I'll be honest old rider, with the amount of blacks, and especially black kids who actually have played for him, that are in support of him, I don't think Jackson, Sharpton or the NAACP would touch this situation with a ten foot pole. I could be wrong, but I really don't think they would.

GoChiefs;1068838 wrote:I'd say it's highly likely it's being considered. There is a LOT of ticked off people right now because he was fired. Even the students are wanting him back.

I hope that's the case. I wonder that if he is reinstated, it will be under some "conditions," so that everyone can say they got satisfaction.

if things in canton are like in warren theres probably a group of a few people pulling the strings and they could care less about the students or the fans and who they prefer as coach??

skank;1068421 wrote:Listen to THIS joke. McKinley has put together a committee to hire a new coach....There are sixteen, (16), people on the committee. Some are administration, a few are ex players, Zach Campbell & mike Doss, some are community members.

Sixteen?

And there are 2 alternates if for some reason any of the 16 are unable to vote.

Right apple, one of the alternates is Carlos McClain, a former player who is one of the most outpsoken critics of RJ there is.

Neither Alternate will be able to vote if it comes down to it though.

I apologize for not being able to keep up with this as I had just started substitute teaching in the area... And let's be honest this mess is a lot to deal with. McKinkey is hurting right now and needs To be fixed in a timely manor in order to hopefully salvage a season with a winning record with the schedule I've seen we have

Ok alum, there was supposed to be a "secret' meeting today with the school board at 2:30, they supposedly pushed it back to 4 or 4:30, what are they discussing?

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By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Jan 29, 2012 @ 07:00 AM
Last update Jan 30, 2012 @ 10:17 AM
CANTON —
The superintendent of Canton City Schools and members of its board of education should not have been surprised the night Ron Johnson was fired as McKinley High School’s football coach.
Emails in the five weeks before the Jan. 9 vote show Superintendent Michele Evans and some board members discussing how to time a vote on renewing the coach’s contract to avoid controversy.
From the context of the emails, obtained by The Repository in response to a public records request, it is clear some board members were signaling their opposition to Johnson as early as a month before the vote.
Later emails, sent three days before the vote, indicated more strongly that Johnson could be fired.
And one incoming board member openly declared her opposition to Johnson a few hours before the vote.
Immediately after Johnson was fired, Evans said she had had no idea how the board would vote on her recommendation to renew Johnson’s contract. Presented with the emails on Friday, Evans continued to express her surprise at the outcome.
The Johnson vote, she said, was the first time in her five years as superintendent that a board did not take her recommendation on a personnel matter.
“We’ve had discussions on people in the past,” Evans said in an interview. “I have board meetings once a month for five years. That’s 60 board meetings, and this was a first for me.”
The emails in question were those sent by Evans and past and current board members from November through the Jan. 9 vote.
• • •
Johnson’s contract saga goes back to last spring, when Evans recommended him for a three-year continuing teaching contract. Officially, Johnson is employed as a teacher under one contract that pays him $62,397. He had a supplemental contract as coach paying an additional $8,079.
In April, his teaching contract came before the board of education — made up then of Wilbur Allen III, Jennifer Keaton, Richard Milligan, Nadine McIlwain and Eric Resnick. Evans recommended approval.
The board split 2-2 on the teaching contract, with McIlwain absent, which resulted in approving the contract. Ohio law requires a super majority (four of five votes) to overturn a superintendent’s recommendation for teaching contracts. A simple majority is needed for supplemental contracts, such as those given to coaches.
Even then, Johnson was not guaranteed to return as McKinley’s football coach. His supplemental contract for the 2011 season did not come before the board until June, to allow time for his supervisor, Canton City Schools Director of Physical Activities Lynn Wafler, to evaluate him. Johnson received generally high marks on his evaluation

This thing just keeps getting more and more interesting...but really sad for the program. What a mess!

Any word on the "secret meeting" at CMHS yesterday?

Don't know how the meeting went ,but they republished the need for a head coach on the Ohsaa website.

Didnt hear anything about the meeting yet... your right it is a mess.. but they are probably trying to cover themselves since Johnson hired an attorney

also interesting is that ROn Johnson is on the list of applicants for McKinleys head Coaching job. Along with 19 others...

http://fridaynightohio.com/news/few-familiar-names-initial-list-applicants-mckinley-job

No offense Alum, but that's a sorry list of candidates. I'm sure there are good coaches in there, but no real names jump out at you.

This goes to show you what most of the top notch head coaches think of working for, and with, this current school board. The top tier guys dont wanna deal with the stupid type of BS going on there now.

I agree the list is bad especially when Antonio Hall is on the list. But in other news Tyler Foster is going to Ohio Dominican.... which is bad because i bet as a wide receiver he could have been playing big ten, mac, or something in DI

skank;1073581 wrote:No offense Alum, but that's a sorry list of candidates. I'm sure there are good coaches in there, but no real names jump out at you.

My first thought too. Very telling when ZERO local head coaches (at least none that ive heard of) applied.

skank;1073581 wrote:No offense Alum, but that's a sorry list of candidates. I'm sure there are good coaches in there, but no real names jump out at you.

The one name that jumped out at me was Robert Lee II. With a name like that, you can just imagine what it would do for the racial tensions surrounding the issue!

(For those of you who were asleep in your US History class, Robert E. Lee was the top general of the Confederate army in the Civil War).

^^^^^^ someone bringing intellagence into a thread on the OC? SMH what has this world come to. Lol

Or intelligence even.

As of today the canton City Schools BOE has gone after another person. Today during the closed meeting from what the news on canton repository say and The CCS Super Intendent has Resigned. To me this is the same agenda they had for Johnson. Things are just heading downhill now.

Regarding the list......If that's the Tyrrell I know of, he's an Ursuline and YSU grad, and was the HC at St. Thomas Aquinas for a bit. I think he's a HC down in south Florida right now.

McKAlumni07;1077705 wrote:As of today the canton City Schools BOE has gone after another person. Today during the closed meeting from what the news on canton repository say and The CCS Super Intendent has Resigned. To me this is the same agenda they had for Johnson. Things are just heading downhill now.

I don't know if I'd call your Super resigning "Heading downhill". It may just be a step in the right direction.

skank;1077794 wrote:I don't know if I'd call your Super resigning "Heading downhill". It may just be a step in the right direction.

The Canton BOE is going to have their hands full hiring a Supt and head football coach! Time will tell on what direction they are taking this system!! Any bets on what the CCS will look like next year at this time? Better or Worse?

Red Right 21;1077828 wrote:The Canton BOE is going to have their hands full hiring a Supt and head football coach! Time will tell on what direction they are taking this system!! Any bets on what the CCS will look like next year at this time? Better or Worse?

Not an insider here, but my opinion is they should have kept the coach and tossed the Super. This woman has been trouble before.