Tom Dineen gave me a call Friday and announced his replacement at Buffalo Grove. It is his longtime assistant Pat Dudle, who has been on staff for the past eight years under Dineen and is also the girls soccer coach at BG.
"It is a good choice," Dineen said. "We were grooming him for this and we knew this day was coming."
Dineen announced last year that the 2007-08 season would be his last. The Bison finished third in the Class 4A state tournament.
But Dineen, who was also BG's boys golf coach, said if the right job comes up in the future he would consider coaching again.
"The school made it clear that I'm done," Dineen said. "Some people have called me, but I'll probably sit out next year. I don't want to coach just for the sake of coaching. It has to be the right situation."