Bill Belton tabbed as next St. Augustine Prep (NJ) football coach
According to a statement released by the school on Wednesday morning, Bill Belton has been named as St. Augustine Prep (NJ) football coach
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Recall he was a bit a jerk about Rutgers.
"On Tuesday, Rutgers wide receiver Leonte Carroo took offense to Bill Belton saying he wanted to play big-time football, so he went to Penn State instead of staying home."
“They’ve been chirping all week in the media, so they asked for a big-time game and they got one,” Belton said after rushing for 36 yards and the touchdown on 15 carries.
At Big Ten Media Day on July 30, Belton was asked about recruiting, his New Jersey roots and did he ever consider playing for Rutgers. Belton saying, “Rutgers recruited me, but I wanted to play big-time football, so I came to Penn State,” did not sit well with Carroo or Johnathan Aiken, both of whom had their own feelings on the matter on Tuesday. Carroo and Aiken were happy to respond on Tuesday.
He’ll certainly elevate the talent of the program and bring in more kids. But he’s not going to have the most talented team week in/out when he gets to the playoffs…with Winslow the few times they played teams with equal or better talent they lost.
He’ll be dealing with new issues - alumni, boosters, behavioral/academic standards of the school…
I don’t know much about Prep - but they seem like the school that won’t accept a student just because of they’re good at football.
Would like to see this workout and have a better NPA.
Things sure have changed at St Augie. Your second paragraph above sums up many things that will be new for Beltin to navigate. The Augustinian friars/brothers will not put up with any negative attention brought upon prep so Beltin needs to choose carefully who and what he brings in.
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Since they are considering public coaches, I wonder if St. Augustine went after the coach at Washington Township, who was New Jersey coach of the year? I'm glad he didn't leave, he's a good guy...
https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports...e-nj-football-coach-of-the-year-for-2025.html
https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports...e-nj-football-coach-of-the-year-for-2025.html
I just wonder how Rutgers friendly he'll be.
Since I don't have any reason to root for St. Augustine Prep except for how it sends talent Rutgers way
I root for Belton's success/failure there based on St. Augustine Prep's relationship with Rutgers
Quanzell Lambert and Myles Nash were added to his Winslow staff a few years ago, so he might help Rutgers along with (I'm sure) he'll be pointing talent PSU's way
Since I don't have any reason to root for St. Augustine Prep except for how it sends talent Rutgers way
I root for Belton's success/failure there based on St. Augustine Prep's relationship with Rutgers
Quanzell Lambert and Myles Nash were added to his Winslow staff a few years ago, so he might help Rutgers along with (I'm sure) he'll be pointing talent PSU's way
Really unlikeable with those comments, especially for someone from that crudhole where you're already starting off as unlikeable
YEEAH… They’re going to make at least one of the Big Boys up here make that three hour drive to Cumberland County in November. Might finally make it to December at MetLife.
Excited to see - we haven’t really seem much success from B.B./Winslow when they didn’t have the talent advantage (happened like 4 times in the past 3 years).
Might be different when they can “legally” get kids from Jersey, Pa, Delaware. They have the facilities to be able to compete regionally, let alone in December at MetLife.