Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Two area football coaches resign

Waynesburg High School and Bentworth will begin searches for new head football coaches following the resignations of Joe Kuhns and Lou Rood.

Kuhns confirmed Wednesday via email that he resigned as the football coach at Waynesburg following a 3-6 season. The Raiders remaining in WPIAL Class AA playoff contention until a loss at Mt. Pleasant in Week 8 of the regular season.

Rood adopted the task of rebuilding Bentworth football. The Bearcats struggled but broke a 20-game losing streak with a win against Avella Friday night.

Check Thursday's Observer-Reporter for more details.

* In other coaching news, Peters Township athletic director Brian Geyer said the district plans to hire a softball coach at its November meeting.

10 comments:

TBM said...

Hate to see Coach Kuhns go. He was an unbelievable influence on my son. Good man.

Anonymous said...

Im sorry but have to disagree with TBM. Coach Kuhns was not a motivator of these student athletes. The seniors were asked to vote if they wanted to play a tenth game and they voted against it. They had enough of this coach's demoralizing and blame it on someone else style of coaching. Waynesburg had the talent to make the playoffs this year and did not make it because of coaching. They were not good enough to win the Interstate Conference but should have finished fourth in the conference. Coach Kuhns cost the team the East Allegheny game with his poor play calling in the fourth quarter. Then the debacle on senior night where we lose to an 0-8 team. What kind of coach does not have his boys ready to play on senior night? This along with the fact that last year Waynesburg was blown out by Chartiers Houston, a team that didnt make the playoffs in class "A" during the tenth week of the season was reason enough for concern. I have nothing against Coach Kuhns but he was obviously not ready to coach at this level and should have remained at class "A" California. Hopefully Waynesburg can find a candidate who can restore this fine schools football tradition.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Waynesburg will finally get a coach that knows when to kick an extra point and field goal. He cost this team two losses and a lost playoff berth.

TBM said...

Lets see if you are within an extra point and field goal of the play-offs without him. Typical Waynesburg moron taking an anonymous approach to bash a coach. Probably the father of a son that wasn't good enough to be on the field.

Alum said...

Decisions don't win games, Execution wins games. Waynesburg doesn't have football players...period. The man went to the play-offs every year at California, none at Waynesburg....Is he the problem?? How many coaches can you people blame?

mike_kovak said...

Fine football tradition at Waynesburg?

Please explain.

seniorraider said...

I can't think of one time that coach blamed loses on anyone. He truly wanted us to succeed. The seniors voted on a tenth game and the only ones that voted against it were the ones who sat the bench. Coach said it had to be a unanymous vote to play.

coach said...

waynesburg football is still living in 1999. Those young men were outstanding football players. they had talent,hard work and wanted to be coached. Since then you have players coming through the system that will work hard. they cannot even come close to 1999. let the coaches coach and the players play. Parents quit living your dreams through your kids!!

TBM said...

How can you disagree with me thinking he had an good lnfluence on my son? It is not hard to guess who anonymous is the parent of. Too slow and too lazy to play QB ring any bells?

Trojan said...

The "A" Trojans, Bulldogs, Greyhounds are just a few of the many lowly small school teams that have better ATHLETES than Waynesburg does. Since when is AA football the "next level"? Talent? Who is the "Talent" on Waynesburg football team?