To the Editor:
I'd like to express my disappointment in Kevin Gordon's sports opinion column published July 23 regarding the hiring of Gary Gardner as Bowling Green High School's head basketball coach. In that column Kevin asks his readers to forget that "Gardner's hiring may have been a done deal before Coach Von Graffin was non-renewed, to forget Gardner may have been promised an administrator's position at some point, to forget that more qualified candidates may have been interested in the job."
Kevin, in stirring up the gossip, innuendo, and rumors surrounding Coach Graffin's dismissal, you publicize those things to the wider audience of Sentinel readers. That's not a way to cause people to forget them.
In the interest of journalistic integrity and responsibility, the question that needs to be answered is why Von Graffin, a hard-working, respected, and successful coach, was not renewed? Superintendent Ann McVey's answer of wanting to move in another direction is no answer at all. The question that begs an answer is why. (If, as you urge in your column, we should judge Gary Gardner based on the team's results on the court, why in the world would Coach Graffin have been let go, when his teams' results on the court have been unquestionably successful.)
I'd like to express my disappointment in Kevin Gordon's sports opinion column published July 23 regarding the hiring of Gary Gardner as Bowling Green High School's head basketball coach. In that column Kevin asks his readers to forget that "Gardner's hiring may have been a done deal before Coach Von Graffin was non-renewed, to forget Gardner may have been promised an administrator's position at some point, to forget that more qualified candidates may have been interested in the job."
Kevin, in stirring up the gossip, innuendo, and rumors surrounding Coach Graffin's dismissal, you publicize those things to the wider audience of Sentinel readers. That's not a way to cause people to forget them.
In the interest of journalistic integrity and responsibility, the question that needs to be answered is why Von Graffin, a hard-working, respected, and successful coach, was not renewed? Superintendent Ann McVey's answer of wanting to move in another direction is no answer at all. The question that begs an answer is why. (If, as you urge in your column, we should judge Gary Gardner based on the team's results on the court, why in the world would Coach Graffin have been let go, when his teams' results on the court have been unquestionably successful.)