Wood junior guard Jalil Bethea earned Catholic League Player of the Year honors and is being recruited by the likes of Syracuse and UCLA, while Xzayvier Brown is a high-level senior guard headed to St. Joseph's. Clubs and . In the role of head coach, you cant make everyone happy all the time. McNesby coached the sons and relatives of his former teammates at Roman Catholic. Our goal is to create the well-rounded athlete, one who understands sport from the mental and physical perspectives. It was 13 years ago that McNesby, several years a Roman assistant coach, succeeded longtime Roman coach Dennis Seddon as the Cahillites courtside leader. Your email address will not be published. (Ed. Matt Griffin - Assistant Coach - Men's Basketball Coaches 1 seed Kansas. Hes done what we want to do before. They won that night and his father died two months later. Good things happen to good people.. The scoreboard, stuck on zero for the visiting team until the games final quarter, wasnt broken. He probably wouldnt look at it like this, but, given the trust he has for his new boss, Griffin might have less pressure with this latest move. "We're going to come and compete every night. Not bad for a guy from the neighborhood. Coach Kirck made mistakes in how he handled the game last night, but enough with the character assassination, Mr. Shea said. Roman Catholic's second-leading scorer is 6-7 sophomore forward Shareef Jackson, who averages 10.7 points per game. Jason Shea, the head coach of the boys basketball team at Notre Dame High School in West Haven, where Mr. Kirck had previously worked, defended him Tuesday on Twitter. (Photo: Josh Verlin/CoBL) In 1990, the Cahillites beat La Salle, in overtime, on a late shot by a future NFL Hall of Famer, Marvin Harrison. I was always a people pleaser. Is our enrollment good enough? Three of his assistant coaches Bill Goebig, Kyle Bernard and Mike Wild are all still on staff, as is team statistician and local hoops figure Tom Hock McKenna. Its something [that] Ive never seen before at the high school level, Devenney said about the game day experience at Neumann-Goretti. There was never much doubt in their ongoing talks about where Killings would eventually end up well, maybe the where. 1) (April 28), 2023 Hoop Group Spring Jam Fest Day 1 Standouts (April 28), Plymouth Whitemarsh Spring League Notebook (Thurs., April 27), Jay Ems Northeast Basketball League (NEBL) 2023 Schedule, GUAA/Live at the Nook Notebook (Pt. 1 Neumann-Goretti 86, Archbishop Carroll 51 No. The Cahillites saw a great deal of success with Griffin heading the program, and the departure of coach in a winning program can be an obstacle to deal with in some cases. Lange made his approval very clear on the other end of the phone. Arrigale was ready and applied for the job. Roman Catholic's Xzavier Brown '23 has emerged as the finest pure point guard in the Greater Philadelphia region . Through their abilities, these Christian NBA players glorify God. He had pitched the idea of having Griffin join his staff with the Great Danes for a few weeks, as the deal evolved from more of a possibility to a reality. Those individual awards? Cardinal Dougherty faced similar issues and only had 642 students enrolled when it closed. Fandom is passed down through generations. Prior [continue reading], Lawncrest resident Rick Heydt is entering his 11th year coaching in the Fox Chase Roller Hockeyleague. Hes been there before. As he pulled into the fabled school at the corner of Broad and Vine Streets, he received a call from an old friend: riffin will step down as Roman Catholics head coach and athletic director, effective April 1, and become an assistant on Killings staff at Albany. Killings had just been named the new head coach at the University of Albany as the Cahillites and Vikings played the latest installment of the Philadelphia Catholic League final, this time at Cardinal OHara. Killings told him that for open gyms, college coaches might know who theyre coming to watch, but might not have seen that player yet, wouldnt recognize him, or they might see someone younger who catches their eye. Roman has the guards and the wings with scoring prowess. McNesby hadnt thought much about coaching since his departure, though hed been around his former program from time to time. Had the opportunity opened up a year earlier, hes still not sure he would have jumped at it; had it been any other school, it might not have caught his interest. For a program that has churned out the likes of Eddie Griffin, Marc Jackson, Rasul Butler and Maalik Wayns, Griffin believed any of his players could reach their potential if they followed his coaching model. One transfer picked up already out of the portal, Paul Newman, is a Roman grad, but graduated just before Griffin took over. 19.1 points and scored 30 against Cardinal OHara, and 6-1 sophomoreXzayvier Brown, who avg. He's also one of Philly's greatest hoops coaches. But the lopsided result of the high school girls basketball game in Connecticut this week might have made even Bobby Knight blanch the final score between Sacred Heart Academy and Lyman Hall High School was 92-4. This really did mean something to these guys.