(12-29-2017 11:21 PM)NIUfrank Wrote: (12-29-2017 11:07 PM)thehappyhuskie Wrote: Boy is it an awkward situation over there for Mt Carmel. Lenti is claiming he wasn't ready to step down. Alumni are all roused up.
Wow really? I'm surprised he said that even if he thought it. Have they won lately? Maybe game was passing him by?
If the game was passing him by, he wouldn't have finished the season 9-4 in 2017 and wouldn't have lost by a score in the state semifinals to undefeated Lake Zurich.
True, MC missed the playoffs last year for the first time in decades, but their conference was one of the best in the state. True, they had the breaks beat off them by other rival schools this year. It's probably true they lost out on other talent due to the nature of their option offense and the desire of parents and others to have their kids learn a pro-style to get to the NFL, as if that should be the main reason why they play the sport in the first place This explains it in more detail:
https://www.suntimeshighschoolsports.com...nt-carmel/
If they were pushing him out due to abuse or illegal conduct, it would be one thing. But Lenti won 11 state titles. 374 games. Other than a IHSA suspension a few years back for improperly inviting potential students/recruits to a playoff game, which the school admitted to, he hasn't been accused of massive wrongdoing. Nobody is bigger than the school, but he more than earned the right to go out on his own terms. Shame on Mount Carmel.
As for Jordan, he obviously wants to be a head coach, he's young enough to relate to the kids, and it's his alma mater. With Carey's long-term future undecided, it's an understandable move. But he has to follow a HOF legend and a situation that became toxic fast. That's impossible for most to handle. If I were him, I would not want anything to do with such a completely unfair decision on my former coach, but that's for Jordan to explain, not me.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have a co-worker who is married to somebody on staff at MC, but I have never met him and other than going to an occasional HS game where they play in Chicago, I have no other ties to the school.