Cardinal O’Hara’s BJ Hogan is out as the school’s head football coach, but retains the title of athletic director. (Pete Bannan/MediaNews Group)
By Matt Smith
BJ Hogan received a text Friday morning, summoning him to meet with Cardinal O’Hara president Mike Connor. What followed took Hogan by complete surprise.
The head football coach at his alma mater since November of 2014, Hogan was informed that he would not be returning for an eighth season. It was made clear that Hogan is not resigning, but will be fired. He will retain his full-time position as the director of athletics at O’Hara. The decision was not at all mutual, Hogan said.
Connor, who could not be immediately reached Friday evening, cited game performance as the reason for Hogan’s dismissal, according to Hogan.
“I walked in (to the meeting) and they said they wanted to make a change in leadership to the football program based on, ‘on-field performance,’” Hogan said. “And I said if this was going to happen, it should have happened two days after our last game. I told them I am not resigning and they’re going to fire me. It’s a separate job from the AD job. … It happened so fast today, I’m still processing it. We told the team at 1:10 and I found out at 10:55. It came completely out of the blue.”
