By Tim Peterson
(Bell Gardens) – Chris Griego was named the head football coach at Bell Gardens he confirmed Monday.
Last year Griego was the co-head coach with Rudy Ramirez. Prior to that Griego was the defensive coordinator at Bell Gardens for four years.
Griego has 30 years of coaching experience which includes several years on the staff at Bishop Amat and two stints as the head coach at Salesian.
Griego now takes over for Ramirez who stepped down after last season.
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Google it! Average salary for a public Socal teacher is $105,000, for a private school teacher $45,000. Add to that retirement benefits and medical benefits the gap gets much wider. I will take my teaching gig and coaching gig at my public over a D1 coaching gig in Ca. any day. That is probably why the prominent public HC’s that SP reached out to turned them down flat. If you are a walk on you apply for every opening for HC just for the resume and ego boost. That is why 60 or more applicants for any HC job is not unusual.
The trinity schools can pay the big bucks, mission league teams also, once you start going down into the lower catholic leagues, Angelus etc it starts getting pretty slim. If you can parlay a coaching job into a full time teaching gig paying 6 figures then you take that over the private school slim pickings.
Trinity league coaching jobs are hot seats because of the intense recruiting requirements and all the pressure coming from parents and influential alums. The job would be a whole lot easier if the southland’s top talent were evenly distributed among the six schools by government edict, leaving the coaches to, you know, COACH!
Chris Reinart, newly departed from Servite, said he’s “learn his life lessons” these last three years at the Friars’ school. Translation: he’s going back to being a college assistant, where somebody else deals with recruiting, family members and the media.
Incidentally, Eric Sondheimer of the Times thinks Servite might bring Troy Thomas back for his third turn at the wheel. Thomas just resigned from his post as the defensive coordinator at Edison, so the timing looks right. Many feel that Troy rubs people the wrong way, but he knows how to win in the Trinity, so the Anaheim school may feel compelled to welcome him back.
@? Why would that be the result? More and more private schools are offering more and more $$$, with increased exposure of hs football. There were 60 applicants for Bishop Montgomery job that was listed at 35-50k; Trinity League pay doubles or triples those salaries . There’s only so much a public school can do , at least above the table …::::
Servite of Anaheim lost its head coach. Third Trinity League team to do so. These are top schools in the Nation and their HC’s are quitting. They all indicate that for a young guy these private schools do not provide a secure place or money to raise a young family. If these guys were in Texas they would be earning 200 to 300 grand for coaching high school and no need to teach health classes. I see a shift in players going back to publics in Ca. at least.
Glad to see only a slight difference here, which is similar to the movement over at Schurr. It’s St Paul that is going to go through a real shakeup; I still can’t believe they gave that job to such an inexperienced young man. Marion Ancich must be rotating in his grave at an unsafe rpm.
When was he at Salesian ? Must have been at least 20 years ago before Roddy got here ?
He deserves job ; will continue the quality of the program