Hard to comment when we don't know the specifics behind the firing. If her college coaches are okay with her not running for the school and continuing to be coached by her former coach then more power to her. Although her teammates may feel a bit let down that she's choosing the coach over them.
joalturn wrote:
Hard to comment when we don't know the specifics behind the firing. If her college coaches are okay with her not running for the school and continuing to be coached by her former coach then more power to her. Although her teammates may feel a bit let down that she's choosing the coach over them.
I believe Craig Jordan is Michael Jordan's brother (the steeplechaser with American Distance Project).
Who knows what actually happened. He could have lawyered up for a wrongful termination suit. Greencastle is a small town and small towns have all kinds of politics and favoratism.
But I wonder how much she actually runs and interacts with the girl's team. Her next fastest teammate ran over 23 minutes at sectionals and Emma is faster than all the high school boys at Greencastle. She either runs alone a lot or trains with better runners (the Depauw team or someone else).
Don't speculate on things you don't know two wags of a lamb's tail about.
"Emma Wilson has decided not to run for Greencastle high school anymore, because of their treatment of coach Jordan. Last year after we returned from the Nike meet the Greencastle administration fired coach Jordan. The school board stepped in and brought him back when they found out his firing was based on the lies of 2 parents and the racial bias of the principal. They forced the principal to resign because of what happened, unfortunately they kept the superintendent and the athletic director. They promised big changes and a smooth year to both coach Jordan and to Emma. Before school started the harassment started back in for coach Jordan with lies and false allegations against him. He was able to prove his innocence with every lie and allegation held against him. Then when Emma chose to sign with Illinois they AD skipped the signing and when the principal asked why he wasn’t informed about the signing the AD blamed coach Jordan. The principal then threatened to fire coach Jordan for insubordination. Coach was able to get the AD to admit he knew about Emma’s signing, but the principal still chose to punish coach, but they change the allegations against him from not informing them about the signing to not reserving the room correctly. The room was reserved by the AD’s secretary, so was reserved correctly.
Two weeks later the day before we left for the Nike meet they fired coach Jordan again. Another girl had a signing scheduled for that day. The parent of the daughter wanted to move the signing to a new location since the coach was no longer allowed on school grounds and he had to meet with the principal to get that arranged. The principal was very upset that he didn’t know about another signing and started to blame the coach. The parent spoke up and said that he had scheduled everything through the AD and not the coach. The AD has faced no consequences for lying and failing to inform the principal of two signings, but they used that to remove coach from his position. This is just one of the many things that has been going on at the Greencastle high school. They have even gone as far as to put restrictions on practices.
I have met with and e-mail the school board several times and they don’t seem to care or want to step in and do anything this year, even though it seems to be racial motivated again.
Emma has decided she can no longer represent a school that treats people the way the Greencastle school administration has treated coach Jordan. It was an easy decision for her to make, but she will miss competing with her friends and having the opportunity to compete for two more state titles.
She will continue to run for coach Jordan and his running club Miles to Go, as long as he is able to continue coaching her." - sayeth her father
Sounds like typical small town BS at the end of the day. I wonder how much this will blow up.
Also, you don't know how much I know about lamb's tails.
From my own experience as an educator when these type things happen, there should be some responsibility put on the teacher/coach.
You dont have the Superintenden/ Principal/ AD all turn on you for no reason.
Being that it is a public school, I assuming he is suing for a violation of his due process.
Inaccurate stereotype.
DRAMA
Former Hoosier wrote:
Having lived, worked, and competed in Indiana, I can completely believe that some racial crap was going down. Small town racists are a dime a dozen in Indiana and they seem to rise to positions of power in local politics (and beyond...).
Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier, pal. You passer-byers have not earned the right to be called a Hoosier.
As a former president of a teachers union I have seen administration fire people for procedural stuff like not scheduling events through the proper channels.....its usually a witch hunt.
If the above stuff is true....the guy is better served to move on and do great things in other places. Hopefully a school in their conference so he can beat them every year
I coach 13 years as assistant and then finally got a head coaching job at neighbor smaller high school. Was not a teacher. Had great growth over two years with more kids coming out boys and girls then ever before.
I got three football players who were half milers in track that spring to come run cross for that next fall. Then come soon after those guys made that decision the football coach science teacher called the kids pussies and we’re telling girls that running was bad for their knees. I was then told I had to adopt the football players strength and conditioning for the rest of track and for cross country summer and fall. I said no and said if you force me I’ll quit. I had my entire girls and 6 out of the 7 boys varsity parent runners sign a statement in my decision to not adopt the football players weight lifting program. They forced it and I quit. New coaches in didn’t have to do the weight lifting.
Come to find out the school has had turnover of basketball, baseball and soccer and cross track coaches every 3-5 years due to football wrestling coach desire to control everything and principle and AD and superintendent are part of the football club.
Shady things happened at these schools with people in power that want to stay in power, just like our government.
NikeMarketingTeam wrote:
From my own experience as an educator when these type things happen, there should be some responsibility put on the teacher/coach.
You dont have the Superintenden/ Principal/ AD all turn on you for no reason.
Being that it is a public school, I assuming he is suing for a violation of his due process.
You're giving them far too much credit. Some people are genuine @$$holes.
He was a pretty decent athlete at Butler:
Collegiate Bests:
800m (I) – 1:52.06
800m (O) – 1:50.59
1,500m – 3:47.00
Mile (I) – 4:06.59
3,000m Steeple – 8:58.84
vivalarepublica wrote:
Former Hoosier wrote:
Having lived, worked, and competed in Indiana, I can completely believe that some racial crap was going down. Small town racists are a dime a dozen in Indiana and they seem to rise to positions of power in local politics (and beyond...).
Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier, pal. You passer-byers have not earned the right to be called a Hoosier.
The word "Hoosier" comes from so many people in Indiana asking "Who's your Daddy" and no one knows the answer. So they just shortened it to Hoosier and a shrug.
HoosierDaddy wrote:
vivalarepublica wrote:
Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier, pal. You passer-byers have not earned the right to be called a Hoosier.
The word "Hoosier" comes from so many people in Indiana asking "Who's your Daddy" and no one knows the answer. So they just shortened it to Hoosier and a shrug.
Wrong. Nobody knows the exact origin of the word Hoosier. That is simply one of the theories. Try again, pal.
The guy was just trolling, albeit not in a very clever way.
What are the chances the actual details come out around this? Seems more than a little bizarre.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Former Hoosier wrote:
Having lived, worked, and competed in Indiana, I can completely believe that some racial crap was going down. Small town racists are a dime a dozen in Indiana and they seem to rise to positions of power in local politics (and beyond...).
Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier, pal. You passer-byers have not earned the right to be called a Hoosier.
As someone born and breed in indiana and who went to IU, i qualify as a hoosier. also having grown up in a small, rural town, i can tell you the racist crap is out of control and very likely a factor.
BS.
InsertNameHere wrote:
The guy was just trolling, albeit not in a very clever way.
What are the chances the actual details come out around this? Seems more than a little bizarre.
lol chances are slim to none. School will probably never answer people's questions about the reasoning, or they'll give some bs answer for public record as to why. They'll dig up some little tiny thing that they can use as a reason for letting someone go.
I will be emailing them to let them know my concern and I suggest others do to