[Luke The Drifter]

How much control does one person really need over a school's atheletic program??? It is slowly but surely turning into a DICTATORSHIP at AC!!!! Is it not enough that Col. Maynard already holds the title as AD and volleyball head coach?? Where will he find the time to dedicate himself to the added Girls HEAD basketball coach? I guess the next thing on his list will be Boy's Basketball Coach, then who knows.. maybe even principal of the school.

I agree completely! but the promblem starts with the administration at AC, not Col. Maynard (He's just a pupet of the administration --- a "Yes Man" sort of speak) and as long as the powers that be continue to look the other way the administration at AC will continue to smack down, and mistreat anyone who defies them in anyway. Col. Maynard is just taking advantage of the current situation! Your giving him way too much credit, without this current administration Col. Maynard would be a little fish in a big pond. He's not responsible!

Look for example at what happen to Ronnie Patton. He won the first ever 15th regional baseball title and was fired 8 days later becasue of a parent complaint. At least that was the official excuse he was given. Oh, by the way he was replaced by the husband of a SBMD member.

The administration has done everything they could do to run off Johnny Martin. Who is one of the most successful basketball coaches in 15th region history. They fired him as AD, Track coach, and department chair, in an attempt to get rid of him.

Now the administration has basically held a coaching job for M. Martin the last two or three years even though it is a fact that he was dismissed from teaching by not having the proper certification. What kind of a message does that send about the administartion. Well I'll tell you "They could care less how qualified you are, how good of a coach you are, how hard you work, or anything else as long as your in the click" UMMMM --- wonder who the next boys coach will be when they finally run Johnny Martin off?

These things will continue to happen at AC as long as the powers that be let them happen! Hopefully, with a new superintentent soon, whoever that may be, they will make the administration at AC justify their decisions and hold them responsible for the way they treat the people who have dedicated so much of their time and energy to the school and community. Hopefully, they will also ensure people are treated fairly at AC.