Consider the case of Grant High basketball coach John Eiduke.
He played basketball for Grant High in the 1990s, and eventually worked his way back home, so to speak, where, for the last seven years, he served as coach of Grant High's sophomore boys basketball team.
That would, you would guess, make him a solid candidate to become Grant High's varsity boys basketball coach, if/when veteran coach Phil Ralston dedided it was time to move on.
Alas for John, the coach of Grant High's varsity GIRLS basketball team, Phil Oeffling, stepped down in the early spring, creating an opening.
Eiduke, ever qualified, was hired as the rock-solid choice to take over the Bulldogs' girls varsity program.
Alas, two months later, Ralston announced he was leaving his Grant varsity BOYS basketball job to take the same position at Geneva High. That created an opening that, if it had been there two months earlier, you have to wonder if Eudike wouldn't have been the perfect fit for the BOYS program.
But because he just got the girls job, he obviously couldn't even be considered for the boys job, which should be filled soon.
If the coaching vacancies had occurred in a different order ...
As they say, timing is everything.
