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It’s a sad day in North Town, as we’ve learned that the Panthers’ head football coach of six years, Scott Meyer, has stepped down from his position. <\/span>In addition to a popular on-campus presence, Jordan loses its second high-caliber coach in a week, as Meyer announced his resignation on Wednesday, just days after boys’ basketball coach\/athletic director Ron Massy announced his retirement.<\/p>\n “I had a great six years,” said Meyer via telephone Friday morning. <\/span>“I really enjoyed my time here.” <\/span><\/p>\n In a relatively short period of time, Meyer was able to change the football culture at Jordan. <\/span>In 2006, the Panther s went 1-9; the next year, 5-5. <\/span>In 2008, they went 7-3, with an important win over eventual CIF semifinalist Lakewood. <\/span>With 2008 Moore League Player of the Year John Timu returning in 2009, expectations were high for the 2009 team both at Jordan and around the league. <\/span>Poly coach Raul Lara said before the season he was more worried about Jordan than any other team on the schedule; but an early season-ending knee injury to Timu, and a streak of injuries through most of the team’s other key contributors, led to a frustrating 3-7 season.<\/p>\n Those frustrations weren’t a cause of the move for Meyer, who will continue to coach football on the high school level in the coming years. <\/span>Once Jordan has a system in place for interviewing and considering replacements, we’ll post a notice for all interested parties; in the meantime, we’d like to wish both Meyer and Jordan luck as they transition to new stages.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve learned that the Moore League is losing a head football coach, as Scott Meyer is stepping away from the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}