Was Mr. Tippett who warned, “You have a house to clean, you better clean it,” ignored?
The parent of a former member of the Yavapai Community College baseball team, Jeff Tippett, sounded the alarm about illegal drug usage on the baseball team in a speech he gave at the May 2018 Governing Board meeting.
He described his son’s experience on the baseball team as “disgusting.” Tippett claimed the College had recruited an athlete who endangered the safety of the students and the public. He said that the same athlete became involved in “heavy drug usage.” The student athlete was not identified. He also said that he and his wife videotaped two players warming up in the “bullpen” who were “smoking something.”
Tippett said that “to this day we have not been contacted by the school at all” despite expressing his concern about drug usage. He noted that because of his videotaping, his son was “being bullied.” He concluded his speech to the Governing Board saying that “you have a house to clean, better clean it.”
Mr. Tippett’s speech to the Governing Board follows below.