Over The Hills
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Coach Zagorski is doing a fantastic job at Gilmour.Hate to break it to you guys, but the Tommy Z ship has sailed. Two times he was passed over already, for Carter Welo and then for the new AD Carter (and then he would've replaced Goode as HC) he is now at GA, in a BETTER job, making (MUCH) MORE money then he'd be making at Benny and I could even argue that GA is a better place to be right now. Not a better football team, but that place has a lot more direction, less confusion and an 'easier' path to exceed their expectations. He ain't coming home folks, he wanted too, but now hes a husband, a father, a head coach somewhere else. The best we can do now is wish that one of the all-time great Bengals has tremendous success over there.
Now, the bigger issues...
This has been a blaze crackling since when Schaefer left and thanks to some who I think we can all figure out, this is now closer to being a five-alarm fire then it being extinguished. Several examples; First was when Schaefer left, there was a younger already established alum ready to take over as HC and Lorber gave that job to Welo. And you know what, Lorber had that right, it was his call, he hired who he thought was the best choice (right or wrong) but what pissed that alum off and then subsequently the other alums that he had ready to join him on staff was that Lorber and/or the admin never even gave him the decency to let him know he was being passed over, let him find out like the rest of us. You don't do that stuff to outsiders, yet alone your own. Secondly, there are people now in that "inner circle" of the program who are just not good dudes. Maybe they have the ability financially to provide new cool jerseys or things like that but they are rats, plain and simple. People within the program know that but for some reasons (probably $$$) have turned the other cheek, but more importantly there are parents and perspective student-athletes who can see that too. When one kid at a school decides he is not going to be a Bengal and an adult calls him a or tells him he's not "Bengal material" that gets around and in (at least 3) cases kids who probably should or could be at Benny are not because of that guy! Lastly, its this current staff, which I was admonished for earlier this season for saying they were yellers and not teachers and now this missing practice stuff among things. Its just not the right staff, not for these kids.
Oh well, thats my two cents, I'm sure nobody will get goofy in the responses and I'm sure we won't call people idiots or attack their characters... #MoB
If he sticks around, that program will grow and do very well.
His positive vibe combined with his skill as a football coach is off the charts on both ends.
I can't see how Benedictine didn't hire this guy, especially since Benny likes to hire alums.
He is the total package as a catholic high school head football coach.