Hiring a New England Patriots Super Bowl champion as the head coach of the Brockton High School football team raised the eyebrows of a law firm charged with investigating an $18 million budget shortfall in the city’s public schools.

Former Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins was mentioned in an investigative report detailing Brockton Schools’ $18 million budget deficit.

The report found a culture of "incompetence, territorial boundaries, and woefully inadequate checks and balances," in the school district's budgeting process. The report said there was little to no oversight of the district's budget, which was created by Thomas.

Patriots champion Jermaine Wiggins says he wanted to keep coaching football at Brockton High School, earning just over $15,000 in role, but teachers allegedly didn’t like how he was not a