Post by Banana Cat on May 17, 2011 1:25:24 GMT -5
I guess the owner didn't read about Jim Terry's history before hiring him, or doing a background check (doh). See Terry's misdeeds here: indoorfootballboard.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=4021
www.rgj.com/article/20110515/SPORTS/105150362/Barons-shake-up-coaching-staff?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
www.rgj.com/article/20110515/SPORTS/105150362/Barons-shake-up-coaching-staff?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Barons shake up coaching staff
May 14, 2011
Written by Dan Hinxman
The first-year Reno Barons professional indoor football team has fired coach Anthony Bartley and brought in a coach with a criminal past.
General manager Tim Pierce said Friday he was unaware of Jim Terry's past when he hired Terry last week. Bartley was fired May 7, a day after the Barons (1-2) lost to Stockton, 76-30.
"I met him in Las Vegas and really liked his football mind," Pierce said. ""... We were having such a problem with our offense, I decided to give him a shot. We have entirely too much talent not to be able to score."
The Barons won their first game but have since lost two straight.
Terry acknowledged he had been arrested for writing bad checks to himself.
When Pierce learned about the arrest and other references to Terry on various minor league sports websites, he said he would potentially consider his options.
"There's a lot of message-board garbage out there," said the 34-year-old Terry, a Florida native who lives in Las Vegas. "I won a national championship in college. I wrote checks to myself because a promoter bounced checks to me. "... It was expunged from my record.
"... Ninety-eight percent of the stuff you're going to see is by (anonymous posters). In the 11 cities I've worked, nobody has ever come up to me and said anything to my face. "... I'm extremely passionate about what I do, and I'm extremely good at what I do."
Terry, a placekicker who won a national title at Long Beach City College in 1995, said he then went on to a 10-year career as an indoor league kicker.
He was the commissioner of the Eastern Indoor Football League in 2007 when concerns arose about league liability insurance after a player was injured. A week later, players arrived at an arena for a game to find it padlocked because the team had withdrawn its league membership over concerns about liability, according to a story in the Vindicator, a Youngstown, Ohio publication.
Two blogs have alleged that Terry ran football camps and a football recruiting service in which he failed to deliver on paid products. The sites, one of which offered a $250 reward for locating Terry, allege they sent half the payment for football gear such as helmets and pads and but never received them.
Dennis Justice, president of Justice Sports in Fletcher, N.C., wrote an open letter to an insurance company in which he said Terry is a "cancer to minor league sports," and said that Terry has been banned from public schools in Pinellas County, Fla.
"Terry, who played at Countryside (High) before transferring to Youngstown (Ohio) Cardinal Mooney before his senior year, faces arrest if he steps on the grounds of any Pinellas County public school because of a trespass warning stemming from an incident with a coach," Justice wrote, quoting the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune from June 2004.
Terry said he considered taking legal action against Justice until he learned that he "lived in a trailer."
The Barons have also recently released two players, lineman Kika Kaululaau and receiver Scott Witter.
"We cut a couple of players because they had very bad attitudes," Terry said. "You can't have the tail wagging the dog. They had the tail wagging the dog, and they're 1-2."
The Barons play the Las Vegas Cobras at 7 p.m. today at the Downtown Events Center. Terry said he he's confident the Barons will win today, and if they don't said he'll hand out 2,000 free tickets to their next game.
"Bartley lost the confidence of his players. We had no business losing to Stockton," he said. "We've got all Division I athletes on offense and defense. " ...
"I'm a total 180 from Bartley. I'm going to say things that are going to be newsworthy. There's no such thing as bad press because right now we're not getting any press."
May 14, 2011
Written by Dan Hinxman
The first-year Reno Barons professional indoor football team has fired coach Anthony Bartley and brought in a coach with a criminal past.
General manager Tim Pierce said Friday he was unaware of Jim Terry's past when he hired Terry last week. Bartley was fired May 7, a day after the Barons (1-2) lost to Stockton, 76-30.
"I met him in Las Vegas and really liked his football mind," Pierce said. ""... We were having such a problem with our offense, I decided to give him a shot. We have entirely too much talent not to be able to score."
The Barons won their first game but have since lost two straight.
Terry acknowledged he had been arrested for writing bad checks to himself.
When Pierce learned about the arrest and other references to Terry on various minor league sports websites, he said he would potentially consider his options.
"There's a lot of message-board garbage out there," said the 34-year-old Terry, a Florida native who lives in Las Vegas. "I won a national championship in college. I wrote checks to myself because a promoter bounced checks to me. "... It was expunged from my record.
"... Ninety-eight percent of the stuff you're going to see is by (anonymous posters). In the 11 cities I've worked, nobody has ever come up to me and said anything to my face. "... I'm extremely passionate about what I do, and I'm extremely good at what I do."
Terry, a placekicker who won a national title at Long Beach City College in 1995, said he then went on to a 10-year career as an indoor league kicker.
He was the commissioner of the Eastern Indoor Football League in 2007 when concerns arose about league liability insurance after a player was injured. A week later, players arrived at an arena for a game to find it padlocked because the team had withdrawn its league membership over concerns about liability, according to a story in the Vindicator, a Youngstown, Ohio publication.
Two blogs have alleged that Terry ran football camps and a football recruiting service in which he failed to deliver on paid products. The sites, one of which offered a $250 reward for locating Terry, allege they sent half the payment for football gear such as helmets and pads and but never received them.
Dennis Justice, president of Justice Sports in Fletcher, N.C., wrote an open letter to an insurance company in which he said Terry is a "cancer to minor league sports," and said that Terry has been banned from public schools in Pinellas County, Fla.
"Terry, who played at Countryside (High) before transferring to Youngstown (Ohio) Cardinal Mooney before his senior year, faces arrest if he steps on the grounds of any Pinellas County public school because of a trespass warning stemming from an incident with a coach," Justice wrote, quoting the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune from June 2004.
Terry said he considered taking legal action against Justice until he learned that he "lived in a trailer."
The Barons have also recently released two players, lineman Kika Kaululaau and receiver Scott Witter.
"We cut a couple of players because they had very bad attitudes," Terry said. "You can't have the tail wagging the dog. They had the tail wagging the dog, and they're 1-2."
The Barons play the Las Vegas Cobras at 7 p.m. today at the Downtown Events Center. Terry said he he's confident the Barons will win today, and if they don't said he'll hand out 2,000 free tickets to their next game.
"Bartley lost the confidence of his players. We had no business losing to Stockton," he said. "We've got all Division I athletes on offense and defense. " ...
"I'm a total 180 from Bartley. I'm going to say things that are going to be newsworthy. There's no such thing as bad press because right now we're not getting any press."