HS FOOT: Crespi could announce new coach any moment

The interview process ended last night for the coaching position at Crespi in Encino, and a new coach could be named as early as today -- Friday the latest -- according to Crespi spokesman Paul Rawate.

There has been much speculation about whom the new coach will be, and it's my guess it's going to be Jon Mack, the former St. Bonaventure High coach who is now at Ventura College.

Rawate said today he could neither confirm nor deny Mack won the job, but I know from a second Crespi source that Mack has applied.

Whomever gets the job should feel pressure to win. Former coach Jeremiah Ross was forced out in December after going 5-5 and failing to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year after coaching Crespi to the Pac 5 final in 2007.

-- Gerry Gittelson