This ongoing debate about Grayslake Central High's old varsity boys basketball coach and its new basketball coach ... well, over here in The Locker Room, we have decided it is a stalement.
Nobody's going to announce what specifically got Tim Bowen fired, and the generalities being spewed regarding his dismissal, unfortunately, don't sound any worse than what goes on at every school in the state and don't seem like grouinds to whack him.
So, since nobody's going to talk, there's no place to go with this.
In The Locker Room, there is concern for the kids who play hoops at GCHS who are following this debate online. This can't be a positive for them.
As for the school board that did the whacking, these people don't get paid. They are volunteers so it's pretty hard to pick on them. You have to be pretty cool to volunteer as much time as it takes to be on a school board. If they made a bad choice in whacking Bowen, then make sure the board members get whacked themselves at the next election. The key thing is to make sure the kids on the team are happy and are put in the best possible position to be successful on the court next winter. We in The Locker Room are rooting for them. The rest of you can fend for yourselves.
Boys basketball: August 2008 Archives
Thursday night, Grayslake's high-school board hired Grayslake Central assistant varsity basketball coach Brian Moe as head coach for the 2008-2009 season.
Moe, of course, is replacing Tim Bowen, who was ousted for reasons that were not related to the team's 22-win, Fox Valley Conference and regional championship season last winter.
Moe inherits a talented, veteran squad that is expected to challenge North Chicago for Class 3A supremecy in our area next season.
Before coming to Grayslake, Moe worked as a lower-level coach at Mundelein High.
What do you think Ram fans?
In The Locker Room, we sort of look at this as a no-choice situation. At this late date, the board pretty much had to go in-house to find a coach, just as North Chicago had to go in-house to hire a varsity football coach a couple of weeks ago.
In any case, we are rooting for the kids at GCHS to have a success and happy season.
Way too much Locker Room chatter regarding the hiring practices for coaches at North Chicago High, with King Coleman coming under siege in some quarters.
Truth is, King managed to keep almost all his players academically eligible for all of last season, which is no easy feat. Not only that, but his team won 25 games.
The guess is that King spends more time with his players during non-school and non-practice situations than he does at the regular school/practice times.
Coaching at NC High is not easy and it certainly isn't like coaching at other schools in our a area.
Do we like King in The Locker Room. That's obvious.
But more importantly, we respect him for the job he's trying to do for the NC kids.
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The buzz in The Locker Room is that longtime hoops coach Jerry Thornton -- who has tons of hoops-coaching experience (like more than 25 years at all sorts of levels, including high school and juco) -- is a possible replacement for Tim Bowen at the wheel at Grayslake Central.
Thornton reportedly has been coaching of late with the Kessel's Heat youth hoops program and has worked with some of the current members of Grayslake Central's hoops team.
We shall stay tuned.
