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Controversy in basketball program at high school program

Ya kinda knew this was coming - it actually surprises me it took this long..

...a Pam Adams followup -- but it took 3 months and very little detail except he does comment on the African-American player in question...

Dunlap HS (IL) basketball coach Jeff Barker "resigned" today...

"The resignation, effectively immediately .. is an outgrowth of an earlier dispute between Barker and his superiors
over an African-American player Barker said he was forced to add to the team. Barker said he was also mandated
to make sure the student played during a game."

"...Barker wrote in his resignation letter, "..In reality, the African-American player in question was physically
and mentally incapable of participating on the team."

http://www.pjstar.com/news/20160307...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
tornado said:
Ya kinda knew this was coming - it actually surprises me it took this long..

...a Pam Adams followup -- but it took 3 months and very little detail except he does comment on the African-American player in question...

Dunlap HS (IL) basketball coach Jeff Barker "resigned" today...

"The resignation, effectively immediately .. is an outgrowth of an earlier dispute between Barker and his superiors
over an African-American player Barker said he was forced to add to the team. Barker said he was also mandated
to make sure the student played during a game."

"...Barker wrote in his resignation letter, "..In reality, the African-American player in question was physically
and mentally incapable of participating on the team."

http://www.pjstar.com/news/20160307...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Doesn't surprise me one bit. What a sorry state the Dunlap program is in. Good fricking luck getting someone to take that job. Good coaches wouldn't touch that job with a ten foot pole.
 
Wow, good thing Bradley doesn't have any meddling by the administration in the decisions that should be made by the basketball coach. :roll:
 
wait- you mean it isn't routine for an administrator or president to routinely tell the coach who to recruit, who to play, and who to hire as his assistants?
I had come to think that was pretty darned common and routine...
 
Difficult situation. I think almost all coaches should be (and are) allowed to run their programs. But, I think we would all agree some HS coaches are *****s. I'm not speaking of this guy in particular, I don't know anything about him. But it's not out of the realm of possibility that the coach was wrong, and his administration was trying to help him become a better coach.
 
As a proud Class of 81 graduate, our men's b-ball team finished 2nd in Class A that year, it's certainly a sad end to an ugly affair. My question now would be are we going to get the next hire right because Barker Part 2 was a disaster. Here's hoping that the administration administrates and leave the coaching to the coaches.
 
Sad story. Unfortunately, this is what happens when political correctness is forced on people.

Have there been any new developments with the player walkout at Henry high school?
 
followup to this sad story that was all provoked by the Dunlap Superintendant and others micromanaging and bullying their basketball coach...

-the coach in question, Jeff Barker, resigned on March 7

-Dunlap then, a little over a month later, hired away the Limestone assistant basketball coach Tony Thomason
http://dunlapeaglesathletics.com/2016/04/20/dunlap-hires-new-basketball-coach/

-I cannot find any reports of Thomason's former position at Limestone being filled yet, but their head coach is past Bradley Braves' star Eddie Mathews

-some people's requests went unheeded
https://twitter.com/ColeHitsThrees/status/706998782093713409

-the author of the original story in PJS that played "the race card" and implied the entire issue was due to racism in Dunlap - has yet to write anything further after it was revealed that many of the major players in this mess including the player and the person meddling to bully the coach on personnel & playing time decisions were all Black....thus pretty much by consensus there was no racism here as Pam Adam instantly alleged.

-there also has been no followup as to where Jeff Barker went
 
I hope the Dunlap people ( or anyone else for that matter) do not allow this to die. To let it die allows it to happen again. No one should be allowed to exert their authority in areas that do not concern them.
 
tornado said:
followup to this sad story that was all provoked by the Dunlap Superintendant...

-the coach in question, Jeff Barker, resigned on March 7...
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tornado said:
Dunlap's Athletic Director suddenly steps down ...
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not sure if this meddling and interference story is over because now, the Dunlap School Superintendant is terminated and...nobody knows why...
"No one would explain why."
"It makes no sense.."
"I don??™t understand why this is going on"
..well, they voted for the people on the board who made this decision.....
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20171121/lisa-parker-out-as-dunlap-school-superintendent
 
tornado said:
not sure if this meddling and interference story is over because now, the Dunlap School Superintendant is terminated and...nobody knows why...
"No one would explain why."
"It makes no sense.."
"I don??™t understand why this is going on"
..well, they voted for the people on the board who made this decision.....
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20171121/lisa-parker-out-as-dunlap-school-superintendent
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The timing seems odd though. It makes me think there was something else going on. There were probably a lot of things that happened that we don't know about. I highly doubt this is JUST about the basketball issue.
 
well, it wouldn't be hard for even a newbie reporter to actually get the story....
seems just about everyone in Dunlap wanted to talk about it...

but oddly, the only story we've seen yet is written by Pam Adams who instantly blew into a rage that this was all a terrible racist issue - when obviously it doesn't have a thing to do with race!

Anyway - she will be paid thru December then "she will get a more than $80,000 severance package".
Maybe we all went into the wrong line of work - nobody has ever offered me $80,000 to NOT WORK.
 
tornado said:
well, it wouldn't be hard for even a newbie reporter to actually get the story....
seems just about everyone in Dunlap wanted to talk about it...

but oddly, the only story we've seen yet is written by Pam Adams who instantly blew into a rage that this was all a terrible racist issue - when obviously it doesn't have a thing to do with race!

Anyway - she will be paid thru December then "she will get a more than $80,000 severance package".
Maybe we all went into the wrong line of work - nobody has ever offered me $80,000 to NOT WORK.
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According to the article she will work thru Dec. 31 and paid through end of the school year...so May of 18. Her contract was though the end of the 2020 school year.....so obviously they settled on this. I'm not sure what happened(and don't want to speculate) but obviously the board was not in full agreement. I talked to a board chairman of a nearby school and they thought it was a little unusual for something like this to happen on a 4-3 vote
 
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