South hires a girls basketball coach
June 6, 2008 @ 10:01 a.m. by Joannaby joanna
South has hired Ryan Becker as its girls basketball coach. Becker replaces Mike Helmer, who is now the Butler Community College women’s coach.
Becker spent the past three seasons at Columbus, a Class 4A school, In March 2007 Columbus advanced to the 4A tournament but lost in the first round in double overtime to Colby, the eventual winner.
He also coached at Herndon, where he was the boys and girls coach.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Is there a reason no assistant was hired, that seems to be the trend around the rest of the city and even at South where White was promoted from the assistant position? It seems that out of all the programs who have hired assistants this spring, that the South girls have had the most success the last few years, yet no this is the one program that brings in a new coach.
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
This is the one hire that makes sense. Bring in someone with head coaching experience. not someone with 2 years as an assistant and one as a volunteer coach like White was. This a 6A school and the best they can do is a guy with 3 years experience total. I don’t care how much biddy ball or Mayb he has coached everyone is trying to schedule South right now in boys basketball.
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June 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am
chibears, I really don’t think that teams will be trying to schedule South simply because of an inexperienced head coach. The fact that the team lost most of its players from last year? That would be a good reason.
getitdone, the South girls assistant is at East as the head coach, taking over for Charles Williams.
I understand why most people prefer someone with head coaching experience, but I do believe that there are those who would do the job well but haven’t been given a chance because they have never been a head coach. How do you get that experience?
I also understand why administrations like to hire an assistant — they already know the system, the school, the tradition, the players. That’s pretty invaluable.
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June 11th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
A little overstatement. I should have said with the players they lost and a new coach I could see teams looking forward to playing them this year. I agree with another post who said they hope that they at least have more discipline this year and don’t lead the league in technicals. Image how good they would have been if they didn’t give up 2-4 points a game with free throws because they couldn’t keep their mouths shut.
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