Frost Brothers leave Riverside Football

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Christ Church lures Frost

Riverside football coach to take over Cavaliers

By Bob Castello
STAFF WRITER
bcastell@greenvillenews.com (bcastell@greenvillenews.com)



The Frost brothers are headed to Christ Church Episcopal School.

Don Frost, Riverside’s athletic director and football coach for the past six years, was hired as football coach at Christ Church on Thursday.

He’ll replace Ashley Haskins, who resigned after compiling a 56-82 record in 14 seasons.

Larry Frost, a former Greenville High coach and an assistant under his brother at Riverside for the last three years, will become Christ Church’s offensive coordinator.
“We basically told them it was gonna be a package deal for us,” Don Frost said. “It was either both of us or neither of us.”

Don Frost led Riverside to a 26-39 record in his six seasons, including 8-5 and 9-3 the last two years, respectively. In 2006, the Warriors won a playoff game for the first time in 16 years and advanced to the third round.

In 2007, they were co-champions of the Peach Blossom AAA Region, the first such title for the program in 17 years.

“They’ll be fine at Riverside, and we still love Riverside, and we always will,” Don Frost said. “It’ll hold a special place in my heart and Larry’s heart. Those kids are fantastic; the parents are fantastic, and the administration’s been just great.

“This was just an opportunity that presented itself. This is gonna allow me to retire from public education and still coach.”

Don Frost said he has one year remaining before he can retire from public education, and he will buy out the year. Larry Frost is already retired and had been working on year-to-year contracts.

“This was something I couldn’t pass up and Larry couldn’t pass up,” Don said. “This will probably be our last stop.

“We’re just really excited about going to Christ Church. The facilities are top-notch. The people have been extremely gracious. We’ll come in there and get it rolling.”

Riverside principal Andrew Crowley said his school would begin looking immediately for replacements.

“They’ve done a tremendous job for us,” Crowley said. “The relationships that they have cultivated with our student-athletes is phenomenal. We’re just proud of them, and we’re happy that they’ve gotten an opportunity to do something that they want to do. We hate to see them go, but with change comes opportunity, and that’s a good thing.”

Crowley said he did not know whether the school would be looking for one person or two to fill the football coach and athletic director positions.

Christ Church also announced that R.J. Beach would take over as athletic director July 1. He will replace Travis Perry, who is leaving to serve as defensive coordinator at Greer High. Perry had been Greer’s head football coach before coming to Christ Church.

“Christ Church obviously has had an outstanding athletic program for a long time,” Beach said. “Having the opportunity to be the athletic director here is a position I’m very proud of.”

Beach will continue as coach of the school’s boys basketball and golf teams. He has led the basketball team to seven region titles in 12 seasons and has guided the golf team to three state championships.


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[2000grad]

It must be a money thing. Leaving a 3A school to go to a A/SCISA school.

[COCKDIESEL]

It must be a money thing. Leaving a 3A school to go to a A/SCISA school.
You don't work in scisa for the money, trust me.

[donbgamecock]

You don't work in scisa for the money, trust me.

It still may be a money thing. How about if he is collecting retirement from the public system and plus his salary. Who knows, the new school may have come close to his old salary. That would be a good raise.

[COCKDIESEL]

It still may be a money thing. How about if he is collecting retirement from the public system and plus his salary. Who knows, the new school may have come close to his old salary. That would be a good raise.
That is a possiblity but he would be drawing from his retirement early which could hurt him in the long run. Also with the school getting an endowment from the church and not just running on student tuition they could possibly afford a little more than the average scisa school. But the loss of his state benefits probably more than makes up for that.
Just saying he isn't getting rich by coaching in scisa.

[Gamecock Rob]

Fantastic, wonder if they will make Bates Head Coach of both Football and Baseball. We need to hire Tanneyhill to coach and Brandon to OC.

[duckhuntersc]

That is a possiblity but he would be drawing from his retirement early which could hurt him in the long run. Also with the school getting an endowment from the church and not just running on student tuition they could possibly afford a little more than the average scisa school. But the loss of his state benefits probably more than makes up for that.
Just saying he isn't getting rich by coaching in scisa.How is that? It says in the article that Don is one year from retiring and he plans to buy that year back, and Larry is already retired. Larry was on the TERI program, which was created for teachers, you retire and still work on yearly contracts. Which means you get a retirement check + salary. There is no retirement age for School employees, they just have to work 28 years. I know a few 48 year olds who are already retired school employees collecting 2 checks.

[2000grad]

You don't work in scisa for the money, trust me.

You might be surprised at the stipends in private schools vs public. Christ Church has NO money problems.

[Gamecock Rob]

My brother, a RHS student, said he heard a number of 250000 over 4 years. I dont know if that is for Don or Larry or both of them. THat is a pretty good amount of cash if true.