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As a proud Class of 81 graduate, our men's b-ball team finished 2nd in Class A that year, it's certainly a sad end to an ugly affair. My question now would be are we going to get the next hire right because Barker Part 2 was a disaster. Here's hoping that the administration administrates and leave the coaching to the coaches.
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Sad story. Unfortunately, this is what happens when political correctness is forced on people.
Have there been any new developments with the player walkout at Henry high school?Comment
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followup to this sad story that was all provoked by the Dunlap Superintendant and others micromanaging and bullying their basketball coach...
-the coach in question, Jeff Barker, resigned on March 7
-Dunlap then, a little over a month later, hired away the Limestone assistant basketball coach Tony Thomason
-I cannot find any reports of Thomason's former position at Limestone being filled yet, but their head coach is past Bradley Braves' star Eddie Mathews
-some people's requests went unheeded
-the author of the original story in PJS that played "the race card" and implied the entire issue was due to racism in Dunlap - has yet to write anything further after it was revealed that many of the major players in this mess including the player and the person meddling to bully the coach on personnel & playing time decisions were all Black....thus pretty much by consensus there was no racism here as Pam Adam instantly alleged.
-there also has been no followup as to where Jeff Barker wentComment
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I hope the Dunlap people ( or anyone else for that matter) do not allow this to die. To let it die allows it to happen again. No one should be allowed to exert their authority in areas that do not concern them.Comment
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Dunlap is 4-26 this season...go figureComment
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Dunlap's Athletic Director suddenly steps down in the middle of the school term, go figureOriginally posted by tornado View Post
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Originally posted by tornado View Postnot sure if this meddling and interference story is over because now, the Dunlap School Superintendant is terminated and...nobody knows why...Originally posted by tornado View Post
"No one would explain why."
"It makes no sense.."
"I don??™t understand why this is going on"
..well, they voted for the people on the board who made this decision.....
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The timing seems odd though. It makes me think there was something else going on. There were probably a lot of things that happened that we don't know about. I highly doubt this is JUST about the basketball issue.Originally posted by tornado View PostI can do all things through pasta, which strengthens me.Comment
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well, it wouldn't be hard for even a newbie reporter to actually get the story....
seems just about everyone in Dunlap wanted to talk about it...
but oddly, the only story we've seen yet is written by Pam Adams who instantly blew into a rage that this was all a terrible racist issue - when obviously it doesn't have a thing to do with race!
Anyway - she will be paid thru December then "she will get a more than $80,000 severance package".
Maybe we all went into the wrong line of work - nobody has ever offered me $80,000 to NOT WORK.Comment
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Originally posted by tornado View Post
According to the article she will work thru Dec. 31 and paid through end of the school year...so May of 18. Her contract was though the end of the 2020 school year.....so obviously they settled on this. I'm not sure what happened(and don't want to speculate) but obviously the board was not in full agreement. I talked to a board chairman of a nearby school and they thought it was a little unusual for something like this to happen on a 4-3 voteComment
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Originally posted by FlyingSpaghettiMonster View Post
I missed this before posting, but I agree with youComment
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From what I heard, there are some personal issues at play...but then haven't we seen that a lot with school board issues before?Comment
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Yet another top administrator is leaving Dunlap...more fallout?? -- LINK
Nobody seems to want to say anything. I don't know how these top dogs' contracts read in school districts, but I would bet just like the corporate world, they all contain gag clauses (confidentiality agreements) that prevent departing personnel who are leaving from speaking publicly - at the risk of losing their buyouts/severance.Comment
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Princeton High School seems to have a similar problem - their basketball coach was not retained..
and it sounds like he had to coach while constantly being undermined and "micromanaged" by administrative personnel and "higher-ups"
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If I remember right when Mike Ditka took over the Bears who had been having several years of dismal performance told McCaskey ( who I thought was micro managing) " If you want me to coach then you let me coach. You let me make the draft picks. You stay out of it". Couple years later Bears won the Super BowlComment
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