At Hamilton’s practice the other day, I chatted with a fellow media brethren, followed by a Huskies school administrator. Both have been around here a long time and knows the East Valley high school football scene pretty well.
The conversations were independent of one another, but every 15 seconds a different topic, question or subject was broached.
Except for Bernie Busken and Basha. That conversation lasted several minutes.
I was probably the harshest on Basha for hiring Busken (moreso than Busken himself who had every right to go after jobs here), but either …

You can take the coach out of the school, but you can’t take the coach away from the kids.
From the minute he and Basha parted ways, former football coach Tim McBurney – who was at the school since it opened in 2002 until he was replaced by Bernie Busken this spring – he’s vowed to continue coaching somewhere.
He could be two weeks away from taking over the Phoenix Camelback program.
All that’s holding it up is the need for an available teaching job (physical education) at the school. McBurney said it’s …