A Lake Brantley graduate and former NFL running back, Brown said he hit rock bottom last September after losing his job as head football coach at West Orange High School.
That’s when, in a span of seven days, Orange County Public Schools placed him on “relief of duty” with pay for allowing “unauthorized individuals to act as assistant coaches” and then fired him for failing to report a subsequent arrest for possession of an unlicensed firearm.
“I felt my entire world crumble,” said Brown, 42, during one of several interviews with the Orlando Sentinel.
“I had never been in that place mentally.