Kirk Diego, the longest tenured football coach in the Moore League, was informed earlier today that he will not be back with the Millikan High team next season.
Wins and losses played a part in the decision.
The Rams have had a real slide the past two years, going 1-9 last year and 1-8 so far this year. They are just winless in the Moore League over the last two years. Millikan's last league win - 14 games ago - was a 35-34 win over Poly on Oct. 23 2009.
Millikan wraps up the season vs. Compton (a game the Rams could win) on Thursday.
It's hard to judge Diego's job since Millikan is certainly not a great football destination for aspiring players in the Long Beach area, not with Poly, Lakewood and even Los Alamitos close by.
Millikan is losing a good coach and a better builder of quality young men.
For more, see Wednesday's Press-Telegram
This is a tough call to make. It seems that this would have been better to announce after the last game of the season.
Kirk Diego is a good man. The next coach will have a difficult time doing better. What will Millikan do then?
I disagree this was an easy decision to make, even though Kirk was a good man, he was a bad coach. Millikan needs to find someone that will put a team on the field that will compete! All you have to do is look at Millikan's top rival in Lakewood and try and follow their coaching hires. They have continually put out a good product, even a product that beat Poly.
To whom it may concern;
Remember Coach Knox, he mentioned how they got there asses kicked by the North Carolina football team. Who's going to Coach Long States football Team. Have they finally found a Head Coach or what?