WPA powerhouse HS team just fired their coach
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I agree. The only thing that could persuade him to return is the fact that Pine-Richland has become an athletics powerhouse and now is at the same level as a North Allegheny. This school has a current NFL qb and a qb at BC who is a bigtime talent. Thus, unlike a lot of WPIAL schools, even the blue bloods, this school district has a lot of good athletes in it.
Thanks for your insight. I'll let my wife know this when she gets home. When she attends the school board meeting Monday night that is a member of, maybe she can share that with the rest of the board.
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"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain
There is a simple fallacy that should be put to rest.
You can't criticize X unless you've done X.
That is preposterous and if the world wasn't full of such dullards, it wouldn't need explanation.
But, it is what it is, so here goes.
Some matters, in any field, are pure math and logic. You can gauge SOME aspects of a football coach just by watching his ability to manage the clock. A person with even a rudimentary background in statistics can tell whether the timeout should be called now, or preserved. Smart coaches get it right. Stupid coaches get it wrong.
And people who have never played a down in their lives can tell which is which. Can't believe we have to argue about this.
I don't have to be on a school board to criticize them and to be more likely to be correct than I am to be wrong.
You can't criticize X unless you've done X.
That is preposterous and if the world wasn't full of such dullards, it wouldn't need explanation.
But, it is what it is, so here goes.
Some matters, in any field, are pure math and logic. You can gauge SOME aspects of a football coach just by watching his ability to manage the clock. A person with even a rudimentary background in statistics can tell whether the timeout should be called now, or preserved. Smart coaches get it right. Stupid coaches get it wrong.
And people who have never played a down in their lives can tell which is which. Can't believe we have to argue about this.
I don't have to be on a school board to criticize them and to be more likely to be correct than I am to be wrong.
Watch out you might get called a MORON (in all caps for extra emphasis)
Something similar happened at Conestoga High School some years ago. A significant factor in the school board's decision to terminate the coaching staff was a completely unfounded allegation of real depravity brought by a lying father and his deviant son. It cost a damn good man, John Vogan, his HC gig both on the baseball and football teams. Then they found evidence of old time hazing and used that against the entire staff. It was a crock of ________. John graduated from CHS and loved his role as coach and mentor to kids. Sorry. I felt the need to get that off my chest in a public forum.
Gentlemen, let's remember the 11th Commandment - "Thou shalt not criticize thine coach of football, lest ye hath coacheth thineself (but feeleth free, at all times, to criticize anyone and everyone else, at thine own discretion)"
People who "rage on social media" probably are looking for something to rage about anyway.
He upset someone in power. Never think you are secure. He might have upset a powerful parent.
Don't let the fact that 85% of the people who cared enough to show up for the public comment portion of the board meeting supported getting rid of the Indian logo get in the way of your false statement!
Now the names are coming out.
www.post-gazette.com
Why some close to Pine-Richland program feel Eric Kasperowicz was victim of ‘witch hunt’
A group of Pine-Richland High School football coaches say they felt district administrators wanted to see head coach Eric Kasperowicz removed from his...
www.post-gazette.com
Funny how boards set things up to make it look like they have overwhelming support. Bellefonte had native american groups give support to keep the logo. But the board ignored them and just trotted a bunch of whiney wokes up there for good theater.
6-2 Stack Monster....Lea Thompson naked!!!! Be right back!!!Maybe a player fought back?
Is John Surma on that board????? Or Corbutt????
With the Penn State pennant on the wall, this could very well be the best scene in the history of cinema.
It would be interesting to know what the details look like. Admittedly I've been away from Pa. for about 48 years....but here in NY coaching positions are 1 year contracts. There is therefor no "tenure" in coaching. During my time as an AD I had one coach, a pretty successful basketball coach, that the board voted not to reappoint, even though I recommended him. It caused quite a controversy, and he was eventually retained. When I wanted to make a change, I simply told the coach that I did not plan to recommend him(or her). Generally speaking if you are making a change, it's best to have your "ducks" in a line. I always made sure that the administration and the board of education knew of my intent and agreed.
It's seems hard to believe there isn't something more behind this than envy.
A few years ago (several years after I retired) my former district refused to reappoint a highly successful HFC (actually a former player of mine). He had a history of exercising poor judgement (profanity and parent conflict) and when they finally parted ways with him, it wasn't a major incident....just a "final straw."
I initially wondered about the legal ramifications of this situation - but now, it seems like the negative PR of this whole thing is going to crush whatever the school board is looking for here.
Heard a bit more about this from PGH folk this weekend - Kasperowicz and the school board got into it back in the summer when discussing the season/covid. Kasperowicz was heavily in favor of playing for the kids, while at times the school board was leaning towards canceling or shortening the season. I think it got a bit uglier than I could explain in my last sentence, but you get my point.
