(1-4-24) For the second time this week the Eldorado (Illinois) boys basketball team has had a game postponed. According to the high school’s Facebook page Friday night’s game with Carmi-White County has been postponed and will be rescheduled.

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The school has limited who is able to comment on the posting of the game being postponed—

Only people who follow this Page for more than 24 hours can comment.

Next week the Eagles are scheduled to play at West Frankfort and then at home against Edwards County.

The game scheduled for this past Tuesday with Mt. Carmel was the first to be cancelled due to the school district special Board of Education meeting that night. At that meeting the entire boys basketball coaching staff was dismissed due to an incident at the Eldorado Holiday Tournament.

According to a WPSD TV story four of the five seniors on the team, the 5th is still deciding if he will stay, have decided to no longer be a part of the team.

Eldorado hired Rod Wallace to fill-in as the interim head coach replacing Josh Bradley.

Wallace was an assistant boys basketball coach at Galatia for one year (1998-99) and became the head coach for the Bearcats from 1999-2008. He was women’s head basketball coach at Southeastern Illinois College at Harrisburg (2008-09- 2010-11), winning 20 games in his third season.

Superintendent of Eldorado Unit 4 Schools Ryan Hobbs told the Southern Illinois llinoisan –

“My only hope is that sometime soon we start the healing process. Our community has been divided… and torn apart.

These coaches, they all have families; these basketball players have families. It’s hard to put in perspective how much this has affected our town.

[Some members of the community] are accusing the board of reacting to the social media mob. In all honesty, it’s part of the society that we live in.

If [these comments] were being said in a school setting among 12-year-olds, we would consider it bullying. But here it’s among 30, 40, 50 year olds.”

Dismissed head coach Josh Bradley, who graduated from Eldorado, has 176 career wins. This year the Eagles stand at 5-8.

Bradley has been successful during his time at Eldorado…in 2017 and 2018 he won consecutive Illinois Basketball Coaches Association District 21 Coach Of The Year honors. Bradley led the Eagles in 2018 to a 29-3 record, which included two-straight Black Diamond Conference East titles, two-straight EHT Tournament championships and two straight regional title victories.