RoyRogers, Tulsa (10/8/2009 7:50:03 AM)

Wait a minute...wasn't that the intention?
As I keep saying, the Severity satisfies the
OSSAA and guarantees the safety of the
remaining State coaches, i.e., Enough Blood
Has Been Shed. As Ms. Spring and Mr. Sheakley both said, "examples need to be set...."
But, Ladies and Gentlemen...where are the illusive Recruiter-Scouts hired by Jenks to go into the MiddleSchools/HighSchools...to recruit these young prospects?
Where? Let's get'em. Why can't Tulsa World Sportswriters find them? Why are they given a "free pass" ?
Only 2 reasons:
a. they never existed
b. we feel satisfied and we can all go back
to our homes.

THE SCOUT, (10/8/2009 8:30:53 AM)

I WANT TO REMEMBER JENKS TEAMS AS THEY WERE IN PERRY BEAVER DAYS WHERE IT WAS ALL JENKS HOME GROWN BOYS.

007, Tulsa (10/8/2009 9:14:36 AM)

We'll be fine Jenks, the OSSAA could have done alot more.


Besides we all know what bitter ex Jenks player's dad dropped dime on the coach. Because we all know that the other major tulsa high school football program, "outside of their gang problem" is the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Tulwac, (10/8/2009 9:17:06 AM)

Again, TW writer; please explain how this is harsh to anyone other than Alexander???? No spring football so Trimble will monitor weight and conditioning workouts???? The assistants would handle this anyway, he gets 83K, wife gets 6 K, he does honeydos for Kirby. Wow, does that sound like it's overly harsh to Trimble????

Jolie2, (10/8/2009 9:35:27 AM)

This is from another article published today in the TW and penned by Clifton Adcock and Matt Baker titled "Jenks Coaches Disciplined"

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The Tulsa World has requested a copy of Trimble's contract several times since Monday but had yet to receive one from the school district by Wednesday night.

END QUOTE

Doesn't it seem that the Jenks district doesn't want the public to know what's in that contract? It does to me.

Come on, Jenks. The contract is public record. Release the documents. Or is dishonesty a way of life in Jenks?

sax5084, Richmond (10/8/2009 10:08:23 AM)

FOIA his contract already, we would all like to know...

yep, Tulsa County (10/8/2009 10:31:55 AM)

Jealousy. Bitter parents whose kids couldn't make the team. There ya go...

Jenks does not 'recruit' players. Kids move there because they want to play on a team they can get noticed. If you have a kid who has real talent, are you going to labor away at Hale or East Central (nothing against those schools, just not football meccas), or move to Jenks or Union so your kid may get noticed by OU or a big school?

LocalBoy, B.A. (10/8/2009 10:52:11 AM)

yep.

There are right ways to do that and wrong ways.

This was plainly wrong.

Jay of Tulsa, (10/8/2009 10:54:07 AM)

If your kid has a ton of talent, you can move to Jenks or Union schools and HOPE he gets noticed. With the depth of talent those schools have...good luck!

Trimble and Alexander have been punished, time to move on. Need to fire them in my opinion though...

yerout, Claremore (10/8/2009 10:55:21 AM)

East Central is not a Mecca? Are you kidding me? They had 6 or 7 D1's just last year and 3 or 4 more this.

I would almost bet that in Coach Hills time at EC he has put almost if not as many D1's as Jenks in college.

RoyRogers, Tulsa (10/8/2009 11:06:15 AM)

Even if Tulsa (and its' Sportswriters) find a way to eliminate Jenks from all future Athletic-whatever...
the rest of these Football teams will STILL
be sorry.
From then on, it will be a silly bunch of sorry teams playing one another. You Oklahomans have not even a clue as to how far advanced Mr. Trimble's coaching techniques are.
You either got it-or you don't.
As I have previously stated...If the this season's Jenks Team DECIDES to WIN IT ANYWAY...with player#9, or #6...or this coach..or that coach....
None of you will be able to stop them. (They) are that good. At least for this season.
It's up to them!

honest, (10/8/2009 11:13:16 AM)

Dear Jolie2

If you were so interested in the crucifixation of some great coaches...the entire PUBLIC can read all 38 pages of the "public" document you so requested all over every single tv website you want......kotv channel six has the entire pdf file...it is not that hard to find and the school district handed all records over...so now you can read it and focus on something else to hurt our system over

Dismayed, (10/8/2009 11:39:06 AM)

Jenks has been recruiting players for years...find parent a job in the district, pay rent for housing, you name it. It just hasn't been caught because everyone loves a winner.

queequeg, (10/8/2009 11:55:54 AM)

There seems to be a lot of defending here of the indefensible.

