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Barnes not retained as Arroyo coach
By Phil Jensen
Monday, December 10th, 2012 at 5:04 pm in Uncategorized.
James Barnes said today that he has not been retained as Arroyo High’s football coach.
“They wanted a coach on campus who could have more interaction with the kids,” said Barnes, an off-campus coach who was the Dons’ coach for three seasons. “I have no ill feelings about Arroyo. It was a great experience … I learned a lot from it. I thank (principal) Larry (Smith) for bringing me in and allowing me to coach the program.”
Both Barnes and Smith said this had nothing to do with the situation involving Arroyo and the North Coast Section football playoffs this past season. The NCS office had not received an application from Arroyo by the stated deadline, said NCS commissioner Gil Lemmon. Barnes said that he sent the application before the deadline.
“I guess it didn’t go through on my end,” Barnes said.
Arroyo was 6-4 this past season and finished second in the West Alameda County Conference-Shoreline Divsion with a 4-1 record. Overall, Barnes was 16-15 in his three seasons at Arroyo.
Smith said that all walk-on coaches are let go after the season, then the job has to be posted internally at the site and at the district level.
Smith said that he is looking to hire an on-campus coach and that he had made a recommendation to the personnel department of the San Lorenzo Unified School District, but it has not been approved yet. Barnes said that Chad Sullivan, the linebackers coach last season, has been hired as his replacement. Athletic director Joe Delucchi confirmed that Sullivan has been hired.
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December 10th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
So this guy Sullivan is now the new coach? If not hire the best candidate. Jacob Wright is an on-campus coach. That doesn’t seem to mean much. So is Brad Bowers.
December 10th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
Chad Sullivan is an awesome guy, teacher, and coach
I had the pleasure of having Chad as my teacher for multiple PE classes at CSU East Bay in hayward where he has been a teacher
One of my mentors going through the PE teaching department there
December 11th, 2012 at 9:52 am
@Phil Jensen
Is Sullivan the new coach at Arroyo?
(I heard coach at Piedmont has been let go. & Goree at O-high has been forced to either re interview his whole staff or fired them all)
December 11th, 2012 at 10:28 am
Thats too bad for Barnes but he had too many issues with that program.
December 11th, 2012 at 3:16 pm
@Perkin, I just confirmed it with Arroyo’s principal. Sullivan has been hired as the new head coach.
December 11th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
any back round on him?
December 11th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Please delete the last post from me, please. It was not my place to share Chad Sullivan’s background.
December 11th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
Voice of reason, were you impressed with the DLS beating of Folsom?
I found it very intersting that Folsom coaches thought they had DeLaSalle figured out by watching and playing them in the past.
December 11th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Congrats to Coach Sullivan, Wish the best to coach barnes who did a nice job. I think Sullivan will do a good job as well. Good Pedigree!!
December 12th, 2012 at 9:17 am
I was extremely impressed with the DLS dismantling of Folsom. After hearing Folsom had allowed only 9 QB sacks the entire season I thought they must have a tremendous OL. Not so. Hooper had 3 sacks alone, plus a deflected pass and a few plays where Browning had to hurry a throw. Interesting, the Folsom coach abandoned any notion of running the ball from the get go, all but conceding they couldn’t gain any yards on the ground against the DL of DLS. I can’t imagine a top flight coach thinking they could win a game being so one dimensional, against DLS or any other team for that matter.
Perhaps this might silence some of the SJS faithful who have long stated DLS has been running up the unbeaten streak against non SJS teams in northern California. I understand that most of Folsom’s team comes back next season, perhaps they might get a rematch with DLS in next December’s regional game and play better the second time around.
December 12th, 2012 at 10:37 am
does anybody know if coach barnes is up for any jobs that might be available
December 12th, 2012 at 10:41 am
So Arroyo was open and filled. Does anyone know of any other openings or ones already filled?
December 12th, 2012 at 10:56 am
DLS is returning Williams at QB, Taut at RB, and the RB who ran for 2 tds late in the game. They also have the o line coming back and d line also.
Folsom’s defense will get run over next year and the QB will still be running for his life.
No need to make the 68 mile trip up to Sac, they’re done honey.
December 12th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Hooper/Egu/Hutchings/Moffitt/Banks aren’t coming back.
December 12th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Williams, Allen, Taut, Griffin, Houston coming back-almost 30 returnees in all.
December 12th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
I stand corrected. 35 returning.
December 13th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
I don’t know how Folsom though that they had DLS figured out….Its going to take a real down grade of kids coming into DLS to set them selves up for a loss..As for SI…they should have done a lot better..but what it did show is the west bay catholic league is not as tough as we thought…
December 13th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Folsom took an all-time beating since their program has fostered the last 10 years. They will be back again the next 2 yrs or even further, however this kind of defeat sets a standard that previous DLS teams have issued to opponents, mainly Mater Dei, Poly, San Leandro, Bellarmine, Serra, Mitty, Pittsburg, Logan and EBAL schools. These kind of set backs can be defining moments for the future of these teams competing with DeLaSalle. The DLS mystic station can last a long, long time.