Austin Metcalf’s Dad Attacks

Austin Metcalf’s Dad Attacks Ex-Superintendent

A Texas father is not staying silent. More than a year after watching his teenage son get buried following a stabbing at a high school track meet, Jeff Metcalf is taking his fight directly to the doorstep of the man who ran the school district — and he is not holding back.

Austin Metcalf, 17, was fatally stabbed by classmate Karmelo Anthony during a track meet in April 2025. 

A jury later convicted Anthony of murder, and a judge sentenced him to 35 years behind bars. The verdict was widely covered. What came after it has been just as explosive.

Within days of the sentence being handed down, Jeff Metcalf went public with a torrent of criticism aimed squarely at Frisco Independent School District and its former superintendent, Mike Waldrip — a man Metcalf holds responsible for a string of institutional failures that he says began the moment his son’s blood hit the ground.

Metcalf told Fox News Digital that Waldrip and the district botched the handling of his son’s murder, fumbled the aftermath, and made a decision that still infuriates him to this day: they let Anthony graduate.

Anthony supporters had pressured Frisco ISD to allow him to receive his diploma even as he faced a murder charge. 

According to Metcalf, Waldrip did not resist that pressure. He said the former superintendent “folded like a cheap tent under pressure.”

On a recent episode of the Rumble podcast “JinxedSip,” Metcalf stripped away any remaining diplomatic language. TMZ reported that he described Waldrip as “the most spineless, coward piece of —- I’ve ever met in my entire life.”

The graduation decision sits at the core of Metcalf’s fury. He told Fox News Digital that Anthony walked away from school entirely after April 2 — the day of the stabbing — and never set foot back in a classroom. In Metcalf’s view, that absence alone should have triggered consequences.

“He didn’t go back to school after April 2. He might have had the credit, he might have had the grades, but you still have the ability to deny the diploma,” Metcalf told Fox News Digital.

He pushed the argument further, telling Fox News Digital the district’s own rulebook should have settled the matter. TMZ reported that Metcalf pointed to language in the school handbook that he says lists murder as grounds for mandatory expulsion — meaning the district had a written policy it chose not to enforce.

Anthony received his diploma anyway. He was convicted of murder more than a year after the stabbing.

Metcalf’s grievances against Frisco ISD do not begin and end with the graduation. He also directed blame at the district for the conditions at the track meet itself, arguing that basic security measures were absent on the day his son was killed.

“They didn’t have metal detectors that the athletes went through, they didn’t have proper security. I mean, I can go on and on. They were negligent in this,” he told Fox News Digital.

Those words — negligent — carry weight. They suggest Metcalf’s public campaign may not stop at interviews and podcasts.

Waldrip served as superintendent of Frisco ISD throughout the period in question. The district announced his retirement in November 2025, roughly six months after Austin Metcalf was killed. He has not publicly addressed the father’s latest remarks.

Metcalf has made clear that the conviction and sentencing of Karmelo Anthony has not closed the wound. For him, accountability does not end with the man holding the knife.

The father of a murdered boy is still looking for answers — and he is making sure the people he holds responsible know exactly where he stands.

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