This has been a repetitive action by school boards across the state of PA. When the football coach becomes too powerful/popular, the admins start messing with them so they quit/retire or just get fired. I believe this is one of the reasons Pettine retired from CB West. Wasn't George Curry fired/removed by the board at Berwick?
Not quite the same situation at Berwick, but the same level of foolishness. The issue at Berwick was a group of leaders of a booster club that had once been close with George but had a parting of the ways. They didn't like that Curry was running camps and coaching clinics and thought his best coaching days were behind him. It was small town pettiness at its worst. Curry got sick of it and moved on to WVW. Berwick then learned that just anyone can't coach its boys to state championships. For most of his career, George ran the show and nobody who mattered minded.
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Agree with this regarding Mike Pettine and the Central Bucks administration. Probably a reason why Mike Carey took over in 2000 and left after only one season as head coach. He went to North Penn as an assistant and won another state title in 2003, not to mention a bunch more at Archbishop Wood.
I don't think the school board is to blame here as some on this thread are indicating. It was the superintendent. I get the impression that he is an academic who resents the success and prominence of the football program, but I could be wrong. Maybe, it's a personal dislike. Either way, the reason for the firing is total BS.
Joel Sansone - Marty Griffin
Attorney Joel Sansone, who's representing the kid who's been receiving threats and being accused of being the one to expose the hazing incidents, joins the show. Sansone says all of these threats have really hurt his mental health.
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Whild I fully support the Gateway rep doing as he wishes on his own time and with his own personal accounts, I do not think it is correct if he sent these notices out from a school district account, or even on school district time.
He was not privy to all the information and should not involve one school district’s business in another’s.
For those that may have an interest, the letter provided by PR is included in the article.
Former Pine-Richland football coach Eric Kasperowicz releases letter he received from school district
Letter details reasons why district did not renew his coaching contract
www.wtae.com
The only legs left to this story are 1) does Coach K win his defamation lawsuit [and if so how much do-re-mi does he get] and 2) does the PR school board turn over enough in November to be able to oust the newly hired guy and try to bring back Coach K. Otherwise, meh.
Terminated Pine-Richland football coach hopeful to interview for same job this week after dropping lawsuit
GIBSONIA, Pa. —
Eric Kasperowicz's attorney said they are hopeful that the terminated Pine-Richland High School football coach will have an opportunity to interview with the school district for the same job that was taken away from him last year.
Kasperowicz is represented by Joel Sansone, who announced last week that the coach would drop his wrongful termination lawsuit, hoping that would present an opportunity to be considered for as the next coach.
The Pine-Richland School Board voted to terminate Kasperowicz's contract after allegations of hazing practices under his watch, which the coach denied.
Some residents have followed the highly publicized process unfold last year.
"I think it's good that he's dropping the lawsuit and trying for his job again. I think he deserves it," Cassandra Siefert said.
Scott Franz has remained neutral with his opinions and has not taken sides.
"I'm kind of glad the lawsuit has been dropped and hopefully we can move on and worry about bigger problems," Franz said.
Nothing is guaranteed but Sansone said he is hopeful the school district extends an invitation to interview for the job this week.
This kind of stuff happens way too much. Where I grew up back in WPA, we had 3 women who were on the school board and formed their own little gang. They only voted for things that were good for their kids, noone else. The oldest of those three had a son who played football and just football, she liked the coach and made sure she got her friends to vote for anything related to making football better and nothing for the other sports, nothing for teacher raises or other coach raises, just the FB coaches. After her son graduated she immediately turns course. Her friends have younger kids who do not play FB but like soccer and we do not have a school soccer team so the three of them then propose to drop football entirely and instead have a soccer team.... Thankfully it lost 6-3, but they tried to do it every year until those other womens kids got out of HS.
Like I said way too much of this type of thing going on with school boards.
What if the information contained in the termination letter is true? If he refused to supervise the locker room, allowed hazing, failed to monitor coaches violating PIAA rules and was covering up fights? Do you still think he should be rehired just because he wins?
I don’t pretend to know all of the facts and or circumstances in this situation but I do know that the Superintendent is a man of courage and principle. I doubt that he would have supported firing this coach if there was not solid justification.
I can always make statements like "allowed hazing" - what does that mean? It can be true in all situations because I can simply say "I'm offended" no matter what you said.
What does "covering up fights" mean? Does that mean he was attending the fight and saw it happen, or does it mean that he heard about it, but didn't communicate it up?
Failed to monitor coaches violating PIAA rules - hahahahaha - in other words, someone might have violated a rule and the head coach didn't catch it.
I know a bullshit legal letter when I see it.
I am on the side of the coach because the people against the coach are so obviously weasels.
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