2 Urban Girls hates to report the resignation of Inglewood Boy’s Varsity Coach Patrick Roy. Roy has coached the team for nearly three decades. Sources at Inglewood High tell this blog that the ongoing dispute with Principal Debbie Tate led to his departure. Assistant Coach “Will” will take the reigns of the team.
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Sources included that Roy made disparaging remarks about Ms. Tate when she left as the school’s Principal a few years ago to lead the district’s adult school.
Former Principal Kyle Douglas left the position vacant last school year when he accepted a position in Pasadena Unified, which led Inglewood Unified to return Ms. Tate to her former position.
The issues first came to this blog’s attention at the beginning of this school year. Sources shared in October that the dispute was resolved.
According to Eric Sodenheimer, of the LA Times, Roy shared:
“It wasn’t worth me drawing the kids in,” he said.
Roy, an Inglewood graduate, has helped more than 85 basketball players receive college scholarships through the years. His teams won three Southern Section championships and he was the high school coach for NBA standout Paul Pierce and Harold Miner.
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Roy was Pierces teammate, not coach. His embezzlement is long suspected, Tates suspicion, valid at least, and Roy’s litigation success, lasting examples of Inglewoods bureaucratic self-inflicted causuaties. Tate has weathered these storms simply with the integrity that comes with presence. Inglewoods historical education tax structure has long been vulnerable to administrative robbery, in the form of false professionalism exemplified by skeletal funding not over seen by reliable independent review. Tates true commitment to medicinally manage impossible student needs, while being an uncelebrated catalyst for positive youth outcomes, has been a sore subject for many a grifter to highlight, lest their honey-hole be exposed. Pats a nice guy, and three decades of autonomy with an endless supply of elite athletes begs the question: what’s in it for him? I guarantee Tate has the goods. She’s tough in order to save lives; he’s an opportunist who’s tenure as a coach, for those initiated, called no plays, and meticulously operated his teams independent of administrators. I know because I was their AD for a couple of years. He was planning to nail Tate, bc he’s not dumb; Any reaction by the district, short of a Debbie Tate statue, would be a blind revisionist take on the facts: Tate has negotiated more positive student outcomes under poor circumstances than any poser like Roy would ever care to notice. Just because she couldn’t prove it doesn’t discount her toughness with concern to significant popularity opportunities. If Tate says he did that, he did. Breaks my heart; par for the course; Inglewood cannibilizes their resources to enrich semi-anonymous cyclical management opportunists. Again.
So, you were an incumbent Athletic Director that watched the supposed corruption and kept collecting a check. Thanks for sharing. Defamation and slander spreads by misinformation but it’s very peculiar as to how you can co-sign without taking responsibility for conducting a thorough investigation. Wait, you know it’s true because you heard it. There will always be those that work in the house rather than among the fields.