Bill Rometo will be back as Plum's head football coach after all.
The Plum school board opened up Rometo's job and started taking applications in December, then voted, 6-2, to give him the job back Tuesday.
"He's a good person," said Sue Caldwell, the board's athletic chair."He presented ideas to the board to help improve the program."
Caldwell voted to retain Rometo along with board president Rena Lynn Koteski, Tom McGough, Jan Schoeneberger, Jeff Matthews and Paul Olijar. Gary Horner and Barbara Krause voted against Rometo and Dan Lioy was absent.
Rometo has a 68-74-3 record as Plum's head coach and spent the 15 years before that as an assistant coach for the Mustangs, but the team has gone 2-8 each of the last two seasons. Plum last made the postseason in 2001, going 7-3 and losing to North Allegheny in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs.
Parents and players on the team have spoken out on Rometo's behalf in the months since the job was opened up.
"I've known the guy a long time, practically my whole life," said Plum junior defensive tackle Matt Kachurik. "It's a good feeling to know he'll be back to coach me my senior year. We've been in the system since ninth grade and we have a better chance to get back to where we want to be than if they had hired a new coach."
