Parents petitioning to oust Eastwood football head coach
Eastwood High School parents have found yet another target for their disapproval within Trooper athletics.
Last spring, parents were up in arms against varsity girls basketball coach Endi Vargas, and a year earlier, they tried getting boys basketball coach Gary Pippen removed.
Both coaches got to keep their jobs.
This time, it's football head coach Wade Ardoin.
And as they did with Pippen, the parents reportedly are circulating a petition asking for Ardoin's removal.
I got a call from a concerned parent today informing me of the petition and their efforts to have Ardoin relieved of his head coaching duties.
I won't go into detail of the conversation other than to say that this parent felt Ardoin wasn't fulfilling his duties as a head coach.
When I called the Ysleta Independent School District, public relations director Patricia Ayala said she hadn't heard anything "officially from parents" about a petition.
When asked whether Ardoin would be re-evaluated, she replied, "Right now, the only thing I understand is that every coach always is evaluated at the end of the season."
And whether there would be any upcoming meetings involving Ardoin, "Not to my knowledge," she said.
I called Ardoin and YISD athletics director Mike Williams and left voice messages, but my calls were not returned as of 8:06 p.m. today (Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008).
I can imagine that Eastwood football's losing record this season and the previous two years has much to do with the effort to oust the longtime Trooper coach.
For some background, the 50-year-old Ardoin has been at Eastwood 25 years and is in his 10th season as football head coach.
He holds a 38-60 overall record leading up to Friday's home game against Americas.
Eastwood's last two playoff appearances were in 2005 and 1999.
Here's how Eastwood has fared during the regular season over the past four seasons:
2008: 0-6 (0-4 in District 1-5A).
2007: 2-8 (1-8).
2006: 3-7 (2-6).
2005: 6-4 (4-3), playoffs.
No doubt we're going to hear much, much more on this issue, as we did for so many weeks with Pippen and Vargas ...

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