Enos' departure leaves questions up in the air
Daryl Enos won't be coaching his hometown Marion High School girls' basketball team next season.
I'm not really sure of the reason, but I know I will miss him as a coach.
For the past month it's bothered me a bit knowing he won't be back.
It has nothing to do with his successor. I don't know Randy Savage, but he seems like a good guy.
It just seems funny that one minute Enos was the coach, and then all of a sudden he wasn't.
No explanation, no reasoning.
Just gone.
Marion-Florence USD 408 superintendent Lee Leiker said executive session topics cannot be discussed during open meetings, and that he could not comment for the paper.
However, during an April board meeting, two sets of parents who have girls returning to play basketball next season expressed their support for Enos.
After they backed Enos with their words, the board's only response was a thank you.
During a May special meeting, the board accepted, by a vote of 6-0, all supplemental position for the 2007-08 school year.
Enos' name had been replaced with Savages'.
It's no secret Enos' teams have struggled the past few years, but a lot of that had to do with playing in one of the toughest middle-class leagues in the state.
It is starting to seem like it's a secret why he won't be returning.
It couldn't have had anything to do with his desire to win, or at least his desire for his players to try their best to win. It was evident in our interviews after games.
Daryl always was willing to talk, and talk candidly. Even after losses when he was upset, he didn't just whine about losing, he talked about what needed to be done to make his team better.
He cared.
I always looked forward to those interviews because I knew I would get the truth, even if it wasn't always pretty.
Recently, it doesn't seem like it's been pretty for Enos. I don't know what happened, but what bugs me is the lack of information.
When someone in a prominent position is let go without any explanation to the public it makes you wonder.
Was it his team's record? Did he do something wrong? Was the district just ready for a change?
We don't know.
What we do know is MHS is without a good coach and a good man.
It would just be nice to find out why.
