Good Counsel FB

[Anonymous]

Announced a New HC today. What happened to Stefanelli? Hadn’t seen anything about him leaving

[Anonymous]

Stefanelli was relieved of duties and replaced by his DC (awkward). No Sherrone Moore stuff- performance only

Hot take is that this is a colossally poor move. Good Counsel does not have the funds it did during the Dancel/Milloy years for obvious reasons. Without someone dumping millions into the program it is VERY hard to stay consistently good. The WCAC is also dealing with transfer bugs that all the d1 cats deal with. You aren’t Dematha who can get by on name recognition and is also all boys

Saint John’s has UA money- Gonzaga has elite men’s sports and fantastic coaching and is also all boys. Butting into Howard and Montgomery counties which are hardly football hotbeds is tough. This isn’t 2005 were you could throw a rock and find 20 tackle teams with 4 teams per age bracket. Now they just have 1 maybe 2 per age group. With kids electing to start later or not play- the pool of available boys willing to play drops off a cliff.

No average joe who would start no problem in public school ball wants to sit on the bench while some kid who’s never done anything from the program comes in and starts day 1.

We have freshman football in our league. No it’s not what it once was but we have 35-40 kids per team. We typically have 5-8 newbies per year

I love football and coach myself but we have 3-4 starters in freshman football this past year who were under 5”9 and under 130. If I was their father I would strongly encourage them not to play at gc because there is no point to go thru all the workouts and pay out the ass to fund a future recruits education

[Anonymous]

Stefanelli is a great dude and great HC

GC needs to decide whether they wanna be UGA lite or step back and play in the metro division of wcac ball

[Anonymous]

GC won the league in 23 and were runner ups in 24. Stef had plenty of success and was an institution there. Seems like a bad move to me. Is this the new principal trying to leave his stamp?

[Anonymous]

This is a weird move.

Steffanelli was always competitive and ran a clean program.

What is the thinking that Gorgone will somehow do better?

[Anonymous]

His son posted on Twitter yesterday that his dad was fired, and it wasn't amicable.

[Anonymous]

This is very concerning on so many levels. How did Gorgone get hired without going through the interview process like everyone else? How did they skip the application going live? The last time the job was open it was a national search and you had to interview with the board and many others. He didn’t go to GC and there’s speculation that he doesn’t have a degree either.

[Anonymous]

From what I’m finding out through multiple sources, the AD and Defensive Coach have had a very inappropriate relationship for a long time. Many parents, staff and players have even seen the AD visibly upset during games when GC was dominating. There was most definitely some collusion and this seems to be something long in the works at the detriment of the players and school. There is no other reason to replace a coach who has dedicated so much of his life to this program and has brought championships and a consistent winning culture to the program. Not to mention too that the guy you are replacing him with is actually terrible. His defense gave up 31 points in their last game, which now makes me wonder if Gorgone had his attention on more than the game. If this is the environment that is being fostered at GC, then I believe this school is no longer worth the money or trust. They clearly do not stand on the values that they say they do.

[Anonymous]

Yikes

[Anonymous]

Real talk if they balk on this and people get mad.. who would take this job? The AD wants to get rid of you and all their players are transferring

[Anonymous]

What do you mean "balk" on it?

For better or worse the admin made the decision to hire Gorgone, so I dont think they are going to walk that back now and open a search.

[Anonymous]

There’s speculation the AD has been embezzling money for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stefanelli was relieved of duties and replaced by his DC (awkward). No Sherrone Moore stuff- performance only

Hot take is that this is a colossally poor move. Good Counsel does not have the funds it did during the Dancel/Milloy years for obvious reasons. Without someone dumping millions into the program it is VERY hard to stay consistently good. The WCAC is also dealing with transfer bugs that all the d1 cats deal with. You aren’t Dematha who can get by on name recognition and is also all boys

Saint John’s has UA money- Gonzaga has elite men’s sports and fantastic coaching and is also all boys. Butting into Howard and Montgomery counties which are hardly football hotbeds is tough. This isn’t 2005 were you could throw a rock and find 20 tackle teams with 4 teams per age bracket. Now they just have 1 maybe 2 per age group. With kids electing to start later or not play- the pool of available boys willing to play drops off a cliff.

No average joe who would start no problem in public school ball wants to sit on the bench while some kid who’s never done anything from the program comes in and starts day 1.

We have freshman football in our league. No it’s not what it once was but we have 35-40 kids per team. We typically have 5-8 newbies per year

I love football and coach myself but we have 3-4 starters in freshman football this past year who were under 5”9 and under 130. If I was their father I would strongly encourage them not to play at gc because there is no point to go thru all the workouts and pay out the ass to fund a future recruits education

Which sports at Gonzaga are “elite”?

[Anonymous]

Multiple scandals happening under the GC administration. The president is aware of all the problems. Many people have come forward and he refuses to do anything. They do not care about the kids.

[Anonymous]

The AD frames students and coaches for things based on lies so they get expelled or fired.