Silver, I see articles all the time here in Georgia about HS football coaches making 6 figures annually.......a lot of these schools are small classifications too!
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Head coach at MANATEE OUT
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You guys think Manatee and Sarasota counties pay bad, you should see Charlotte. Our weight lifting coach makes what an assistant makes in Sarasota, and the asst weightlifting coach volunteers here.
5k is generous. When I was coaching at FPC our HC split the stipend of 3.6k between the coordinators (the HC was also the OC). Then the 8 position coaches split the 4, 1.6k assitant coach stipends
St lucie stipends
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Still nothing.....? I thought after spring ball ya'll folks in Manatee Co would have a special announcement
Well Good for Lascari, and too bad for Manatee. Like a I said earlier......Getting Joe Kinnan was a once in a life time situation............I'm accepting the ride is really over this time.
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Let's not get all choked up Lascari was hardly a Joe, and I liked him as a choice . Although I'm not sure how sane they are, I just heard they were going talking to the former BCS coach instead of the 3rd "finalist".
No one said I was all choked up.............just commenting on the harsh reality of the entire situation........Probably never see another situation at Manatee at least in my life time when Joe made the decision to come back home to Bradenton.
I had to just shake my head when I read this weekend that Gulash and Phellan
were working a St Stephens now.........
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I had to just shake my head when I read this weekend that Gulash and Phellan
were working a St Stephens now.........
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Lascari is a great coach IMO and would have Manatee rolling.
Granted, we're not very good right now and we barely showed up to that game ...but they beat the brakes off of us last season. Their kids were well coached and they played extremely physical.
Granted, we're not very good right now and we barely showed up to that game ...but they beat the brakes off of us last season. Their kids were well coached and they played extremely physical.
so as a fellow in Manatee Co explained it- multiple candidates have pulled out and Manatee was even turned down by the BCS former head. Basically everyone involved is getting better deals or walking away... this is truly turning into a mess
The whole issue is money!! Manatee would have a coach right if that wasn't the case. Every Manatee county high school would have the same problem if they where hiring a coach right now. The county has really handcuffed the schools because of their terrible pay!!
If things don't change all of the schhools in this county are going to suffer.
If things don't change all of the schhools in this county are going to suffer.
Put aside the money situation for a moment, Joe came to Manatee in 1981 and was there, except for when he stepped away to deal with his cancer issues through 2013.........that 20 plus years of young men/alumni that were coached by Joe and then played collegiately, and not one single former player from all those years is interested in giving it a go?
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Money is indeed an issue. A first year teacher will start off around 38,000 - 40,000 a year and receive a stipend of 5,000 as a head coach. Look at the difference in the wages even though as a coach you may put in just as much time coaching, or even more.
Sure there has to be at least one...
Perhaps some have applied...
Maybe the committee is giving the Coach Joe disciples the stiff arm...
Perhaps some have applied...
Maybe the committee is giving the Coach Joe disciples the stiff arm...
I think the guys that are interested they don't want to hire, and they guys they want to hire are not interested.
From a team aspect, it is a good sign these Manatee student athletes riding this roller coaster are sticking together through this.
They must be confident, believe and trust that Manatee will have their new Head Coach in place soon, and it will be the the right coach in place to right the ship for Manatee football.
They must be confident, believe and trust that Manatee will have their new Head Coach in place soon, and it will be the the right coach in place to right the ship for Manatee football.
Seems like a very good coach, but interesting in that a mere 8 weeks ago his principal said that they had been talking about "professional opportunities" and he was off for that. Wonder what that was all about.
I guess that means one of the following:
A.) Things Change - Dwight Yoakam (1998)
B.) Who's Zoomin Who - Aretha Franklin (1985)
C.) What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (1979)
D.) Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood (1986)
E.) All of the above
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A.) Things Change - Dwight Yoakam (1998)
B.) Who's Zoomin Who - Aretha Franklin (1985)
C.) What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers (1979)
D.) Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood (1986)
E.) All of the above
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Great song list GM. And what an impressive A.
You know SK believes you can address anything with a Steely Dan song, so here' one for Ole' Joe.
You know SK believes you can address anything with a Steely Dan song, so here' one for Ole' Joe.
Got the wife to forego turning on the TV on Sunday this past weekend, and instead tolerate me playing the iPod. This song came on and I immediately thought about you Silver and you trying out the new PA system at the Charlotte HS football stadium!
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Joe took them off the schedule first,(when they were horrible) then when MHS wanted them back they said go pound sand.
Came down for 2 games in 2009, the Braden River game and then the STA state semi final game. Manatee barely beat Braden River 14-7 on a late 4th QT TD by a backup tb, on one of those nights when Brion couldn't hit the broad side of a barn passing wise. The Game was at Manatee so I decided to sit on the visitors side, figuring premium options with seating. Was divorced at the time and brought my soon to be wife down for her 1st HS football game. We ended up behind a couple, that had brought with them jugs filled with pennies I guess............All I know they never missed an opportunity to make noise with them! To top it off the guy when he shook his jug he made very exaggerated movements, coming very close to my wife's face a couple of times. My resolve was we're on the wrong side of the field, there is plenty of room lets just move down a little so its no longer an issue. Her resolve was F that, I'm not moving anywhere we were here 1st, he does it again I'm throwing my drink on him! She was quickly losing her sweet southern charm, and was itching to start a fight at her 1st HS football game! I finally through some intense negotiating convinced her that coming 558 miles for a HS football game, capped off by a potential night in the Manatee County Jail just was really not worth it and that I was really looking forward to a week out on the beach in LongBoat Key and to her should also be worth way more than a fight with an obnoxious ignoramus, that ultimately she'd start but I would have to finish.........memories!!!! 
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Ha ha, great story, I like her already! Can't believe you remember that story about testing the PA system with that song. The same PA system that a day later announced that Hail Mary Brion threw so Manatee could hit the FG as time ran out to beat us on the new Fish Bowl's inaugural game.
text came through that the former Lincoln HC will be your new HC at Manatee High. Any of you Manatee faithful want to confirm. This came from a coach in Manatee Co.
Can we wrap this up please. Capt. SK heading for Maine to sail the month of June at his other job. Don't have a lot of time for the fooseball up there.
