of his personality which shone through in the final tweet he sent before his death; a message for St. John's point guard Phil Greene, encouraging him to work hard in the summer so others didn't catch up to his skills.

They came in search of the American dream, a chance to use their talents to secure a U.S. collegiate education and a brighter future. What they claim they received instead was a Southern-fried nightmare: A church-backed school exploiting its students to work for its own profit, all while physically abusing them on the basketball court on multiple occasions.

This is the story of Richmond (Va.) Southside Baptist Christian School and its recruitment and exploitation of basketball players from Jamaica, whether it originally intended to exploit them or not. It is a saga that began in 2007 and eventually left multiple teenagers stranded without proper immigration paperwork and without a school transcript and often in debt.

More specifically, four Jamaican teenagers who were allegedly left stranded in an economic bind by the school spoke on the record with Prep Rally. Others interviewed also spoke on the condition of anonymity. While there, all four of the teenagers were present when three were allegedly whipped after returning from a game and all claim to have witnessed a coach violently attack a fellow foreign teammate during a practice.

The players' entire stories were chronicled in a series of lengthy interviews with Prep Rally and ScoutsFocus, which first made contact with a concerned Southside Baptist athlete. Prep Rally placed a phone call to the school's administration, where a message was taken for the school's founder Dr. Lonnie Stinson, but that message has yet to be returned.

The 2008 Southside Baptist basketball team — Chris Villiars photo

For their efforts, Christopher Villiers, Melvin Robinson, Omarie Williams and Jason Smith, all natives of Jamaica, were forced to work extreme hours at a thrift store owned by Southside Baptist Church and to do odd jobs for which they were auctioned off to the highest bidder. At the school, the teens and their classmates were given expired food which was donated by a local supermarket and were never paid any of the personal stipends they were promised when they agreed to come to Virginia from Jamaica. Additionally, they were charged monthly fees for insurance that had never been disclosed on the contracts they originally signed in their homeland.

In short, the athletes in question claim they were abused -- physically, mentally and emotionally -- and left to find their own way. Incredibly, while only one of the four Jamaican natives was allowed to graduate from the school, two eventually made their way into American colleges via basketball. One is still at an American institution, while the other was forced to return to Richmond when Southside Baptist officials backed off a promise to aid him financially during his first semester of college. The other two teens are desperately searching for a place to play basketball and learn.

This is their story, as told to Prep Rally.

"THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT WE WERE DEPENDENT"

Christopher Villiers was a member of the original crew of Jamaican recruits to attend Southside Baptist. Now 18, Villiers came to the states before his freshman year, an impressionable 14-year-old hoping to make his mark at a new school and get the attention he'd need to earn himself a college scholarship.

At first, everything was progressing as Villiers expected; he was learning in small classes -- the school has only 145 students and an average teacher-to-student ratio of 1:8 -- and he was improving on the basketball court, particularly during practices with his older Jamaican teammates, Omarie Williams and Melvin Robinson.

Then, months after he'd arrived, things started to take a troubling turn.

"I don't mind the hard work, but they took advantage of the fact that we were dependent on them," Villiers said in an interview with ScoutsFocus founder Joe Davis, who originally introduced Villiers to Prep Rally. "During the school year after classes instead of basketball practice we would go to the thrift store and work late into the night. During the summer we worked from 7 a.m.- midnight.

"They did things that benefited them like lying on paperwork to get a driver's license for one of the guys also on scholarship so he could drive the truck for them.  They took our phones so we couldn't communicate to our parents to voice our complaints.  When we did get our phones for a day they had already read our messages violating our privacy because they 'owned us.'"

In fact, that last aspect was taken quite literally during Villiers' final year at the school during the 2011-12 school year. On one occasion, the teen said he was sent to do random yard work and chores for a fee of $55, which was paid to the school, not Villiers.

Jason Smith's experience at the Southside Thrift Store was equally disturbing.

"We would work at the thrift store from maybe 7 or 8 in the morning until really, really late. We were breaking down walls just to make it functional. If you were at school and got in trouble you would get sent to the thrift store. You would get detention just for walking across the street to another room, and then you would get sent to work in the thrift store.

"When we first started, they said they were going to pay us. Maybe would get $100 every couple of weeks, and they claimed I would get less because of the money I owed. But a few weeks later they made something up about us not wanting to work, so we stopped getting paid. We only got paid like two times."

Omarie Williams was worked equally hard, even after he had already left the school and come back to marry one of the church's parishioners. According to Richmond area basketball skills coach Kent Greenway, the church was having Williams work more than 70 hours a week for only $300 in monthly salary.

"They're working Omarie like 70 hours a week for $300 a month. We used to laugh about it being slave labor, and then he started taking it seriously and he asked if I could help go back to school. He decided it was better to go back to school and get a degree.

"I sent Omarie down to Florida to play for Gulf Coast, and the coach was going to give him a scholarship and the whole deal. When he came back to Richmond and they found out that he was going to play basketball, the church went AWOL. They even tried to break he and his pregnant wife up."

