Naclerio out of<\/a> the gym in full view of both teams, parents and fans, court papers reveal.<\/p>\nNaclerio is 2 wins away from tying the city record of 972 for most coaching wins amongst all high school basketball coaches across the Big Apple. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n
The veteran coach \u2014 known for pacing up and down the sidelines in an orange polo and blue pants \u2014 was \u201csurrounded\u201d by security after arriving at the game and forced to stay in an adjacent room while his Judges prevailed over John Bowne, 65-52, his lawyer wrote in court papers.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Naclerio received a letter from Cardozo brass saying that\u00a0they\u2019ve decided his punishment should be a two-game suspension \u2014 which would include the Dec. 6 game and another game he missed retroactively. He would also be allowed to stay on as coach, but the ruling would still stay on his record as a dark mark.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis conduct is unacceptable and represents a serious lapse in professional judgment,\u201d Principal Colby wrote in the letter laying out the punishment. <\/p>\n
Naclerio denies any wrongdoing \u2014 and his attorney said he was considering what his legal options are going forward to clear his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this point in Ron\u2019s career, parents and players \u2014\u00a0 they recruit him. He doesn\u2019t recruit,\u201d his lawyer Thomas Rome told The Post, about the recruiting violation claims.<\/p>\n
Naclerio\u2019s quest for the record was briefly halted last month after he was suspended on Dec. 3, following rumors of the legendary coach of 51 years improperly recruiting students to join his program. X\/@DozoHoops<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the facts, he has completely rebutted every single allegation, but the principal came to a different conclusion for reasons that I think have nothing to do with the testimony and the rebuttal, but for other reasons,\u201d he added, calling the accusations \u201cmade up.\u201d<\/p>\n
A city investigator concluded on Nov. 26 that Naclerio, who is also a substitute teacher at Cardozo, had breached city rules saying city employees cannot \u201crecruit, encourage, or entice a student-athlete to transfer from one high school to another high school for athletic purposes,\u201d court papers say.<\/p>\n
Several players interviewed as part of the probe said that Naclerio had recruited them after seeing them play at other schools or nearly tournaments in city parks, the DOE probe claimed.<\/p>\n
One 17-year-old junior said that he goes to other high schools to recruit players for Cordozo, the investigator wrote.<\/p>\n
The anonymous complainant who had reported Naclerio had alleged that \u201cmost of the team is comprised of students who transferred during their junior or senior year,\u201d the DOE prober said.<\/p>\n
Naclerio downplayed the seriousness of the recruiting probe in a brief interview Friday afternoon, hours before his team was set to tip off in a home game against Forest Hills, where he was seeking win no.971.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in my second half century [of coaching], 51 years, you know. You have plenty of highs and you have plenty of lows,\u201d he told The Post over the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was two people [that] made an anonymous phone call,\u201d he said of the origin of the recruiting investigation. \u201cAnd of course\u2026.they have to look into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, the rest is history,\u201d he added. \u201cI mean, I am back coaching, you know, which is good.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Naclerio has won two city titles \u2014 1999 and 2014 \u2014 and has produced four NBA players \u2014 Rafer Alston, Royal Ivey, Duane Causwell and James Southerland \u2014 while coaching and training numerous others such as Metta World Peace, Elton Brand and Joakim Noah.<\/p>\n
The coach is currently chasing Jack Curran, former coach at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, who holds the record for the most wins in New York City high school history, with 972.<\/p>\n
Naclerio is seeking history on Martin Luther King Weekend decades after his father Emil Naclerio, a thoracic surgeon at Harlem Hospital, spent over two hours in surgery saving the life of Martin Luther King Jr. after he was stabbed by a deranged assailant in 1958. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a lot of court drama \u2014 even for a team called the Judges. A legendary Queens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[47032,57,9,24,63,122,124,123,47033,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-102898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-high-school-basketball","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-ron-naclerio","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}