[1][6] In 1969 the trend accelerated when the Supreme Court issued a ruling ordering Holmes county public schools to desegregate immediately.

In 1969, in the case Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled that since, in the court's opinion, EHA would refuse to admit qualified black students, the tuition grant program violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

[8][7] The Internal Revenue Service revoked EHA's tax exempt status in 1970 after the IRS concluded that the school had failed to adopt racially non-discriminatory admissions policies.

The Jackson Academy athletic director, Bobby West was reported to have told Collins' colleague Lee Adams that "Glen was not welcome up there [at East Holmes] because he was black.

"[12] Collins told the AP that after the incident, he made excuses not to broadcast other games at all white private academies.

[18][19] In a 1990 retrospective interview, EHA board member Joe McClellan acknowledged that race was the motivation for the offer to forfeit.

"[4] One of the board members who left, Frank Janous, told the Clarion-Ledger "I just felt a bad decision was being made, and I didn't want to be part of it.

"[21] EHA ultimately reconsidered its decision to forfeit and visited Heritage Academy to play the game on October 20, 1989.

[21] One parent who withdrew his son told The Clarion-Ledger that, as a result of the incident, he was no longer willing "to support the school with our kids and our money".

[21] The Clarion-Ledger also reported that faculty and staff at EHA who opposed the board's decision were forced to leave their positions.