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Post by jdelisa on Jul 6, 2011 11:56:45 GMT -5
from 7/5/11 Board of Ed agenda (was approved):
k. Appointment to Coaching Activity
An individual is being recommended to a coaching assignment for the 2011-12 school year.
RECOMMENDED MOTION:
“that the following appointment for the 2011-12 school year be approved:
Sport: Varsity Football
Coach: Thomas Casey
Stipend: $8,308.25
anyone know if/who comprised the selection committee or if KSachs was allowed to apply? didn't see any public requests for community members to join selection committee as outlined in last BoE meeting......
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Post by lilly on Jul 6, 2011 14:53:52 GMT -5
I guess the "public" requests were done in the same manner used for the last 3 special ed PPS Director hires, lololol. No one quite sure who was on those committees either but we were "assured" there were [phantom] parents on them... I had expressed interest in being on 1 or 2 of them and of course was met with the typical non-answer/wall of silence so who knows if/who was on them. (And after two fiasco PPS Director hires, we finally have a decent/good one.)
If you google Tom Casey (which I'm sure you have), his father was a lifelong HS sports coach and he has a pretty long (good?) varsity record himself (Levittown and Garden City). I spoke to Dan Butler after the BOE meeting and he said the man was checked out 50 ways to nothing and had consistent, very good recommendations so it seemed like a promising hire. I hope it is. I didn't ask about hiring committee and as you know, sports isn't my forte. But sounded like a decent candidate...
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Jul 6, 2011 15:08:00 GMT -5
The Latin phrase, Res Ipsa Loquitor, is appropriate here. Things speaks for themselves: a new varsity football coach has now been appointed. Bottom line. End of story.
Chris Wendt
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Post by jdelisa on Jul 7, 2011 0:19:17 GMT -5
Chris -
it's ironic that you used the literal translation given that res ipsa loquitur is very much alive today, in negligence law. it assumes that a victims's injury was caused by the actions of another party because the injury was the kind that would not have happened unless someone was negligent. kinda seems to fit in this whole situation, beginning to end.
end of story? looking more like "it ain't over 'til it's over"
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Post by Chris_Wendt on Jul 7, 2011 5:43:54 GMT -5
John, I believe that school sports are all about the kids, the athletes they will become, and the fun and satisfaction of learning, developing, and honing skills and strategies for winning, and the lessons learned from their defeats along the way.
I did not and do not believe that public high school sports are or should ever be all about a coach...any coach.
I truly hope that even Mr. Sachs can agree with me on this point.
I would like to think that you would also agree, and consider that the matter is settled with the appointment of our new Varsity Football Coach, or that it really needs to be if it is not already resolved in anyone's thinking.
Mac Arthur's quotation is brought to mind: "On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory." For Warrior football, the strife belongs back out on the gridiron, not in the auditorium or the board room.
Respectfully,
Chris Wendt
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