I know many of you are asking yourself this and, frankly, so am I.
Was Bob Brackett forced to withdraw his application for the football job at New London or was it of his own volition?
Brackett told me that it was because he still has other things in his educational career to pursue and that his being a football coach would certainly hinder if not make those pursuits impossible.
But let's look at the writing on the wall too.
A rather large group of parents and players went to the Board of Education and asked them to re-instate Jack Cochran as head coach. That group also included some of Brackett's (probably the correct term here is Cochran's) staff.
The Board of Education left the decision up to Superintendent Christopher Clouet whose salary is made possible by the Board of Ed through the taxpayers. The taxpayers spoke and Clouet had to listen.
Brackett's salary is also made possible by the taxpayers and it's pretty clear he did see the writing on the wall.
In everyone's life, however, you have to take a walk on the wild side. Sometimes the move you make turns out to be a very positive, life changing, event. In others, it turns out to be a short-lived, had-to-do-it at the time, decision.
Brackett accepts that this was one of the latter as he knew his chances of being retained as coach were 50/50 at best. He also felt, at the time however, that to turn down such an opportunity to coach a New London High football team was something he couldn't let pass by him.
Without decisions like these, life can be boring.
You have to credit Brackett for taking the plunge and you have to hope that Cochran comes back as the same born-to-coach kind of guy, only this time he carries a rule book in his pocket.