The Trinity Area School Board has hired Ed Dalton as its new football coach assuming issues such as outstanding grievances can be resolved. Dalton was fired by the same school board in January, at the time ending a 12-year coaching tenure.
For more, read http://www.observer-reporter.com/or/localnews/02-18-2011-trinity-hires-fb-coach.
16 comments:
That is the craziest s*** that I have ever heard. I believe that he is a great coach and probably never deserved to be fired, but I find it absurd that the school board would pull a stunt like this. In my opinion, the institution of local school boards are archaic and need to be disbanded across the state.
Ed Dalton has more lives than a cat.
I don't agree that all boards are bad but Trinity and Peters Twp rank right up there with associations that should be removed, revamped, or reorganized.
It's a complete shame that these elected officials who are there to do good for the school can continually tear it down. What has happened at Trinity for the past 3 years is an absolute joke! I love that the O-R puts the names of these jokers in the paper! They should all be ashamed and embarrassed of themselves for putting the students and Ed Dalton through this crap for 3 years now!
If I were ED Dalton, I'd tell them to go pound salt! I can't even imagine why he would want his job back. Wait so the school board can do rhe same thing next year. At least it gives this lame paper something to write about.
Did get Dalton get re-hired to either make the lawsuit go away or have the grievances negotiated to terms that the school board could live with? In other words, if Dalton didnt file this lawsuit, and the job was opened, would he have been rehired?
If School Boards were disbanded, to whom would the supporters of Mr. Ed then go? Who would determine teaching staffs, administrators, coaches? As the Governor's spokesman said yesterday, eventually, every department in government has to answer to an elected official who ultimately has to answer to the voters.
So, anon, who would that elected official be?
To the last post. Can we at least institute some kind of pre-requisites to becoming a school board member? Members don't even need to be a high school grad right now but they can be trusted with a multi-million dollar system? Why can't we have one board that runs the whole county? I Agree that something needs to be fixed because boards today are not for the approvement of the districts as much as they are for getting friends/relatives hired or fulfilling a vendetta.
Wait..... wasn't Ed Dalton the guy Trinity fired 3 or 4 times? .......And they hired the guy back? ..... The same school board did this? ......Hahahahahahahaha!
Honestly if the school board wanted to do the right thing for the students they would hire Dalton back as the AD and the football coach. They are wasting money paying their current AD to do nothing and nobody in their right mind would apply for an open position at Trinity after the drama that has taken place with the school board.
I believe "eventually" was the key word in the spokesman's comments. Local residents who have no qualification, other than the fact the they went to school (for the most part), are given the power to hire, retain, budget, negotiate, dismiss, etc. This, in my opinion, is beyond what they people should be permitted to do. I have close relatives that work in school districts in a neighboring state in which school districts are county-wide. These districts still have numerous high schools that all are under a central administration. They still have elected school boards but their capacity is more to oversee if the decisions made by the central administration are in the best interest of the students and taxpayers. There is your system of checks and balances. Therein lies the dilemma that we are facing in this state: school boards care much more about their own thoughts and opinions than the welfare of the people they are elected to represent, the STUDENTS of the district.
This school board is consistently inconsistent for the most part. Day on the other hand has "not changed his vote through the whole process" which makes him consistently wrong! He becomes tongue tied if you ask him why he believes Trinity needs a new football coach. Wonder why?!
What the school board has done by re-hiring Ed Dalton was a total shock and in my opinion very cowardly to avoid the lawsuit. From what we all understood is that they were going to hire a coach that was a great fit for Trinity and had a lot of high level coaching experience...Rich Piccinini. What happened to him in this process? Yet another Trinity school board fumble. What is this teaching our children...if you manipulate people you get what you want? Maybe i will move to the district Coach Piccinini coaches in.
"High level coaching?" You apparently haven't done your homework here! As a head coach Piccinini went 6-24. That's really great. Go ahead and move to the district where he coaches as a 12th assistant!
This board is crazy ridiculous! This was just a stall tactic to see if they can bribe Mike Wall into changing his mind. Do they really believe that it's even remotely possible to get 9 BM to agree on the stipulations that Dalton has to meet in order for him to become the football coach? Just another scheme!
First, I would like wish Ed all the best in his rehire at Trinity.I would also like to complement the supports of the coach, you saw an injustice and did something about it.It was a great lesson for our young men and woman to witness, they need to know that it is important to take a stand to correct a situation if they feel an injustice was done.
Ed has been critized for never winning a championship, but winners and champions need not always measured by wins and losses, we as coaches tell our players and you as parents tell your children that all we want and all we can ever expect from them, is their very best effort, and anyone that has watched ed coach or develop young men could never say that he has not given anything but his best effort.Ed has put his heart and soul into Trinity.
I know, that if you have never been a head coach, or have been blessed to be in a position to influence young men and woman you may say bla, bla, bla to my comment but it only means you do not get it.
What do you call a man, that has devoted his life to the development of young people both on and off the field, and what do you call a man when player upon player comes to his aid and support in a time of need . I CALL HIM A WINNER.
Ed, may God may bless you with the wisdom to persever.
Coach Jerry Cypher
Well said Jerry Cypher! There is so much that Coach Dalton has to offer besides his record. He's a great coach but what he gives to Trinity is much more than his record! Some say that everyone is replaceable, but it will take more than one person to ever fill this man's shoes. Coach Dalton and our kids have been worth every bit of fight that we've given and we're not going to give up. It's simply the right thing to do. It's what's good for Trinity!
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