When a school interviews for a new superintendent, the general public knows the list of potential candidates.
When it's a football coach being hired, here comes the Bureau of Gridiron Security.
For example, Kingsley may or not hire a new football coach on Monday. Nobody is able to confirm as much, but it appears Josh Sellers is headed to Tennessee and not to Kingsley.
The previous Kingsley coach, Tim Wooer, left the Stags for a successful program at TC West.
Both of these recent openings show the inordinate amount of secrecy that apparently goes along with hiring a football coach these days.
TC West had nothing to report until calling a press conference for the following day. Even then they wouldn't say who it was, only where and when it was going to happen.
Kingsley won't talk about Wooer's successor until its school board meeting on Monday night. Now it appears the search may go on a little longer.
Whomever the new coach is at Kingsley, why all the secrecy?
One athletic director said it's because more people in the community know who the football coach is versus the superintendent.
That may be true, but then why not let the community members become a greater part of the process?
A member of the Kingsley school board said that the interviews were public, but at the same time, no school board goes out of its way to let the media or the taxpaying public know when they are being conducted.
So instead, community members go on message boards that seem to be the bane of every athletic director and administrator.
Sure, there's often a lot of bunk on MLive and other sites such as these. And the anonymity often gives people too many freedoms to spew forth too much.
But at least people are getting a chance to talk and converse about these football openings. And frequently the information is right on.
It sure beats all the non-information coming out of the schools and the human resources departments. Just because a school is looking into hiring a new football coach doesn't mean they have to go into double-secret mode.
A point often made with keeping the identity of a new football coach quiet is to protect the players at his current team. Or at the very least, the departing coach wants a chance to be the one to tell his players in person that he's departing.
Come on, do you really think the players -- or the public -- don't know what's going on?
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