Manual coach Cedric Lloyd will become co-head coach at Broad Ripple, with
current coach Bob Ashworth. Three assistant coaching positions will
also move from Manual to Broad Ripple.
Washington coach Henry Jordan will be a co-head coach at Northwest, with current coach Aaron Sauter. Three assistant coaching positions will move from Washington to Northwest. Marshall, which would have become a varsity program next year, will have four coaches join Arlington's staff. The seventh and eighth grade programs at Marshall and Washington will continue.
"I knew going into this year that we had to see some return on our investment and that didn't happen," White said. "We're not going to entertain excuses anymore."
The remaining six assistant coaching positions will go to Tech (four) and Howe (two).
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Friday Night Lights Out
IPS is cutting football at three high schools; Manual, Washington and Marshall. The kids will lose sports but some folks will still keep their jobs.
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Just wait until it all comes out! Teachers and building administrators all had to reapply and interview for their jobs in the past year only to hear that MANY of them did not have jobs due to budget cuts. I find it very interesting that they are "closing" three programs but not losing any football positions. If I were a teacher I would be so past mad! I cannot wait to see what the blog has to say about the new Tech coach - p.s. already decided!
ReplyDeleteIf IPS graduates 87% of their football players is that not reason enough to keep those programs open. What does that say about winning versus student athlete? Sounds like a great academic program to me - 87% graduation rate.
You can read the entire article on the sports page of the indystar. I am including part of the article which has been on White's agenda for awhile.
ReplyDeleteWhite said last year a long-range goal is for Tech, now with 2,300 students, to join the prestigious Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference. He reaffirmed that Tuesday, though he concedes it might be a few years off.
"Tech has to become attractive to the MIC first," he said.
White said he will announce the hiring of a new football coach at Tech in the next three weeks. The Titans were 4-6 last season under Jonas Williams.
If Dr. White wants ANY of the sports programs to get better, he needs to get MUCH better coaches in place! You can see the difference between IPS coaches and other programs just by going to a couple of practices! Cutting programs, hiring/replacing coaches, moving staff around is NOT going to do it! IPS coaches need to be trained, and there are several places to get that done. Then, and only then, will his "feeder system" begin to work - if the coaches don't know what they're doing, then the athletes won't either. TRAIN THE COACHES OR HIRE PROVEN COACHES (more money) BUT QUIT TRYING TO FIX IT ANY OTHER WAY - IT WON'T WORK!
ReplyDeleteIPS has hired proven coaches before. Bozwell (? spelling) from Ritter came to Washington and only lasted one season. He was a proven coach - the team he left at Ritter won state that year and he has many wins outside of IPS.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like White is trying to make Tech a sports factory. I hope he is more successful at that than he is with improving campus conditions and academics there. He is paying a prinicpal over $100,000 a year who is unable to enforce the dress code, unable to provide a safe and secure enviroment for staff and students and can't even get the halls cleared in Treadwell Hall while classes are in session. Sometimes there are more students loitering in the halls than in the classroom. However, she is in the process of having more shrubbery planted near the main entrance. She has her priorities.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Coach Boswell to cause his leaving after only one year at Washington?
ReplyDeleteThis move is about wins/losses and Dr. White being able to talk to other Superintendents who he feels run elite schools on the same level.
ReplyDeleteThis is about trophy cases and him saying he got a IPS team into the MIC.
At the expense of how many student athletes? Programs?
There is more to sports than winning and loosing. The kids you are harming today are the ones who are doing what is right attending schools. Juniors have played there last down under this proposal. IHSAA does not allow transfers for athletic reasons. These kids will be doing just that.
No tax payer money is being saved. The article states that. They money is just transfered.
This is a sad day for IPS athletics.
This is all about the short sightedness of Dr. White. Not truly understanding the benifits and learning going on in athletics.
There is NO job posting for Head Football Coach at Tech. If Dr. White wants a talented, winning coach, then he should be posting the position. Surely, he won't hire from within the system. It's time for some fresh ideas and fresh faces.
ReplyDeleteBoswell was there for 2 years after being "let go" from Ritter. Never had the personality to recruit and inspire players. He has personal deamons.
ReplyDeletecoaches and players found out from the newspaper, not from White or administrators. not very kid friendly
ReplyDeleteOrganized public school athletics surely played a major and positive role in Dr. White's early years.
ReplyDeleteFrom White's bio posted on the IPS homepage...
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Dr. Eugene G. White was born in Phenix City, AL, to a single 17-year-old mother in December 1947. He was the first person in his family’s history to graduate from high school. He grew up in a time of segregation and Jim Crow practices in Southeast Alabama. In high school, he excelled in football, basketball, and baseball. His mother, grandmother and athletic coaches heavily influenced him. He was a starting member of the 1966 Alabama State Championship Basketball Team and accepted a basketball scholarship to Alabama A&M University. He graduated with academic honors and set career scoring marks at Alabama A&M University.
If Manual will not have a football team next year, then I guess they won't have a marching band either.
