Nelligan steps down
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- July
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As you might have seen on lohud.com today, Kennedy boys basketball coach Tom Nelligan has resigned after 13 seasons.
Nelligan said he felt “it was time” to step down.
“You get to a point where you feel like you want to make a change, and I reached that point. This was something that I had been considering for some time.”
Nelligan has no plans to coach anywhere next season but didn’t rule out the possibility of coaching elsewhere when our reporter, Jeff Gold, spoke to him this week.
Some of my best memories from coaching high school basketball in this area involved coach Nelligan. His 2004 team will stand out among the most magical seasons I’ve ever witnessed. We get caught up in the teams that unexpectedly win the section or reach the state final four. That Kennedy team shocked everyone and won Federations. A remarkable accomplishment. Of course, there was the 2005 team that got into the brawl up at New Paltz, which was one of the craziest events I ever covered.
Nelligan’s teams were always well-coached, disciplined and classy. I’ll definitely miss the postgame interviews and especially the post-interview discussions (off the record) he and I would have. He was a brutally honest guy and one I have a great deal of respect for.
Who will replace Nelligan? I’d have to imagine Colin Hanahoe, his top assistant, is a prime candidate. But I also think every free agent candidate — and perhaps a few that already have jobs — will throw their hat into the ring. Kennedy is a big time job considering it’s a private school playing in a public league.
Anybody want to throw any names out there? I’d be interested…
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Good Luck Coach:
You are a class act I saw you in the parking lot at the wake for John James Maher talking to another class act Coach Bill Thom.
I will miss watching you coach Basketball.
This post by"kennedy fan"needs to be taken off. This place is ridicolous for letting people make attacks on coaches and even worst the kids.I hope this place never gets sued.
what fight up at new paltz?
I agree whole heartedly with paulie walnuts.
When the talent ran out, so did Nelligan.
Tonight at the Brewster Sports Summer League. They lost to Valhalla by one in OT after leading most of the game. It was agreat game to watch Valhalla deserved to win. Kennedy played hard their torrid first have shooting cooled down in the 2nd half. My point is this there were a handful of parents already being way to critical of Coach Hanahoe. My son played the game before so we stuck around to watch, it was like the parents were looking for anything to be critical about. Give the kid a break its only summer league.