O’Connor Still Coaching, While WV Looks For Replacement;
3 Highly-Qualified WV Assistants Viewed As Possible Successors
Source: The Wayne Today
Even though Brian O’Connor acknowledges that his future as the Wayne Valley football coach is very much in doubt, he continues to carry himself as if he will in fact be the team’s coach in 2014 and beyond.
Just before Christmas, O’Connor met with Superintendent Raymond Gonzalez and then-district interim athletic director Mike Miello and was informed that his head coaching contract would not be renewed for 2014.
The head coaching job was then posted as vacant on the Wayne Board of Education site shortly after New Years Day. O’Connor was also told that he could apply for his job. He did so last week.
"I don’t know what my future as the Wayne Valley football coach holds,” O’Connor said recently at the post season football dinner at the Brownstone in Paterson. “What I do know is that high school football now requires a year-long commitment. I am still the coach and I will continue to see my responsibilities though – hopefully through next year and beyond. If not, I’ll see my responsibilities through the time a successor has been named.”
O’Connor’s remarks were met with a rousing, 5-minute standing ovation from players, coaches and most parents.
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