Maybe Mr. Finn took the keys because a school reported that the men's basketball program at West was breaking NCHSAA rules and this had to be investigated, not because a "firing" was planned. And by the way, the AD that got moved to another school years before, tried to work with Coach Cross, he just did not want to go by the rules of the program then, either. She paid the cost for him that time, just as Mr. Finn seems to be now.