The girls' soccer team is going to guided by a new boss, as former coach Anthony Mucciaro 'resigned' recently after guiding his Indians' to back-to-back NVL Brass Division titles.
That is merely the appetizer; we are all eagerly awaiting the white smoke to emerge from the chimney at the Munson House, signaling that we do indeed have a new football coach for the first time since Roger Ouellette replaced Bill Gargano at the end of the 1989 season.
For many, including myself, this will be bit traumatic, as we've know no other WHS coach other than Ouellette.
What makes Ouellette's departure (for personal medical reasons) doubly difficult to report on objectively (full disclosure time) is that he has been a close personal friend of mine dating back to when we first met in 1982 when I was doing play-by-play for WINE Radio in Danbury and he took the reins from John Zinser at New Fairfield High School.
He was among the first to befriend me and tell people they could trust me when I started my run as Sports Editor of the Town Times in 1994; I couldn't have been more thrilled when his 1997 baseball team won the CIAC state title and was voted No. 1 in the polls.
For his detractors - and I know more than a few of them - chew on this fact: He's the only coach to have won a state title in the 16 years I've been covering WHS sports.
My personal favorite to take over the reins would be longtime WHS freshman coach Keith Borkowski, currently the softball coach at the school.
Keith's teams: Win.....play, if not totally wide-open offense, then a varied scheme which keeps defenses guessing....rarely make the same mistakes twice.
The seniors know him; heck, they were undefeated playing for him, so there is a familiarity factor.
He comes prepared and knows his football; in the not-too-distant future, we'll see if the powers-that-be (who quite frankly, concern me) share those sentiments.
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