{"id":4546,"date":"2020-05-14T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:31:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:31:16","slug":"tumultuous-turnover-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?p=4546","title":{"rendered":"Tumultuous Turnover at the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8-226x300.jpg?resize=226%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=768%2C1020&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=1157%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1157w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=1542%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1542w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=1140%2C1514&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?resize=552%2C733&amp;ssl=1 552w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE8.jpg?w=1701&amp;ssl=1 1701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4548\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9-226x300.jpg?resize=226%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=771%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=768%2C1020&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=1156%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1156w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=1542%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1542w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=1140%2C1514&amp;ssl=1 1140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?resize=552%2C733&amp;ssl=1 552w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PAGE9.jpg?w=1675&amp;ssl=1 1675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vince Burgos &amp; Colin Strang<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Squall<br \/>\nDexter HS<br \/>\n1st Place Division 3, News Writing<br \/>\nSports News Story<\/p>\n<p><b>JUDGING CRITERIA<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lead features interesting, important angle<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses colorful, lively style<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Avoids cliches, editorializing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Displays knowledge of sports; uses understandable terms<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shows research\/interviewing skills; emphasizes how &amp; why<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effective use of facts\/quotes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proper diction\/grammar; use of the third person<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unity\/coherence<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following a Tweet storm referencing the grounds that the Dexter high school men\u2019s varsity basketball coach Tim Cain was asked to resign, an odd situation arose that drew in many Dexter families. The drama online fed the fi re and press releases left and right encapsulated even more people into the scene. The view of many was that a coach who had three winning seasons in four years was asked to resign by Superintendent Chris Timmis. This lead to the question: why was the superintendent involved in a sports decisions instead of the Athletic Director? It also begged the question: after winning putting together a winning season in thre eout of the past four years, why was Cain asked to resign in the fi rst place? The next piece came out that the athletic director hadn\u2019t been the deliverer of the news due to having a son in the program. Arguably the most controversial news was that the Athletic director, Mike Bavineau, who is also the head coach of the women\u2019s varsity basketball team, was interested in the men\u2019s head coach position. Bavineau declined to comment on the speculation that Cain was fi red so he could slide into the men\u2019s coaching job. Principal Kit Moran was aware that Superintendent Chris Timmis was going to be having conversations with Cain following the 2018-2019 season, but was unaware of the decision asking Cain to resign. Moran learned of it the following day. \u201cOh boy,\u201d Moran said when asked about his reaction to the news. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that was going to happen.\u201d Bavineau called it a \u201cgroup decision\u201d based on the group that consisted of \u201cmyself, Principal Moran, and Dr. Timmis,\u201d in regards to Cain\u2019s forced resignation. \u201cI generally do not get involved in athletic programs in the level of detail that I became involved in with boys basketball unless the program is being poorly run and there are serious issues\/concerns,\u201d Timmis said in an April 10 statement. Freshman coach and varsity assistant Koji Vroom didn\u2019t feel Timmis was as involved as he stated. \u201cThat hasn\u2019t been a thing since I\u2019ve been here,\u201d said Vroom, who has been on staff for two years. \u201cI know there was a meeting between Timmis and Cain, and a couple parents had a meeting in Cain\u2019s fi rst year, but basically everything was cleaned up after that and there was no issue between parents.\u201d A few basketball players interviewed opted to remain anonymous due to their continued athletic career as DHS basketball players. \u201cI didn\u2019t really like how it was handled because they didn\u2019t really tell us about our coach being fi red,\u201d a varsity basketball player said, adding that he felt the players were kept too much in the dark during the process. \u201cThey didn\u2019t even tell us. They didn\u2019t email our parents. They didn\u2019t do anything about that and that just seems kinda screwed up.\u201d Timmis regrets how the players feel, but he downplays the coaching change being atypical. \u201cIt was just a standard change in direction,\u201d he said. \u201cThe whole situation was blown out of the water and way out of proportion.\u201d People, including coach Cain, took to Twitter and began bombarding the school district, Bavineau, and Timmis after Cain was forced to step down. The situation seemed anything but typical. Timmis took full responsibility for bypassing the Athletic Director and fi ring Cain himself. The culmination of reasons was more than what was initially released, and Timmis said he couldn\u2019t be more specifi c. He did state, however, that it wasn\u2019t because of wins and losses or the team\u2019s record (6-15) this past season. The district expects varsity coaches of any sports to show an interest and to help out with younger programs, including middle school and even community education teams. This \u201ctrickle down\u201d effect of sports programs, Timmis said, was not being followed. From this point, due to the nature of men\u2019s basketball being a \u201chigh profi le sport,\u201d Moran knew he needed to be involved in the process, especially considering he \u201cassumed Bav would be interested in the boys\u2019 job.\u201d Moran was appointed to lead the managing of the interview committee and the application process. After interviewing at least four candidates, Bavineau and Jason Ruston, an varsity assistant coach at Saline, were the two fi nalists. Shortly after the search was narrowed down to two, a Twitter account (@AntWright) released the results of a parent-conducted survey by parents of women\u2019s basketball players that were harsh in the evaluation of Bavineau as the women\u2019s coach. It didn\u2019t affect the interview process as both fi nalists held monitored practices with members of the team as part of the interview process. On May 8, following a tense week of emotions, Moran sent an email to team parents that Rushton was named the new varsity coach. In the email, Rushton opened up his coaching career as a Dreadnaught with the following statement:\u201cI believe that having a championship mindset and work ethic is the key to success.\u201d Players have voiced their thoughts and are just ready to focus on basketball again. \u201c I\u2019m excited,\u201d junior Bobby Pnacek said. \u201cI think we will be good next season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,69],"tags":[175,22],"class_list":["post-4546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","category-nw","category-sportsnewsstory","tag-2019-20","tag-division3","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joel Beeker","author_link":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/?author=9"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6K0n6-1bk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acutabove.mipamsu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}