While it may seem shocking that Villiers, Smith and their classmates didn't come forward before, there were valid reasons for that. Predominant among them was a lack of ability to communicate with the outside world because the teens' host parents or instructors would nearly constantly claim their mobile phones. Sometimes using grounds of illicit content on the phone (Hip Hop music was referenced by more than one student Prep Rally spoke to) and sometimes for sending text messages to girls. When they were allowed to call, the Jamaican students claim they were often limited in terms of the amount of times they were allowed to call their parents.

That possessed phone was particularly costly for Smith, as it kept him from taking a trip to California during a school break to meet one of his siblings for the first time. After hearing that he would have a scheduled school break in the fall, Smith's sister arranged and organized a trip for him to visit her. Then, shortly before the break, Smith became involved in an intimate relationship with a female classmate, a decision that other members of the church disapproved of. Shortly thereafter Smith was put "on lockdown," barred from leaving the campus. He was not allowed to visit California, despite the fact that the rest of the school was away and his sister had paid nearly $1,000 for his plane fare.

Making matters worse, Smith's phone was taken away from him, and he wasn't allowed to warn his sister that he couldn't come. Smith claims that failed visit continues to damage his relationship with his sister to this day, in part because she couldn't believe that any school would take away his phone for such a minor issue.

"She's still mad at me because of that," Smith said.

"THEY LINED US UP AND WHIPPED US"

While the conditions that surrounded the Southside players' lives off the court may have been troubling, their performance on the court was impressive. All four of the teens profiled here by Prep Rally received interest from colleges, with two landing scholarship offers. Those offers came in part because of their success at Southside Baptist.

Yet the teens were also forced to endure troubling circumstances while playing for the team, including one horrific incident when the gymnasium doors were locked and the teens were lined up and flailed with a large whip, which Villiers compared to the size of a cricket bat. Four different teenagers independently confirmed that the incident occurred after a game, and all said they were scarred by the abuse — which occurred after a player was flatulent on the team bus after a game -- but had attempted to put it in their past.

Only Williams was not whipped during that run-in because he refused to be. Instead, he was meted out punishment by being restrained from team activities and being forced to do more chores related to the team.

"My mom never hit me," Villiers said. "I was the last one to be whipped. … I didn't come here for this. I came here to go to school, play basketball and be respectful."

While confirming that he was whipped, Robinson said he desperately tries to put the incident out of his mind, but said "I took mine."

On another occasion, the teenagers were witness to a violent attack by one of the team's coaches on a player. Again according to multiple sources, Southside head boy's basketball coach Reginald Stinson threw a ball at the head of another of the school's foreign players, a player from Europe who requested his name not be used, when he repeatedly failed to execute a drill. The player who was struck with the ball instinctively ran at the coach but stopped short of attacking him. That's when Stinson allegedly jumped on top of the student and began beating and choking him. It was only after the attacked player's teammates intervened that Stinson was pulled away, all while he and his brother, assistant basketball coach Trenton Stinson, yelled at the players to never challenge the coaches' authority.

Unsurprisingly, the player in question left the school shortly thereafter for another school in Chicago.

Prep Rally tried to reach both of the Stinson brothers through the school, but that message has not been returned.

Earlier in July, Prep Rally brought you the touching story of 10-year-old Kyle Lograsso, a cancer survivor who masterminded a bizarre 100-hole golf marathon as a fundraiser for retinoblastoma, the cancer which cost him his left eye. When it came time to deliver on his rather optimistic golfing goal, Lograsso accomplished the feat and then some, golfing a total of 109 holes after teeing off for the first time at 6 a.m.

Even more impressively, by doing so Lograsso smashed his own fundraising expectations, earning a whopping $75,000 for retinoblastoma research.

As noted by the Riverside Press-Enterprise and NBC's Off the Bench, among other sites, Lograsso's fundraising total was swelled by $10,000 thanks to a late donation by PGA Tour golfer J.B. Holmes, who was so touched by the Temecula (Calif.) Prep fifth-grader's drive that he donated 10 grand after the fundraiser was already completed.

10-year-old charity golfer Kyle Lograsso — KyleLograsso.org

In total, Lograsso played more than 12 hours of golf. He played more than 50 holes barefoot after his feet became sore wearing his golf spikes. And while Lograsso didn't use any shortcuts to racking up the 100-hole total he was aiming for, he did get a lift from the use of a golf cart.

Yet, for one hole, Lograsso turned down even that aid, walking the final straightaway as a statement about his commitment to the fight against retinoblastoma.

"I walked the last hole, I walked it for the fight against Retinoblastoma and all the kids going through it," Lograsso told the Press-Enterprise.

"I accomplished a pretty big goal. One hundred and nine holes is a lot. It felt good -- once I finished the hole. Now, no golf for another week or two. I've had enough."