Twenty9
09-20-2005, 06:28 AM
Frustrated Seitz leaves Koyotes
Finances a reason for resignation
By Rick Peterson
The Capital-Journal
Kansas Koyotes head coach Warren Seitz has resigned after leading the team to two consecutive undefeated American Professional Football League championships, citing several differences, mainly financial, with Koyotes owner Ralph Adams.
"It all comes down to finances, and what Ralph was doing with the money," said Seitz, who told Adams last week he would step down.
One of Seitz's major complaints was that he and the Koyotes' players were owed money for more than two months, with the 2005 season ending on July 16. Adams also was late with the players' payroll during the season, according to Seitz.
Seitz said Adams paid him the money he was owed at 3 p.m. Monday, but money is still owed to the Koyotes' players.
"It seemed like a lot of people that I know he owes money to and I'm tired of that. I don't want to work with that," Seitz said. "Over the last three years, every year he's owed (the players) money."
Attempts to reach Adams on Monday at the Koyotes' office and on his cell phone were unsuccessful.
Seitz, who is in his 13th season as head coach at Topeka West, cited additional organizational problems as reasons for his resignation from the indoor team.
"It starts with we never had the time in the Expo (Landon Arena) because of turf problems at the first of the year," Seitz said. "And then the guys were disgruntled throughout the year because they weren't getting paid, so their attitude, you never knew what it was like. Then, at times, it was the quality of opponent that Ralph brought in as a substitute.
"Nobody wanted to embarrass themselves or the other team with some of the teams that he brought in. That was a problem, too. We were just always fighting battles like that."
Seitz also said the players encountered problems with their insurance, and money raised by Topeka sponsors was used to fund other teams in the league.
"I don't think that is right, for the Koyotes to be shorted, but yet him try to sponsor and help out Wichita and Nebraska and the Missouri Minutemen in particular," he said.
On the field Seitz helped the Koyotes capture their second and third straight undefeated APFL crowns.
"I enjoyed the indoor game and working with the players," he said. "A lot of times in the high school game there's a lot of running, and in the indoor game we really had to throw it and probably did 60 to 65 percent of the time at least. It was just fun to work with that quality of athlete."
The bottom line, though, is that the Koyotes' job didn't work out as Seitz thought it would.
"On the field it did," he said. "Off the field, no, we didn't get what we were promised. Nobody did."
Although he hasn't heard any official word, Seitz said he did not expect many assistant coaches or players from this year's team to return next season.
"I think if Topeka has a team you'll see a big turnover," he said.
Finances a reason for resignation
By Rick Peterson
The Capital-Journal
Kansas Koyotes head coach Warren Seitz has resigned after leading the team to two consecutive undefeated American Professional Football League championships, citing several differences, mainly financial, with Koyotes owner Ralph Adams.
"It all comes down to finances, and what Ralph was doing with the money," said Seitz, who told Adams last week he would step down.
One of Seitz's major complaints was that he and the Koyotes' players were owed money for more than two months, with the 2005 season ending on July 16. Adams also was late with the players' payroll during the season, according to Seitz.
Seitz said Adams paid him the money he was owed at 3 p.m. Monday, but money is still owed to the Koyotes' players.
"It seemed like a lot of people that I know he owes money to and I'm tired of that. I don't want to work with that," Seitz said. "Over the last three years, every year he's owed (the players) money."
Attempts to reach Adams on Monday at the Koyotes' office and on his cell phone were unsuccessful.
Seitz, who is in his 13th season as head coach at Topeka West, cited additional organizational problems as reasons for his resignation from the indoor team.
"It starts with we never had the time in the Expo (Landon Arena) because of turf problems at the first of the year," Seitz said. "And then the guys were disgruntled throughout the year because they weren't getting paid, so their attitude, you never knew what it was like. Then, at times, it was the quality of opponent that Ralph brought in as a substitute.
"Nobody wanted to embarrass themselves or the other team with some of the teams that he brought in. That was a problem, too. We were just always fighting battles like that."
Seitz also said the players encountered problems with their insurance, and money raised by Topeka sponsors was used to fund other teams in the league.
"I don't think that is right, for the Koyotes to be shorted, but yet him try to sponsor and help out Wichita and Nebraska and the Missouri Minutemen in particular," he said.
On the field Seitz helped the Koyotes capture their second and third straight undefeated APFL crowns.
"I enjoyed the indoor game and working with the players," he said. "A lot of times in the high school game there's a lot of running, and in the indoor game we really had to throw it and probably did 60 to 65 percent of the time at least. It was just fun to work with that quality of athlete."
The bottom line, though, is that the Koyotes' job didn't work out as Seitz thought it would.
"On the field it did," he said. "Off the field, no, we didn't get what we were promised. Nobody did."
Although he hasn't heard any official word, Seitz said he did not expect many assistant coaches or players from this year's team to return next season.
"I think if Topeka has a team you'll see a big turnover," he said.