some clarity on the Syo issue -
while there has been a tremendous amount of support for the coach and a vocal minority of people with complaints (some valid and some not so much) the coach was repeatedly given the support of the administration about "coaching style and playing time issues" the final straw that led to this was an incident off the field that was reported to the school by another employee of the school district and not a parent of a player on the team (although after the situation became public I believe other parents did come forward and complained).
constant parent complaints might have been a contributing factor but they were not why this happened.
Personally I think the Board and the Superintendent spend way to much time on this one team and one coach when they have to spend so much time on real issues like common core and budgets, it seems like a stronger AD could have prevented a lot of the parent complaints and by giving meeting to all these parents they gave them a sense of power that maybe in the long run hurts the program.
God speed to the next coach that has to deal with us folks, unless he can figure out how to play 35 kids at one time he will be crucified on here and in the AD's office the morning after the first game. Imagine what the parents would be like if Syo was a losing team????
JC was and will continue to be a good coach and has "helped" build a very good program but regardless of who takes over the varsity the youth program and more importantly all the travel programs will continue to feed the HS with very well trained lacrosse players.
Good luck coach
