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By JJ Conrad | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 05, 2017 6:22 PM, updated May 05, 2017 7:26 PM
Ramsey ice hockey coach Dean Portas, NJ.com’s state Coach of the Year in 2016, has lost his job because he did not give enough playing time to the Board of Education president’s son and will not be rehired, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Portas sent an email to players and parents on Tuesday, notifying them that he will not return for the 2017-18 season. The email was obtained by NJ Advance Media.
School officials, Ramsey hockey parents and players, rival coaches and others with knowledge of the situation told NJ Advance Media that Portas is being fired because sophomore defenseman James Gasparovich, son of board president Tony Gasparovich, quit the team, disgruntled over a lack of playing time.
Fairly common…see Cresskill boys hoops this year and a few years a saturnine BOE member tried to remove a Paramus HS baseball coach.
it’s all from the top
Happens in Ridgewood too… ask me how I know…