By Tim Peterson
(Covina) – Aaron Berry has stepped down as the head football coach at Covina after one year to take the head coaching job at Monache High School in Porterville, California Berry confirmed Thursday. Athletic Director Kevin Glaspy will take over as head coach.
“I enjoyed my time at Covina. It was positive and it was a hard decision to leave,” Berry said. “But Porterville is my wife’s hometown and this was the best move for my family. I look forward to building the program over there.”
Covina won the Sierra League and finished 7-5 overall in Berry’s only year. The Colts advanced to the second round of the CIF Division 10 playoffs where they fell to Baldwin Park 26-25.
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I should clarify: *season before he stepped down (25 years ago…damn).
@SoCal, well, it certainly helped that the last Super at CVUSD was himself a coach, a good one at that. He stepped down (smartly as I can see now) due to having “priorities” (as I recall a conversation when asked by a player during his final year). Sad times for the profession for sure.
In the midst of so many coaches being forced out–or burned out–it’s very refreshing to see a guy of such obvious merit move up the ladder. Covina football is better because of this man, which is what we should all strive to accomplish in our individual fields of endeavor.
It’s no secret Covina Valley is one of the worst paying districts. That’s why you lost the last four coaches to better paying districts. Once the last superintendent left so did the good coaches. He would pay the football coaches an extra assignment which is about $18,000-$20,000 a year. All schools can do it, but the schools that wants good coaches will lure them in with this incentive. Everything is negotiable even at public schools. I seen coaches packages from $10,000-$60,000 of extra assignments plus of course their base pay of 6 digits. These coaches deserve this kind of money because of all the hours and responsibilities they have. Most good football programs, people know the varsity head football coach more than the principal.