Jolie2, (10/8/2009 12:04:43 PM)

dear honest

I've spent 10 minutes searching through articles and running searches on KOTV newson6's website looking for that pdf file with Trimble's contract, without success. Would you be a dear and give me a specific article page reference so that I could read it for myself? I'm sure that I'm not the only person here who would be grateful for that information.

tulsa native99, (10/8/2009 12:05:42 PM)

This is a joke. This is a slap on the wrist. Paying players, committing fraud by doctoring up phony lease agreements. Trimble is for ever tainted, we will say he won 9 championships, but "remember when he got caught cheating".

He cheated and he should get fired. What if a principal cheated on the EOI test and doctored numbers so his/her school would get a passing grade?

They should be banned from the playoffs. How do we know that no kid on his current team has been recruited or slipped an evelope with $100 in it.

Jenks got caught cheating. And we will always have a doubt, of "did they really win the right way?"

Ol City Boy, (10/8/2009 12:52:00 PM)

TulWac, Trimble needs to manage his own weight....poor example for players and students. He slimmed down somewhat for the Tulsa Run, but has re-gained that weight and then some.

Moses, Jenks (10/8/2009 1:56:50 PM)

Go Trojans

Thunder196, Tulsa (10/8/2009 2:04:43 PM)

Too Harsh? Not everyone looks the other way.

Big Doug, (10/8/2009 3:03:35 PM)

The OSSAA punishment doesn't add much to the self-imposed sanctions. Whether Trimble sits out until the end of the this semester or until June, he still has a chance to coach next year. He could be reinstated right before two-a-days. Everyone needs to forget about recruiting...that is not the biggie. It was payment, forgery, special favors, money from boosters and keeping all of this secret from his administrators. For that last reason alone, Trimble should be dismissed by the school board. Because seriously, if Jenks wins state titles in the future with Trimble leading the way, will anyone think he did it legitimately? Never again. It would be in Jenks' best interests to find another coach and athletic director. And if the administrators and school board has any ethics, I think they know what they need to do.

messy, tulsa (10/8/2009 3:18:27 PM)

Good. If he leaves town that'll help Tulsa a lot in moving off the "Fattest Cities in America" list.

confederateU, (10/8/2009 3:21:53 PM)

About that Stephanie Spring - she is also the director of athletics at Tulsa PUblic Schools?

Sorry, but in our opinion, there seems to be a massive CONFLICT of INTEREST there in rendering these harsh penalties? And by her own admission, she considers to be "harsh penalties" and "not the norm".

But, did she or did she not vote to IMPOSE these "harsh" penalties?

Who formulated these penalties? Are they written in black and white based on the violation?

Or does this so called "board" arbitrarily decide on their own, what a penalty should be, for whatever violation they think deserves to be punished? That seems like a recipe for disaster to give them such unfettered powers.

If it were me, I'd hire the best danged pitbull attorney in the country.

honky donkey, (10/8/2009 3:33:13 PM)

Trimble needs to be put on the curb and figure out how to manage his own weight. He will be nothing but a black eye for the Jenks school system. Jenks is exceptionally successful in every area of school academics and athletics. Replacing him should be no problem and a priority to wipe the tarnish that Trimble has endowed them off. He is an extremely large turd in the punchbowl.

tfromtulsa, Tulsa (10/8/2009 4:13:59 PM)

honky donkey - Good point, but it's hard to believe the higher-ups (aka Kirby, Mike Means, and the school board) didn't know what was going on. I think the big turd has a lot of company in that bowl.

JBP, TULSA (10/8/2009 4:19:06 PM)

Jolie2 and others, the documents in question can be obtained at the beginning of this article. Just click. :)