ReplyDeleteWhen Dr. White speaks about eliminating football teams because the district is not getting a "return on investment" then he's not thinking clearly. He's eliminating teams, but he's not eliminating the cost (investment) because no football coach positions are being cut. The financial investment remains exactly the same. Yes, he's a calculating man; however, his calculations are way off base with eliminating sports teams.
ReplyDeleteHis legacy looks dim, at this point.
Poor John Marshall. Their Junior Varsity Football Team had a very good year. Who thought they would beat Heritage Christian, Lutheran, Tri-West, Broad Ripple, Howe, and Tech. These young men were looking to play Varsity next year. There unknown coach and his assistants did a remarkable job for a team who had never played together before. Good Luck Marshall players and coaches were ever you end up.
ReplyDeleteUh, quite a bit of money will be saved by cutting three football programs. The coaching salaries are a drop in the bucket of what it costs to run a football program.
ReplyDeleteThe people on this blog are either dumbasses or liars. Or both.
There goes Jane Kendrick again. ...defending Eugene and bad mouthing others...some people never change....give it up, Jane
ReplyDeleteJohn Marshall got a free football field compliments of Home Depot, NFL, and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. There was a Colts player who visited the school the day the field was layed and all the students participated. Dr. White was even at the school that day. Dr. White is making a big a mistake.
ReplyDeleteOther than financial reasons, why would Dr. White want to make such a controversial move? Think, people. It's easy.
ReplyDelete"Think, people. It's easy."
ReplyDeleteOK, I'm thinking but I don't get it. Why did White make this move?
He made the decision because he wants to destroy IPS...that is the only easy idea that I see..........tell us more
ReplyDelete"He wants to destroy IPS". . . .
ReplyDeleteUh oh, someone's been smokin' that crack pipe again. Put it down. Put it down. . . .
If sports help students graduate then they should stay. If they help a student raise his self-esteem then they should stay. If they teach responsibility then they should stay.
ReplyDeleteThe unknown coach at John Marshall name is John Leavell. He is the brother of the legendary Coach Eddie Leavell (deceased). His other brother is Jesse Lynch who is in the Indiana Hall of Fame. I hope he lands a coaching job, because kids in IPS need is tough disciplinary coaching style.
ReplyDeleteJane, please take your diking ass off this blog. Everytime I see your fat ass at Tech, I think about the three schools that closed in Anderson because of your stupidity.
ReplyDeleteIn sports, like everything else, effective changes must be from the ground up. To make real improvements in IPS athletics, you need to first improve the sports programs at the middle school level. Build a good program at each middle school in each sport, boys and girls, so that when these student athletes reach high school they are not trying out for the team for the first time and they have already developed the basic skills.
ReplyDeleteYou can't make these improvements overnight.
How did we find money to hire a man solely for the purpose of being a Coach at BRHS??
ReplyDeleteUsually the made up jobs are created for relatives of Eugene White.......
ReplyDeleteI am wondering the same thing too. The BRHS Coach does nothing in our building, and makes good money doing it.
ReplyDeleteWow, Coach Eddie Leavell, Was he at 112 late 70's through the mid 80's? If so he was my gym coach, him and Ms. Stagmiller (sp?) He had a paddle with holes in it, and he called it Georgie Boy, (if memory serves) I was unlucky enough or stupid enough back then to get two wacks from that paddle. I don't remember what I did to deserve it, probably something stupid... Coach Leavell was a great guy..
ReplyDeleteEddie Leavell was also a #72 around the same time.
ReplyDeleteLegendry? Eddie Leavell was average at best! I coached against him and he was never as good as he thought.
ReplyDeleteYou have lost your mind. Coached Leavell was known nationally in his defense. I'm sure you did'nt win any games against him. That is why you are still bitter. Sorry loser.
ReplyDeleteFYI...The new Tech Coach/AD will be Keith Burke...The proncipal at Washington. Nice way to shut him up and not fight losing the football team don't u think?
ReplyDeleteSuperintendents and coaches are laughing at Eugene White behind his back at his idea that Tech will become a member of the MIC. Not going to happen. Eugeme is the only one who thinks it will.
ReplyDeleteWhy would Tech join the MIC when BRHS won the IPSAC?
ReplyDelete..because Eugene White wants it that way....and whatever Eugene wants, the bobble head school board says YES ....and in unison. I hope during the next school board campaign that someone makes some bobblehead dolls representing the current school board members including the old lady with the big 1960's hairstyle.
ReplyDeleteWhat nation was Leavell in? He was nothing except loud. I agree with the other coach.It seems like someone is still living in his dreamworld of junior high. Most people lose their crush after seventh grade.
ReplyDeleteAll IPS Teams suck outside of IPS. I think he is Tryn to put more talent on a team to be competitive against school's outside IPS plus they are getting a new field soon. But at the end of the day its about money it always has been and still is. If the kids can state it would be good cuz thats money the school wins and he can shut up about money. If you ask me he pocketed awhole lot of money.... Yall never should of put him in and start goin 2 the meetings
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