Myers steps down after four seasons as the Barrie coach. He led the once struggling program to a 97-39 record during that time, including the school's lone Potomac Valley Athletic Conference boys basketball championship. The Mustangs compiled a 29-7 overall record that winter, including a perfect 16-0 mark in regular-season PVAC play.

"It was a good decision for me," Myers said. "They were looking to go in another direction. They have a new AD. I thought I did enough at Barrie in a lot of ways as far as what I wanted to do. I want to thank [former Barrie AD] Jaye Cohen for giving me the opportunity to coach at Barrie."

"He left on his own," added first-year Barrie athletics director Gene Rotberg, who has since hired former Naval Academy, Good Counsel and Gonzaga assistant coach Jack Mitchell. "We were trying to basically have him be a part of the whole school. He was not interested and wanted to coach in his own style. Basically, he resigned on his own. Certainly we wanted him to remain."

Myers, a stern but fair coach, immediately turned around the fortunes of the Barrie program his first season, leading the squad to a 12-12 record that included a PVAC tournament win. His next season, the Mustangs rolled to a 17-7 mark and reached the semifinals of the PVAC tournament.

With Josh Colwell, Frank Mason and Bobby Sharafeddin, a trio of All-Gazette second-team selections, leading the way, Barrie rolled through the PVAC competition in 200-01, finishing its impressive run with a 52-28 win over Jewish Day in the tournament final.

Myers' last season was anything but smooth, however. For starters, Colwell was disallowed from playing in PVAC games because he was in his fifth year of high-school basketball. Then came the revelation that another unidentified player was also in his fifth season, leading to the suspension of Barrie from PVAC play at the end of last year through the upcoming season.

The Mustangs had won their first 13 league games and held a 19-9 record overall last season before the issue was raised. PVAC president Tom O'Mara said then that the suspension process started when an athletic director in the league brought the situation to his attention.

He then asked Barrie athletic director Jay Cohen to look into the matter. Cohen discovered the violation after speaking to the offending player's former athletic director, who the year before stated the player had two years of eligibility remaining but he later changed that finding upon further inquire this winter. Cohen immediately suspended the offending player from conference play.

Barrie appealed the suspension but it was denied. The Potomac Valley Athletic Conference's Board of Directors, comprised of the school's athletic directors, did, however, allow the school's players to be considered for all-league honors.

While the Mustangs were unable to defend their PVAC title, the season ended on a good note as three players, Colwell, D.J. Brooks and Phil Masone committed to play basketball next season at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Morehouse College (Ga.) and Lebanon Valley College (Pa.), respectively.

The year before Mason and Sharafeddian signed with John Hopkins University and Derrick Bell left Barrie to play for Eastern Nazarene College (Mass.) three years ago.

"I'm going to miss it," said Myers, who is a teaching assistant at Sherwood High School. "I'll miss the kids. I'll miss the families of the kids. I had an enjoyable four years. Manazy of the young men touched my basketball program in a special way. They were great kids, all first-class citizens at Barrie and in the community. I appreciate the time and effort I put in there. I wish the best of luck to the kids who stayed."

Although Myers has nothing in the works right now, he is "looking at some places" and could "pop up somewhere" as a head coach some where in the future.