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What will Olney do?
May 26, 2009With Damon Rodgers heading to Midland Lee to become the OL coach out there, Olney now has to look for a new head coach/AD.
What will Olney do?
I think they have two choices.
They can either hire from within and choose DC Cody Slater, who was a finalist for Seymour and was interviewed for Petrolia, too.
Or they can try to find some diamond in the rough like Seymour did last year with Josh Castles and try to shake things up.
At this stage in the game, there aren't a lot of openings, and some coaches are locked into contracts for next year. They might as well open it up for any applicant and see what they get.
Slater could also become the football coach without being the AD. J.D. Sullivan is the boys hoops coach out there, and he has enough tenure at Olney to be named the AD if they wanted to go that route.
And Olney isn't a bad job, either. The Cubs could (and probably will) drop down to Class A after next year's realignment. This will do wonders for many pretty good programs already (both basketballs, golf, baseball). And football fits in that boat.
Think of it this way. Olney as a 2A was more competitive than Seymour was as a 2A. Since Seymour dropped down 3 years ago, it has: played in a football state title game, made the state playoffs in baseball and softball, and been pretty good in girls track.
Olney should be a playoff football team every year at the Class A level. And with QB Callen Pittman and several starters coming back from last year's team that improved as the season went along, they should be a playoff threat next year as well.
So Rodgers' replacement should have high expectations, whoever that will be.
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