SUCCESSFUL HS COACH FIRED BECAUSE OF “GOD’S WILL”: What happens when you come back to coach at your old high school, and lead the football team to two straight state title games in your first two seasons?

You get fired, of course:

The TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT reports that Casey Weldon was let go by North Florida Christian School, just a few days after his team lost in the state title game - on a last-second 40-yard field goal that was the kicker’s first attempt all season.In an e-mail statement, school president and pastor Randy Ray basically claimed that God wanted Weldon fired: “It is the consensus of our school administration that this is God’s will for what North Florida Baptist Church is trying to do through the program of North Florida Christian School.”

The former Florida State QB and 1991 Heisman runner-up tried to remain positive about the surprise sacking, saying how much he loved the school and the kids he coached. But Weldon couldn’t help wonder, “If there had been a problem that was so bad, golly, I wish it would have been addressed back then, so I could have made a change.The firing of the popular coach also has many fans dumbfounded. One football mom had talked with other parents, and described the general feeling as “devastated”. She added, “I’ve watched my son really grow under the tutelage of Casey Weldon. I’m just deeply disappointed.”

In Weldon’s place, NFC hired Tim Cokely, who had led the Eagles to four straight championships before leaving for another coaching job in Georgia in 2004.

Cokely ended up with a subpar 14-18 record at Colquitt County High. Pastor Ray added that the old coach’s new availability was “incidental, not integral” to Weldon’s whacking.

Hey, it’s God’s will. Or the will of a coach kicking out the new guy to get his old job back.