Does Asante sound like such a bad person that he deserved to get the ax six games into his first season? St. Paul is not your typical Catholic private school. Anyone they hire who is not considered a “St. Paul Guy” doesn’t know what they are getting themselves into.

Aram,
Who’s breaking the story 1st? I’m hearing reports that Scoby is at Cathedral…Is this matter still confedential? I’m also hearing reports about being academic eligible?

Amazing to me that you all consider yourselves to be sports journalists. How embarrassing for you all to broadcast yourselves on the Internet looking like a bunch of giggling high school mean girls. Just curious, have any of you heard of a coach named Bob Ladouceur? Oh that’s right, you do know who he is because you cover high school football, especially big powerhouse programs like De La Salle. I think you should get on your cellphones and schedule an interview with Coach Ladouceur. Maybe he can enlighten you bafoons on why he doesn’t allow single digit numbers in his football program. While your at it, ask him how he is able to get those “talented Popwarner players who only wear numbers 1-9″ into his program. My guess is that he actually coaches his team, prepares them for the season and doesn’t rely on one player to carry the team. I guess De La Salle is another one of the “outdated programs” that doesnt realize that kids today want to wear single digits. There are plenty of other high school football programs in California that don’t allow single digit numbers but I think you can research those on your own. By the way, single digits did exist on St. Paul’s football team this season and that is not what the issue was for the school. Maybe if you stopped giving one sided interviews you would learn the truth. But that would mean you were responsible journalists and from what I can read, you enjoy the gossip and the rumors. I find it interesting that you laugh about the tradition of single digits, but I didn’t see you laughing in the first interview where Coach Asante shared with you his tradition of team Virtues. Didn’t you find it funny that a coach would ask his players to memorize and recite those virtues at a moments notice? Of course you didnt because you showed respect for his traditions as did our team. I guess that just shows the hypocrisy of your journalistic reporting. The St. Paul football players bought into that tradition and took the time to memorize his virtues. Now why would a group of young men take the time to memorize all of that stuff if they didn’t buy into this program? I will tell you why, because they are respectful young men who believe in each other and believe in tradition, even new traditions. Always remember, there are three sides to every story: their side, our side and then there’s the truth. What side do you stand for?

You aren’t going to hear from the St. Paul administration on the firing of Coach Asante because it’s a personnel issue and against the law for them to reveal the reasons. You should know that.

Oh oh looks like somebody just violated confidentiality rights of a minor. All this for a story nice job gentleman. Asante while you’re out there trying to plug yourself in for a job put into consideration the garbage that comes out of your mouth.

Signgate is the dumbest, most non-news worthy story of the sgv high school football season so far.

Can’t believe Aram & the guys spent more than a minute discussing it.

COACH UR A LITTLE …YOU SPENT MORE TIME PICKING LINT OFF YOUR SUIT THAN YOU DID ON THE PRACTICE FIELD,WHO TEXTS EVERY 5 MINS. WHEN UR RUNNING A PRACTICE…THATS BULLSHIT, YOU GOT EVERYONE FOOLED, THAT UR THE VICTIM HERE…

YOU DID A GREAT INJUSTICE TO THE BOYS…YOU DIDN’T PREPARE THEM TO PLAY SERVITE , AMAT , MATER DEI…EVEN FUCN la mirada kicked are azzzz. COACH DO YOU THINK THEY RAN A 3 DAY HELLWEEK HELL NO…MAN I WISH I CAN REALLY TELL U GUYS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED , BUT THEN SP WOULD LOOK EVEN MORE REDICULIOUS FOR HIRING THIS CLOWN. COACH U SHOULD BE A TALENT SCOUT NOT A HEAD COACH.

” I GOT MY OWN FLAV OF DOING THINGS”

WHAT WAS SP ADMIN THINKING!!!

Love how people come on here saying Asante violated CIF rules. As far as I know, all of St. Paul’s transfers were cleared by CIF. St. Paul’s administrators and athletic department endorsed everything Asante was doing, otherwise they wouldn’t of let it happen. If you’re upset with how Asante was building the program, you should be as upset with St. Paul for endorsing it.

With the type of schedule St. Paul had, it was no surprise they started the way they did. Certainly you don’t fire someone six games into the season based on results do you? Or did St. Paul?

This is mostly about parents, the type that come on here and call people like Aram and I giggling girls and bafoons, then in the following paragraphs use words like, “respect” to make their point. It’s about commenters like “The Pit” who hurl insult after insult. What a great example you’re for the school? At least Asante, a week after being fired, spoke with us and wished nothing but the best for St. Paul. He admitted there were philosophical differences and left it at that. He didn’t use the opportunity to say what he really wanted to say, he took the high road. That’s class, and some of you can’t stand it. Poor you.

Why some of you who preach so loudly about respect can’t make a point without insulting someone is beyond me.

Of course, we would love both sides to this story, but the administrators never talk, they never explain, they leave it up to us to find people that will talk, and for you and I to speculate.

I invite any parent of the football team who has something to say about Asante, St. Paul, or Aram and I to come on the show and discuss it like adults. We would love to hear your side. My guess is, you’ll just fire back with more name calling.

Before the season started I said this was a sink or swim situation. When you invite a lot of transfers that take spots from returning players, you’re going to hear it from a lot of parents if you don’t win. That seems like the case here.

This isn’t about what number you wear or the tradition, this is about who’s playing and who’s not. Parents can’t stay out of the way and let coaches coach.

@FredJ,
Amen brother and that’s the whole truth and nothing but… Every one of the stone throwers at St. Paul lives in a glass house, you could really learn a thing or two about showing some class from Asante.

@Bean Counter,
Couldn’t agree with you more on the next step St. Paul should take. What do you think, in a private school league with the likes of Whittier Christian and Salesian?

@Rick O’Connor,
The administration should stand up for themselves if they think Asante is mis-representing the situation. Asante certainly hasn’t shied away from talking to Aram and Fred, he will also make an appearance tonight on TWC.

@The PIT,
No one represents the slimes better than you.

@Rick O’Connor,
Yes, I forgot, St. Paul is own by the Archdiocese and the administration wouldn’t dare ask “how high?” unless they were ordered to “JUMP!”

You can bet on it. Administration at Amat will not take Scoby.

@ FredJ

“This isn’t about what number you wear or the tradition, this is about who’s playing and who’s not.”

Man, that is so spot on. Mommy and Daddy just can’t see that little whoever is NOT the next superstar. He’s just not. Let him fight for his spot and encourage him to be the best (insert position here) he can be. If you’re not happy with little whoever’s playing time, what are you doing about it? How about momy and daddy get their fat duffs off that Barkalounger in the offseason and go out and help your kid get better, push him to train harder, and if he refuses, well, then you know exactly why he’s not playing.

Here’s a clue for you parents that wonder why your kid is not playing; if he would rather be playing (insert gaming console here) or hanging out with his friends than making himself better that’s a pretty good indication you want it more than your kid does. If that’s that case, let them be part of the team and just have fun.

I hate to admit that the team looks worse since Coach Mo took over. Choose a QB for gods sake! Both QB’s are bad. 13 is an INT waiting to happen and 15 is ROBOSACK. The offense looks like Ancich 1975 throwback. Pro Set with fullback and tight end. This is 2012 have you heard of the SPREAD? The Special teams is horrible giving up TD’s almost every game. The defense gives up 63 points OMG! Come on man, you guys are St. Paul Guys it supposed to get better not WORSE.