Probably sooner than expected, but the Al Rhodes experiment at Northrop is over.
After only one year.
The future Hall of Fame boys basketball coach announced his resignation in a statement Wednesday.
"I have decided to pursue other basketball opportunities that have presented themselves," Rhodes said in the written statement. "We have made great strides with the program and the future is very bright."
Rhodes was 10-12 last season. He is 454-192 in 27 years of coaching at Northrop, Warsaw and Logansport.
Rhodes was in an unfamilar situation from the start. He came from the single-community high schools of Warsaw and Logansport, and never fully grasped the sometimes chaotic open-enrollment of Fort Wayne Community Schools.
Players that you see coming up in middle schools won't always enroll at the high school you expect as a coach.
That's probably not the only reason Rhodes stepped down, but it goes to show how Northrop and Rhodes were never a good fit.
- By Greg Jones, The Journal Gazette
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