If this is so, Kennedy should have changed a long time ago.

If it is to the students, which it should be: the life lessons being taught in a positive fashion should be number one and that is agreeable, but is it not up to the loyalty of the coach to learn and adjust to current times and ways of a sport, allowing students to learn different facets of a game in order to better themselves with the understanding and development of an ever-growing competitive arena which is also part of the experience of high school?

This is what I think is the question: Having an experience which allows for a coach to control if you will, the culture of an athletic program, which usually is controlled by the athletic director allows for a skewed view or concept leading to an inept conclusion preceded by an undesirable transition; therefore the results which have culminated from years of unattractive outcomes combined with the unchanged administration, lead one to ask why has the fiber of which the program started not grown or changed to mold itself with the advancements of generations that attend the institution?

I believe the answer to be in the culture of the school.

If the administration believes that the athletics at the school are better administered towards life learning and to aid the academic aspect of the institution, then to hold on to a coach that is teaching these lessons is absolutely in line with their direction and to find a coach with the same mind set is a blessing.

If the Institution is based on the identity of the athletic programs a school must adhere to public scrutiny and want, finding themselves involved with a revolving door for coaches maybe taking considerable time away from current student-athletes; however it will build a tradition that may pour into the students in the future of being successful but that is 50-50 at best and only time can show the results good or bad that an administration does not have the time to try to solidify.

Last but not least, if the institution believes in itself to be an evolutionary school wanting to show that it can open itself to advancements and make adjustments and promising to use athletics as a tool for the development for a student-athlete both in and out of the classroom by showing how instrumental any extra curricular activity is absolutely beneficial to the growth to young adults, then and only then will the school find a way to keep athletics and academics to growing, meaning finding coaches who believe it is possible to be successful in any situation and have the ability and desire to do so. This result is only dependent on the fact that the administration is not afraid to change, this process can be difficult; nevertheless it is well worth it.

I have seen a couple articles about Coach Mike from Fremont how he has been there for almost 50 or 60 years, but I was amazed to see that this year, 08, was their first NCS playoff win. C’mon 50-60 years before a win and they have only gone 4 times. I hear about talent that comes out of this school but I never see it. They had two backers with speed this year, with good speed and never once showed a spread. Throw the ball. Almost everyone in California does it why don’t they?
The people that have met him say he is a really nice guy. But they do not comment on his football prowess. He was quoted as saying he will be here for the 50th homecoming, isn’t that up to the administration (principle, athletic director) or is that school so used to losing that it doesn’t care about the program. Kennedy doesn’t do well in sports period, maybe because they don’t know how to move on and get good coaching. Maybe Coach Mike is a good guy, probably the best man I will have the honor of meeting, I am not saying he is a bad person. What I am asking, is it time to move forward the school has not had another football coach, ever. They’ve run the same plays well… forever and the only thing they can really hang their hat on is that their football coach knows everyone. I hear they bring back former players to come in and help out and coach, but if those former players can only coach what he has been coaching for years isn’t it time to change things. I have heard new coaches do want to come in but the administration and the AD won’t allow it. I heard they are good friends of Coach Mike’s. I am sorry but I do not who the AD is but whoever they are really needs to set precedence and stop putting you and your friends first. I have never gone to Kennedy nor do my kids, but I have friends who have kids in junior high that will be going there and they do not want to play sports at Kennedy. Not a lot of their sports teams have winning seasons, and no its not only about winning, but it seems when they do win the school doesn’t care because its not football or they get rid of the coaches. Sports aren’t the only thing in high school but it does help in the development of the young. If Coach Mike is there for 6 more years and continues with his losing tradition the kids will learn one thing for sure, how to lose with dignity and grace. Although I heard they couldn’t even do that against Encinal (former players rise up). The school needs new blood, but I guess if they are considered the worst school in Fremont to go to, they won’t try. Well, if Kennedy continues with its own ways at least my kids will beat them in sports just like I did. The Administration needs to change this, if they do not make a change at least let my friends’ kids transfer somewhere else. You know, where the athletic director doesn’t put friendship before the kids.