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Jared Grebner stepped down as the Metamora head football coach on Friday, ending his five-year tenure leading one of the state’s most iconic programs.
Grebner turned his letter of resignation into the Metamora administration Friday morning, then met with the Redbirds players. He was hired in 2020, compiling a 30-17 record in five seasons, with four Class 5A playoff berths. He will stay on as the head of the Metamora science department.
“It wasn’t a decision I went through lightly,” Grebner told the Journal Star. “This program will always mean a great deal to me as a player and as a coach. It’s something that I’ve been wrestling with for quite a while now. It wasn’t one thing or two things or three things. When you kind of put everything in the equation together, it just kind of led me to that decision. …
“Being a head coach is something that you can’t have one foot in and one foot out. You got to be totally invested. The kids and all the players, they deserve somebody that’s totally invested 100 percent. … At this point in my career, I couldn’t quite give them 100. I could give them a lot, but I couldn’t quite give them 100 percent.”
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Grebner joined the Metamora staff in 2002, not long after he was one of its top players. As a senior in the fall of 1996, the quarterback and safety led the Redbirds to a second-place finish in Class 4A and was named the Journal Star’s Player of the Year.
Grebner was hired in March 2020 to replace Pat Ryan, who spent 30 years with two state championships and four state runner-up finishes at the Woodford County program — named the No. 21 program all-time in the state in a recent ranking by the Illinois High School Association.
Grebner’s first season…
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Author : Journal Star
Publish date : 2025-01-17 14:45:00
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