Looks like many Catholic schools looking for coaches? Egan, Carrol, Wood, FJ! Who's going where? Which school has most to offer?
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FJ is the least attractive. Being in catholic league red isn’t helpful.
I agree. Nase is alumni maybe he lands FJ and makes it interesting. Egan would be intriguing.
Goettner gets the interim title removed and is officially the head coach at Wood.
Rob Melosky retired at Allentown Central Catholic. Never really could get traction there after he replaced McGorry - I think Rob’s health has effectively ended his time as an elite coach. Hard to believe 2002 was as long ago as it was, also hard to believe he was just 33 with a whole career in front of him when he won it all at Parkland. Burn hot, burn fast.
They replaced him with Jacob Reichard, who has been on Harold Fairclough’s staff at Emmaus as the linebackers coach. Played at Central (2005 graduate I think?). He was the offensive line coach as a very young assistant at ACC on Fairclough’s staff when they won the state title in 2010. Has either been at ACC or with Fairclough at Emmaus his whole career.
We’ve seen ACC as a real power (with Jim Morgan’s in the 1990s and under Fairclough in the early 2010s), but they’ve struggled to find consistent excellence and lost both of those elite coaches to outside circumstances around their teaching careers. I have no read on Reichard as a candidate.
They replaced him with Jacob Reichard, who has been on Harold Fairclough’s staff at Emmaus as the linebackers coach. Played at Central (2005 graduate I think?). He was the offensive line coach as a very young assistant at ACC on Fairclough’s staff when they won the state title in 2010. Has either been at ACC or with Fairclough at Emmaus his whole career.
We’ve seen ACC as a real power (with Jim Morgan’s in the 1990s and under Fairclough in the early 2010s), but they’ve struggled to find consistent excellence and lost both of those elite coaches to outside circumstances around their teaching careers. I have no read on Reichard as a candidate.
I understand Coach Wilmot is retiring (I haven't dug too deep of late but that's what I have heard).
I've also heard a few names mentioned as possibilities but have been sworn to secrecy (yikes),
I've also heard a few names mentioned as possibilities but have been sworn to secrecy (yikes),
There was one staff member who was very openly telling people this year that he was already the designated successor. (Going back to the summer) We shall see.
I did post before that Coach Wilmot was with the team longer than any other coach as he started with the school in 1995 and continued through to 2024 -- 30 years!!! That saw him participate as an assistant or head coach in more games than any other man -- 348 total games out of the 990 the 'Skins have played since the 1928 season kicked it all off.
The overall while he was with the club is 234-114 or just shy of a 67% winning percentage over three decades (not bad). His overall is 64-42 while he was the head honcho. And although the last four years were a bit lackluster from 2015 through 2019 Neshaminy posted a 38-11 record under his lead with three SOL Division championships and some nice runs in the playoffs.
Change can be good even though he'll be missed.
The overall while he was with the club is 234-114 or just shy of a 67% winning percentage over three decades (not bad). His overall is 64-42 while he was the head honcho. And although the last four years were a bit lackluster from 2015 through 2019 Neshaminy posted a 38-11 record under his lead with three SOL Division championships and some nice runs in the playoffs.
Change can be good even though he'll be missed.
The Archbishop Carroll football team has
found its man.
Carroll hired Stephen Honick ‘17 as the ninth head coach in school history and fourth since the firing of legendary head man Dan Bielli back in 2010.
Honick, statistically one of the best quarterbacks in Carroll history, played for the Patriots from 2013 to 2016. In that time, under coaches Joe Powel and Dan Connor, the team went an underwhelming 9-32 while Honick established himself as one of the best quarterbacks around by his senior season.
Honick, now four years removed from his time at West Chester University, where he served as a student assistant, will be one of the youngest head coaches in the area. The former Golden Ram also spent his first two years of college at Ursinus, where he played quarterback for the Bears.
Honick was eventually promoted to quarterbacks coach at West Chester while also spending time with Next Level Greats 7v7 as head coach and offensive coordinator for their 13u team. Honick’s last stop was as a graduate assistant at Division I Temple University, a position he assumed back in 2022.
He will now be tasked with turning around a Carroll program that hasn’t seen sustained success since the early 2000s under Bielli, who won three consecutive Philadelphia Catholic League titles in 2000, 2001, and 2002. The team is coming off of five consecutive losing seasons.
Honick inherits a team plagued by inconsistencies, on-field struggles, and mounting rumors of transfers. Some have already taken place. Star wideout Ty Ty Mattison, a sophomore, announced he’d be transferring to Northeast high school for the 2025 season.
With the news of Honick’s hiring now official, offseason workouts, which have trudged on in the absence of a head man, should resume as planned for the winter while Honick prepares his team for the 2025 campaign, which kicks off Aug. 22 at William Tennent High School in Warminster, Bucks County.
found its man.
Carroll hired Stephen Honick ‘17 as the ninth head coach in school history and fourth since the firing of legendary head man Dan Bielli back in 2010.
Honick, statistically one of the best quarterbacks in Carroll history, played for the Patriots from 2013 to 2016. In that time, under coaches Joe Powel and Dan Connor, the team went an underwhelming 9-32 while Honick established himself as one of the best quarterbacks around by his senior season.
Honick, now four years removed from his time at West Chester University, where he served as a student assistant, will be one of the youngest head coaches in the area. The former Golden Ram also spent his first two years of college at Ursinus, where he played quarterback for the Bears.
Honick was eventually promoted to quarterbacks coach at West Chester while also spending time with Next Level Greats 7v7 as head coach and offensive coordinator for their 13u team. Honick’s last stop was as a graduate assistant at Division I Temple University, a position he assumed back in 2022.
He will now be tasked with turning around a Carroll program that hasn’t seen sustained success since the early 2000s under Bielli, who won three consecutive Philadelphia Catholic League titles in 2000, 2001, and 2002. The team is coming off of five consecutive losing seasons.
Honick inherits a team plagued by inconsistencies, on-field struggles, and mounting rumors of transfers. Some have already taken place. Star wideout Ty Ty Mattison, a sophomore, announced he’d be transferring to Northeast high school for the 2025 season.
With the news of Honick’s hiring now official, offseason workouts, which have trudged on in the absence of a head man, should resume as planned for the winter while Honick prepares his team for the 2025 campaign, which kicks off Aug. 22 at William Tennent High School in Warminster, Bucks County.
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