Shakeup at College Park

[Streak One]

After just four games, College Park has fired Joe Tenorio.

Joe Bautista and Bill Kepler will run the program the rest of the year.

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_28854447/college-park-dismisses-football-coach

 

[MC415]

Stupid move by CP

 

[mshNASTY]

After just four games, College Park has fired Joe Tenorio.

Joe Bautista and Bill Kepler will run the program the rest of the year.

http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_28854447/college-park-dismisses-football-coach

Saw a coach this weekend and the conversation turned to CP and Tenario. I was asked if something happened over there because CP is running the same exact stuff they've been running under Kepler the past 25 years since the beginning of the season. I didn't have any answers for him but now it seems like it was a valid question.

 

[beatenpath2]

Where is the logic in this for CP, they did have a difficult preseason and a harder one than most teams. Regardless, you might as well finish out the season than go just 4 games. Dumb move by CP

 

[ncscalfootball]

Sad to hear about this for Joe Tenorio...great teams took a licking before they became powerhouses!

 

[observer22]

"Tenorio said he may have ruffled too many feathers by not hiring incumbent assistants and trying to incorporate his style of play."

That was my understanding, that he ruffled a lot of Falcon feathers by letting go long term assistant coaches and his coaching style is much different than Kepler's. The bar has been raised in the DVAL due to CVC going Charter and I'm sure losing your first 4 games doesn't help team morale or generate community support. Still hard to fathon they let him go in mid season. There must be more to it than Hurtado or Tenorio wanted to tell the press. I thought he was a good hire when Kepler retired too, but there are just far too many politics in high school sports these days, and you've got to please a wide range of people.

 

[MtEdenHomer]

Stupid move. College Park has gone 65-54-1 over the past ten years under Kepler. Tenorio has been 74-26 at Encinal. AND that's only in 8 years! Admin didn't support a winner.

 

[Streak One]

The administration had to know they were getting a different coaching style in Tenorio, who won consistently at Encinal despite low numbers. This smells of parent influence not liking a more harsh coaching style.

 

[1315]

Outsiders ease their viewpoint by hypothesizing the admins had no spine or that influential/squeaky wheel parents flexed their connections within the team and its future. Isn't it very possible that the captains or at least some of the leaders on the roster were interviewed and asked their opinions? Principals and ADs are not as nefarious, nor short sighted as often relayed. Kids do not necessarily equate harder work ethic as "harsh." An early tenure/season dismissal certainly looks as if something was becoming toxic. Recalling the right-before-playoff dismissal in Danville, the press never let out the exact reason. Justified? On many accounts, yes. Yet, as mine used to tell me, "you're not on the team."

 

[observer22]

More from today's CC Times:

College Park CHANGE: The Falcons will come out of their bye week with a new coach, and another familiar face helping out. College Park fired first-year head coach Joe Tenorio on Monday, though athletic director Lance Hurtado declined to comment as to why.
The development came after College Park started 0-4. The Falcons return to action Oct. 2 against Deer Valley.
Longtime assistant Joe Bautista, the only holdover from former head coach Bill Kepler's crew, was named interim head coach, Hurtado said. Bautista is a College Park graduate who teaches physical education at the school.
Kepler is back on the sidelines and at practices for what he called "a six-week thing" after retiring following last season.
Tenorio, whose tenure at Encinal from 2006-13 included a North Coast Section Division 3 title in 2008, cited differences with College Park parents and his desire to make drastic changes as reasons behind his dismissal.
"This is probably one of the weirdest situations, because I didn't have any issues with the kids and wish them all the best," Tenorio said Monday.


I understand that some of the "drastic changes" included letting go long term coaches that had been on the staff for 20+ years without so much as an interview, but I don't think he was just trying to get the kids to work harder. Bautista was evidently the only coach on all 3 levels who was kept. As 1315 indicates, the kids on the team know the real story, which the media may never be privy to. Tenorio cited differences with the parents, but may not be inclined to discuss the exact reasons for his dismissal. It's too bad because I think he would have eventually made an impact on that program, but he sure got off on the wrong foot. He will show up somewhere else in a few years and hopefully be successful. In the meantime, there is an opening at CP for next season.