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Post by olcoach53 on Jan 27, 2015 12:15:13 GMT -6
I am an assistant coach at a small school in a small town in North Carolina. While searching for coaches my boss approached me and told me that he had somebody coming in for an interview to help coach football and teach. Me being me and having a little more technological experience than our head coach Googled the mans name and turned up a sexual misconduct case in Florida. Needless to say we told said gentleman to not bother interviewing.
Point of this thread, has this ever happened to anybody before? With Google and Facebook and the internet being what it is now, it is not very easy to "sweep" these situations under the rug anymore.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jan 27, 2015 13:40:23 GMT -6
Kind of the opposite now I'd say. If you have a semi-common name you can almost guarantee someone with the same name has done something dumb. I suppose if you have a really common name you can get away with things because you become ungoogleable.
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 27, 2015 13:58:16 GMT -6
Every district here checks fingerprints and you go through a background check before you're cleared to coach
I assumed this would be common everywhere
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Post by coachgtiller on Jan 27, 2015 14:06:57 GMT -6
The HC at my last school had a common name and in Missouri there's what's called "CaseNet," I'm sure other states have it. But if you searched his name it showed up for several DWI's. Luckily for him, the other guy had a different middle name and was from a part of the state that our HC had never lived. Of course it was something we always heckled him about.
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