It seems like Brett Davis is pretty annoyed. And it kind of seems like he has a point.
Last season, Davis led the Tonopah Valley High School football team to a 12-1 record and a trip to the 2A semifinals, according to the Arizona Republic’s Richard Obert. Davis employed an air raid offense that produced 3,928 passing yards and 45 touchdowns.
Recently, he went through several rounds of interviews to become the next coach at Verrado High School and was unofficially offered the job pending board approval.
Here’s where things get crazy.
During last week’s meeting, the district board tabled the hiring. On Friday, the job was re-posted on the school’s website.
And it’s not that there is a strong opposition to Davis, it seems. The board is simply hoping the former coach changes his mind and decides to stay.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Davis told Obert.
The former coach is Jeremy Hathcock, who turned around the Verrado program last year, leading it to the 5A semifinals a year after it went 3-7.
Verrado head coach Jeremy Hathcock during a football game against Cactus at Verrado High School on Oct. 17, 2024.
In late January, Hathcock informed Verrado he was leaving to take the same job at Mesa High. School officials spoke with him about changing his mind, but he reaffirmed his decision. He later asked to be released from his teaching position so he could take one at Mesa, as well.
However, on Feb. 28 Hathcock reachout back out to Verrado about the possibility of returning, under certain “conditions,” one being that he wanted a “football class,” according to Obert.
District Superintendent Mark Yslas told The Republic that “I did not meet those conditions.” And Verrado decided to leave.
However, when the district board got word of the interaction it gave it hope that the popular coach might reconsider…
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Author : High School Sports
Publish date : 2025-03-11 11:04:00
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