Regarding Grayslake Central boys b'ball coach Tim Bowen getting whacked by the Grayslake school board.
While a sad development, it apparently can happen to the best of them.
Refresh my memory on this, but it seems like a few years ago, there was some sentiment on the Warren High school board to whack Chuck Ramsey as Blue Devils varsity boys hoops coach.
Seems like the vote to retain him was something like 4-3 ... ridiculously too close for comfort for the area's best hoops coach.
The fact that 43 percent of the board members thought Chuck should go at that time goes to show that literally anything can happen.
As Bowen found out the hard way.
Refresh the memory please ...
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I don't know for sure, but it's possible Ramsey's case was voted on because he was retiring from teaching and some might not have wanted a coach not in the building during the school day continuing as coach? Again, I'm not sure that was the case, but if it was, it's certainly a different scenario than the Bowen case.
Reading some comments to the articles on Bowen, a significant part of the story that went unreported in the his firing was the apparent actions of a disgruntled ex-coach of Bowen's staff to instigate the board actions against Bowen. I don't know how true these accusations are, but if true, I find the former coach's actions reprehensible. If he had problems with Bowen, he should have stepped aside and moved on, not grinded his axe. Now if the players were against Bowen too, maybe he could've lended some justification to their gripes, but given the fact it seems the vast majority were fine with Bowen as coach, the former coach's actions, in my view, were highly unjustified.
CWAhooo is exactly right. It was to retain him as coach even though he is retired as teacher.
Not the same as Bowen's situation.