SoCalHoops High School News

Another Coaching Move:
Hart Coach Fired--(Mar. 22,  2000)

Today's LA Times featured a small story by Eric Sondheimer about the firing of Hart High's boys' basketball coach.  According to the Times, David Montgomery has been fired by Hart Principal Gary Fuller because of what Montgomery clled "philosophical differences."

Montgomery told Sondheimer on Tuesday that he had a disagreement with the administration about his basketball players participating in other sports, particularly football, which is Hart's most successful sports program.   "I wanted my basketbal players to be dedicated to basketball," Montgomery told the Times.  "I was very adamant in saying 'football participation would hurt your basketball.'  If I'm guilty of trying to promote basketball, I'm guilty as charged."   According to Sondhiemer, Fuller was not available for comment.

 
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