AD plans to remain active in high school administration
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San Benito Athletic Director Randy Logue was fed up with the administrative duties of the school athletics and with the angry parents and coaches.
Logue’s sent a letter to the school board stating that he would be resigning after this school year as Commander-in-Chief of the athletic program and stepping back into the trenches as a coach. His resignation was approved at the school board meeting on Tuesday.
“I discovered that my strengths as a person were not suited to the athletic director’s job,” Logue said. “I was the wrong person for the job. They need to have someone who is more comfortable with the administrative part of the job than I am.”
Logue took over for interim Athletic Director Dave Tari at the beginning of the school year. Tari was hired after Marty Dillon was fired because of alleged sexual harassment charges.
But Logue said he hopes to be able to work with his successor to help him learn the job.
“I just really missed coaching,” Logue said. “As a coach, you have control. As an athletic director, you have no control. Resigning was not because of anything anyone did.”
Logue is often seen out watching games and working with the athletes. Even when he wasn’t the school administer assigned to be at the event, he would walk to and from games to keep up to date on what was happening.
“I am disappointed. He has done an outstanding job for us this year,” said Superintendent Jean Burns Slater. “But I also understand that he wants to be close to his kids and enjoy his time coaching.”
Burns Slater said she had no idea Logue planned to resign because of how active he was in the school.
“I was totally surprised,” Burns Slater said. “I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it. It was a shock. But we will put in a formal process to replace him.”
Principal Duane Morgan said he would like the next person to be someone who is already involved with the school’s athletics.
“We’d like to see if we can get someone on staff to take the job,” Morgan said. “It would be tough to find someone off campus to take the job. We have some good coaches here. Hopefully someone will step up and want to do it.”
Logue has been actively involved in the committee looking into new facilities at the school such as an all-weather track, a turf field and a weight room/wrestling facility.
He is also on the new construction committee and recently took over as the chairman for the Physical Education Department.
Logue started an intramural lunch program at the high school to allow kids who might not get the chance otherwise to play. He is working on a unified booster program, where school athletics and activities are supported through donations of alumni.
The resignation was not as devastating as it would have been if Logue had decided to leave the school all together, Burns Slater said.
“He is here. He is with us as a part of the faculty and our school,” she said. “Right now I am disappointed, but we are not losing Randy’s expertise and experience.”
The best part of being the AD was being able to watch some different sports that he wouldn’t have otherwise seen, Logue said
Logue will be coaching freshmen football and JV wrestling, but said he doesn’t have any plans to get back into coaching track. He also plans to continue teaching at San Benito High school, where he taught for 18 years.
There is a vacancy for the head girls volleyball coach that Morgan jokingly suggested Logue would have to fill if no one else were found.
“If that’s the case, I’ll go back to being athletic director,” Logue said.
