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Gartman resigns post
Published Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Morgan Academy headmaster Randy Skipper on Wednesday confirmed the resignation of the school’s athletic director and football coach Robert Gartman.
“Coach Gartman resigned (Tuesday) effective at the end of the school year,” said Skipper. “The Morgan family appreciates everything Gartman has done for Morgan Academy. He brought pride and recognition for the school.”
Multiple phone calls to Gartman this week were not returned.
According to Skipper, Gartman did not give a reason for resigning from the post he has held since 2001. In two stints with the Senators, Gartman won six AISA Class AAA state titles, including the Senators’ first in 1988.
“The resignation surprised me somewhat,” said Skipper. “But in this business, dealing with coaches the past 32 years, nothing surprises me.”
Though most of Gartman’s career success has come at Morgan, the Senators have fallen on hard times since winning the 2005 state championship. They went 4-6 and 3-7 the next two years. They reached the playoffs this past season with a 5-5 record before falling to Fort Dale in the first round.
The resignation came just four days after Gartman told the Times-Journal he planned to stay at Morgan indefinitely.
“It was my intent when I came back to Morgan Academy to stay until I retire,” Gartman said last week. “I plan to be here indefinitely. I love Morgan Academy, and nothing has changed for me to feel otherwise.”
Rumors that Gartman resigned on Friday spread as far as Camden. Wilcox Academy coach Chris Burford, a volunteer assistant under Gartman at Wilcox Academy when the Wildcats won the 1996 AISA Class AAA state title, said he heard the rumor, but chalked it up to speculation.
The two coaches talk regularly, but the news of Gartman’s resignation came as a surprise to Burford.
“We talked Monday, and he never really said anything about it,” said Burford. “That’s strange. There’s been speculation now, seems like it had gone on for a couple of weeks. I’m sure he’ll find a job. He won’t have any problems.”
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Posted by bamafan (anonymous) on January 14, 2009 at 9:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Meadowview Christian could use a man like Coach Gartman!!
Sure do hope for the football players at Meadowview, the people or persons in charge to consier him to replace Coach Jackson for the job!!
You can't win championships when you don't have championship calibur players!!!!
Best of Luck to you Coach Gartman and your wonderful wife, whom I truly enjoy working with!!
Posted by girlsdad (anonymous) on January 15, 2009 at 8:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
if Morgan was his last job, why was he interviewing
for other jobs last summer?
Posted by bamafan (anonymous) on January 15, 2009 at 6:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well...... pari1220
Are you contradicting yourself? You are the one saying he is the BEST COACH MORGAN EVER HAD!!!
I think there is more going on here than you know...
Maybe it really isn't his choice to leave, you know how politics work, maybe you should ask the BOARD AT YOUR SCHOOL OF CHOICE..
ANd I DID NOT SAY anything about anyone being good enough, they won a few games did they not?
They just were obviously not championship calibur, were they?
Everyone can not be all the time. Sorry if it offended you.
You do tend to read things into comments in the paper as a way to kind of give yourself an air about you, don't you?
Posted by miked6060 (anonymous) on January 16, 2009 at 12:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Being a Former Player who was there when he left the 1st time, the words he spoke were a man has to do what he has to and what is right, no matter how it feels. He is one of the best coaches this state has seen. There were rumors then and there will be now. Morgan may never be the school it was, it might be more., who knows for sure.
Posted by burt (anonymous) on January 16, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
correct spelling is caliber, or calibre if your across the pond
Posted by I_saw_what_you_did_in_Selma (anonymous) on January 16, 2009 at 12:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The correct spelling is "you're" when you are saying "you are."
Guess burt went to Moo-Moo Meadowview.
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Morgan Academy, class of '88
Damn what a year!
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