Alk is correct , you need the whole story or at least the major guts to understand what has transpired and why since December of 2020 within the halls of VV.
You also MUST know what happened to Coach Skidmore if you’re going to post on this thread . Skidmore coached 34 years at VV, 29 as an assistant before getting the HC job . Also coached baseball for some time and was a HS Math teacher all 34 years . Not a blemish on his teaching record or coaching records .
-was Coach of the year in D4 southwest district 4 out of 5 seasons , 2017 D4 State COY . 77% winning percentage.
Mid December of 2020 former AD (Brian Lemke) met with Coach Skidmore and told him he didn’t want Andy Keating and Butch Stidham retained and he wants Skid to handle it ?!The only reason given at that time was because they received around 10 anonymous surveys saying “some” assistant coaches were bad role models essentially . These surveys didn’t have any coaches names on them .Yes VV does anonymous surveys to get feedback once the season is over …and the crazier part about that is you can submit one for any sport , meaning if you had a soccer player but wanted to do your own survey on football you could and still can btw and put on the survey anything you’d like in the comments section . Skid asked how with no names being mentioned do we know it’s Butch and Andy they’re referring to ? Lemke the AD tells Skid basically “we know”.
So Skid got ahold of his coaching staff and made them aware of what’s going on and to stay tight lipped about it because he was going to try and rectify the situation in house and didn’t want the public knowing what administration sought .
so 2 questions need answered so far -
1- what did Butch and Andy do to not be retained ?
Answer- they both had affairs a year or 2 prior to all this . It had all been but to rest but Apparently their personal business is someone else’s too (Board members)
2- why did the AD (at that time)want them out ?
answer- wasn’t the AD ! Was the Superintendent and a few School Board Members ! AD was their puppet
The AD resigned during all this and now has some kind of computers job in the District .
Obviously there’s so much detail that’s hard to fit in a post .
Skid met with the Superintendent many times . On 3 different occasions they had deals in place to go on with the current staff with only the superintendent to go against his word EVERY time . Skid said Superintendent Ben Richards lied to his face 3 times on agreements . Some of those meetings involved School Board members . Skid eventually resigned his position as HC and retired at the end of the school year . I hear he volunteered some of his time at Tri Village where Andy Keating and Chad Cradlebaugh(also on VV staff under Skid) coach now.
here’s the bottom line -
when Skid was hired as HC almost 50 people applied coming off 2 non winning seasons under Kris Ketron .
last year after this administrations debacle they only had 4 people apply . Moyer was the only one with HC experience . This is with VV winning 77% of games under Skid . Playoffs 4 out of 5 seasons , no losing records . And getting named area COY 4 out of 5 years … 4! People apply !
Thats because the Superintendent had this planned people . They didn’t post the job correctly either … they didn’t have an AD ,he resigned remember ? Superintendent made a 4 person committee compromised of 3 former football players and the baseball coach to find a new Football coach .
The committee suggested they KEEP the current staff but if changes were to be made to go with Moyer . One of those people on that committee spoke at this past Mondays BOE meeting 1-10-22 and said selecting Moyer was a Huge mistake . You can watch that meeting if you don’t believe me . The man Speaking is named Drew Smith a former VV QB and owns Spartan roofing company.
fast forward thru this season . VV had 3 BOE seats up for election in November . Skidmore-Rudd-Smith ran as a 3 person ticket , they ran UNOPPOSED! First board meeting was last Monday for the new members . At this first meeting newly elected and appointed president Rudd made a motion to re-open the VV HC job sighting the unbelievably horrible job the previous BOE and superintendent did last year with the situation . He said all the community has talked about is football for the last year and wants closure . Mentioned how little of a net was cast when Moyer was hired and VV deserved better . Said he is certain that football and weightlifting numbers are down and will continue to fall as he watches kids move to other districts to play . 50 guys applied 5 years ago , 4 last year with 1 of those from within and that is unacceptable .
I’d think this Yappi community can imagine VV is a football town . The Superintendent a few board members and a couple teachers and some residents don’t like that . Instead of trying to prop up whatever it is they have passion for ,they’d rather try and pull down the football program . There’s 3 new Sheriffs in town and Superintendent Richards and the 2 people carried over on the Board have a Rude awakening that started on 1-10-22
this current BOE is fixing the Giant mess that was left behind .
btw - Moyer wasn’t fired .
he can apply just like everyone else . It’s open to applicants till the 21st of January . They got it right by opening this back up .
thoughts on Moyer deserve a different thread
