Couple days late on this, but Emmaus announced they've hired Harold Fairclough to be their next head coach.
Fairclough was most recently on staff at Moravian after two years as an assistant at Whitehall, but the brightest line on his resume is his six years as the head coach at Allentown Central Catholic, where he coached the 2010 3A State Champs. He's an alum of ACC where he played linebacker for the 1993 3A State Champs and was a DII All American at Susquehanna.
He's announced that Matt Senneca, former Penn State quarterback and ACC's QB for their 1998 state title, will join him on staff. He was most recently the head coach at Wilson and was the OC and quarterbacks coach at Liberty when they won the 2008 state title. Matt's father Sam, the DC on the ACC teams of the 1990s, recent DC at Parkland, and kind of an institution in local athletics, will also be on staff.
Emmaus has a very strong athletics program, but had largely been a no factor in football forever (though weirdly, has a disproportionate amount of alums who played in the NFL, including recent 1st Round pick Kevin White and former Pro Bowlers Keith Dorney and John Spagnola). The school is the 13th biggest in the state (between Easton and Cumberland Valley) and has a significant amount of tax base and local wealth. There at certainly athletes walking around the school, and the thought here is with a culture change, they could be a very good program.
In his Morning Call column, Keith Groller noted that Parkland was a non-factor in football from the formation of the East Penn Conference until they brought in Rich Snisack in 1995, who for all intent and purposes created Parkland football. Like Snisack, Fairclough is a tough, Allentown kid who already has a great coaching resume. If he can't do it at Emmaus, it may not be able to be done.
Fairclough was most recently on staff at Moravian after two years as an assistant at Whitehall, but the brightest line on his resume is his six years as the head coach at Allentown Central Catholic, where he coached the 2010 3A State Champs. He's an alum of ACC where he played linebacker for the 1993 3A State Champs and was a DII All American at Susquehanna.
He's announced that Matt Senneca, former Penn State quarterback and ACC's QB for their 1998 state title, will join him on staff. He was most recently the head coach at Wilson and was the OC and quarterbacks coach at Liberty when they won the 2008 state title. Matt's father Sam, the DC on the ACC teams of the 1990s, recent DC at Parkland, and kind of an institution in local athletics, will also be on staff.
Emmaus has a very strong athletics program, but had largely been a no factor in football forever (though weirdly, has a disproportionate amount of alums who played in the NFL, including recent 1st Round pick Kevin White and former Pro Bowlers Keith Dorney and John Spagnola). The school is the 13th biggest in the state (between Easton and Cumberland Valley) and has a significant amount of tax base and local wealth. There at certainly athletes walking around the school, and the thought here is with a culture change, they could be a very good program.
In his Morning Call column, Keith Groller noted that Parkland was a non-factor in football from the formation of the East Penn Conference until they brought in Rich Snisack in 1995, who for all intent and purposes created Parkland football. Like Snisack, Fairclough is a tough, Allentown kid who already has a great coaching resume. If he can't do it at Emmaus, it may not be able to be done.