After the tragic death of football coach Nick Deane, the Seaholm football team was in search of a new head coach just a few weeks before the start of summer practices.
The team decided to hire a coach that was already on the staff, instead of bringing a new guy in. The man they hired was first year assistant Jim Pobursky.Although this was going to be Pobursky?s first year on the Seaholm football staff, overall it be his 43rd year of coaching football.
His previous stints as a football coach include being the head coach at Hazel Park, an outside linebackers coach for Wayne State University, and an assistant coach at Troy High, where he met Nick Deane.
At the time, Deane was the offensive coordinator for Troy High and Pobursky was a coach at Harper Woods Notre Dame.
But after Notre Dame closed, Deane asked Pobursky to come coach at Troy with him, and they formed a close friendship.
After Deane left Troy to join the Seaholm football staff, Pobursky retired.
In January, when Deane got the head coaching job at Seaholm, he convinced Pobursky to come out of retirement and join his staff as an assistant coach.
?He asked me that if he ever got a head coaching job, if I would come coach with him,? Pobursky said. ?He called me to tell me that he got the Head Coaching job at Seaholm so I came and joined him.?
Unfortunately, Deane was not able to coach a game as the maples head coach after he passed away over Memorial Day weekend.
The Monday following the funeral Pobursky sat down with Seaholm Athletic Director Aaron Frank to discuss the future of the football team, and he was offered the Head Coaching position.
Pobursky has been one of the facilitators in the football tech classes during this third trimester, so the current players are familiar with his coaching techniques.
?He?s an old-school coach with lots of knowledge and experience of the game [football],? junior Jack Apap said.
Pobursky is looking forward continuing what Deane started here at Seaholm.
?I want to continue the program that Nick [Deane] initiated in January,? Pobursky said. ?We are continuing the Leadership Academy, we are working hard in football tech? It is a continuation of what he started.?
Junior John Glazier believes that it should be a smooth to transition to the new coach.
?They have a lot of the same tendencies,? Glazier said. ?It should be very easy to adapt.?
Apap also believes that this new mentality originally brought in by Deane will bring a different attitude to the maples.
?We will have a lot more structured practices,? Apap said. ?Our team will be more discipline.?
So far, Pobursky has been impressed with what he has seen so far with his players in the football tech classes.
?I?m very pleased with the work ethic of everyone in the class,? Pobursky said. ?They are getting bigger and stronger, which is our goal?.We have kids that are getting singled out by division one recruiters. We have kids that could possibly play at the next level.?
When it comes to the up-coming season, Pobursky was hesitant to make any predictions. But he believes that making the playoffs are one of the team?s goals.
?As a coach you are hesitant to make predictions because there are things that happen that you don?t anticipate,? Pobursky said. ?But I do think that making the playoffs is a realistic goal for this team.?
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