Rick Gagarin This is Me

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1. 1. www.theoldcoach.com

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   Published on: 1/1/2007   Last Visited: 11/10/2007

   In 1995, Poe added Rick Gagarin to the Faubion staff.
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   Gagarin was looking for a job after a short stint in Kaufman and Poe selected the young coach to work under Ronnie to learn that "McKinney Way."
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   Poe arranged for Ronnie and Gagarin to room together.
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   "Well Ronnie and I spent that whole coaching school playing golf," said Gagarin with a smile.
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   Williams instantly became a mentor for Gagarin.
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   "Gagarin became his ‘quote-unquote son' during that time," Kaspar said.
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   It's odd that Kaspar would use the son analogy, because Ronnie's actual son, Joe Ryan, played on the very first team that Ronnie and Gagarin would coach together - Faubion's 1995 seventh-grade football team.
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   When Dowell Middle School's first athletic director became available, Ronnie pushed for Gagarin's promotion.
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   "I remember sitting in a meeting with Coach Poe and he asked Ronnie if he thought I was ready," Gagarin said.
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   From his time under Ronnie, Gagarin used the same management style to create a notable coaching staff at Dowell.
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   Among the coaches under Gagarin at Dowell were current McKinney North basketball coach Darryll Craft, McKinney baseball coach Jeremy Price and Plano West wrestling coach Shawn Smith.
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   While Gagarin took the campus coordinator position at Dowell, Ronnie left the McKinney ISD to become an assistant at Van Alstyne.
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   Gagarin, his former prot/g/, had recently become the head football coach and athletic director at Melissa High. Gagarin wanted his former boss to join him in creating a new school from scratch.
   
   "When I got this job, I thought Ronnie was still at Canadian," Gagarin said.
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   Still, the chance to work with Gagarin was too perfect to pass up.
   
   "Rick kept calling, so finally Zach and I took a day off from school and drove up to Melissa," Ronnie said.
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   Zach approved the move, and both the father and son joined Gagarin in Melissa.
   
   In building a new program from scratch, Gagarin had to create his own staff. But it was a lot harder than he had originally anticipated.
   
   "If I could have, I would have just brought my old staff from Dowell with me," Gagarin said.
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   So once again, Gagarin leaned on Ronnie for help.
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   Joining Gagarin's staff during that period was Jeff Kasowski and Seth Stinson, who had served on Ronnie's staff at Van Alstyne.
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   When Gagarin found out that his former player was interested in a career change, he made another phone call.
   
   This time, he wanted to interview Joe Ryan for the quarterback coach position at Melissa. After careful deliberations, he became a Cardinal coach.
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   In 2006, Melissa went three rounds deep in its first trip to the playoffs, but health issues forced Gagarin to step down from his position.
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   Even though Gagarin is no longer the head coach, Ronnie looks after his former Faubion friend and gives him a few coaching responsibilities on Friday nights.
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   But as important as their coaching circles are, it's their underlying work ethic that connects Poe with his former assistants, Ronnie with his assistants, Gagarin with his assistants and so on.
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   "Whether you're a mentor or the mentored, it basically comes down to friendships," Gagarin said.

2. 2. Melissa ISD Home Office Staff

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   Published on: 12/29/2003   Last Visited: 12/29/2003

   Rick Gagarin
   
   Athletic Director
   
   rgargarin@ednet10.net

3. 3. texasfootball.com

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   Published on: 11/22/2006   Last Visited: 11/23/2006

   Clarksville (9-2): Head coach Rick Gagarin is doing a fine job at Melissa, which is benefiting from the northern sprawl in the Dallas area.