MCHS baseball coach Vidos resigns

Morgan City High School baseball coach Tim Vidos said Tuesday he resigned his coaching and teaching position with the school a day earlier, effective immediately, to care for his father.
“It’s just things have been eating at me for a while,” he said. “I got my dad to worry about, and the time that I have to put into the program, I just feel like it’s best that I get out and look after my dad,” he said.
Morgan City Athletic Director Scott Tregle said Tuesday morning that the team’s assistant coaches, Jordan Rhodes, Tim Daigle, Sam Hawkins and Brandon Harden, will coach the team the remainder of the season, and then Morgan City will look to hire a new coach this summer.
“It’s just unfortunate with Vidos that he (had to) step down but next man up and we’ll see how that works out,” he said.
Morgan City baseball has been hit hard recently with coaching changes as the program has been through multiple coaches since Marc Gonzalez left the helm of the baseball program following the summer baseball season of 2013.
However, Tregle said that the problem is not just a Morgan City problem as he has heard many schools throughout the parish are having trouble finding and keeping coaches.
The latest baseball coaching change for Morgan City, however, comes at a point in the season where Morgan City had appeared to have turned the corner after a rough start.
While Morgan City (10-11) started the 2015 campaign 3-8, they have won 7 of their last 10 and currently lead District 7-4A with a 5-1 mark.
“If people aren’t going to understand the timing of this decision, I understand that, but when you’re dealing with your family, everyday counts and you never know if they’re going to be there the next day,” Vidos said.
The Tigers are set to play at South Terrebonne today at 4 p.m. in a makeup game.
Vidos, who was hired last summer, is a Morgan City High School graduate.
He returned to Morgan City in June 2013 and coached during the 2014 season.
Vidos, who also resigned his position as world geography teacher, said that he would return to coaching but he doesn’t know when or where. He said it would be a lesser role somewhere that he can coach baseball and spend time with his dad.
Tregle said he is confident the team would be OK.
“The kids, they’ve been playing baseball their (whole) life,” Tregle said. “They have different coaches every year and different travel ball coaches so basically they’ll be OK.”