Coach Wade voted off SBU island
Brendan Block
Issue date: 2/25/09 Section: News
Team members told the "Omnibus" Wade said he was going for medical testing.
On Tuesday Feb. 3, David Pierce, Director of Human Resources interviewed the entire team and they almost unanimously wanted to keep Wade, according to several players. Mitchell and Isaac feel misled because they were told by Good that the players were the real stakeholders.
Now SBU must find a new coach for next school year as Assistant Coach Mitchell Browning takes over for the spring.
"We came to this school because of Coach Wade," said Isaac. "I don't think SBU is going to find a coach nearly as good as him. I think what they've done to him is a big big mistake. This year we could have gone to nationals no doubt, with the seniors and recruits he has."
SBU is the only school in the MIAA with international players on its soccer roster. Eight rising seniors would have comprised Wade's first full recruiting class.
The eight international players represent almost half of SBU's 20 international students, according to Spring 2009 enrollment numbers. The team he assembled was 8-2-2 when he left SBU to be a contestant on 'Survivor.'
The day his contract was bought out, Wade said he expected to retrieve the rest of his belongings from his office in early March.
On Tuesday Feb. 3, David Pierce, Director of Human Resources interviewed the entire team and they almost unanimously wanted to keep Wade, according to several players. Mitchell and Isaac feel misled because they were told by Good that the players were the real stakeholders.
Now SBU must find a new coach for next school year as Assistant Coach Mitchell Browning takes over for the spring.
"We came to this school because of Coach Wade," said Isaac. "I don't think SBU is going to find a coach nearly as good as him. I think what they've done to him is a big big mistake. This year we could have gone to nationals no doubt, with the seniors and recruits he has."
SBU is the only school in the MIAA with international players on its soccer roster. Eight rising seniors would have comprised Wade's first full recruiting class.
The eight international players represent almost half of SBU's 20 international students, according to Spring 2009 enrollment numbers. The team he assembled was 8-2-2 when he left SBU to be a contestant on 'Survivor.'
The day his contract was bought out, Wade said he expected to retrieve the rest of his belongings from his office in early March.
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Bob Tolliver
posted 2/24/09 @ 10:17 PM CST
While I understand the ethical issues of firing Coach Wade, the fact that to have told anyone what he was doing would have disqualified him, he had no other choice. (Continued…)
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