Breaking: Peyton Pelluer Reinstated as Head Coach at Skyline after Reports Link Parents of Backup QB to Removal Campaign
A senior lost the quarterback competition to a sophomore transfer. Parents went for the coach's job, despite the fact that the starting QB leads league in passing for first place Spartans.
1:15 PM Peyton Pelluer officially reinstated as head coach of Skyline Spartans. aawaiting comment from the coach.
12:45 pm Updates: J425 Confirms and Reports the Following:
Sources confirm to J425 that the complaint against Pelleur can be sourced in part to a Skyline booster club-associated dad mad that his senior QB son… is backing up the sophomore starter…. Sophomore transfer QB BEN ODOM arrived from Texas when his dad got a job in the staff of Jedd Fisch at Montlake….Odom won the starting job over Ericson, a senior with a dad — Todd Ericson — prominently tied to the Skyline booster club.
Varsity WA first reported on the QB controversy.
Odom, whose father is Brian Odom, the first-year Washington Huskies inside linebackers coach hired last February, moved in from Texas, and won the job over popular program senior Crew Ericson in the offseason.
Odom, one of ten sophomores in prominent roles for the upstart Spartans, has gone on to am outstanding campaign, leading the Kingco Crown Division in passing yards and total offense while guiding the Spartans to a 5-2 first place spot atop the division.
Milles also reports that Pelleur is seen as a shoe in for Kingco coach of the year and “a darkhorse for state coach of the year” honors.
Yesterday, the Skyline booster club published a post stating that they had nothing to do with the campaign to remove Pelluer. Comments were turned off on the unsigned post. Todd Ericson was removed from portions of the site and Ericson’s Instagram account went private.
11:45 am - The Friday suspension of Skyline coach Peyton Pelluer is motivated by handful of disgruntled parents upset over playing time and strategy…
The very-public suspension, coming down just hours before kickoff last Friday, is the necessary prelude to a possible dismissal.
Accordingly, actions against Pelluer will be substantiated by pre-written investigative report.
The pre-readied report apparently strains credulity in its attempts to assign nefarious intent to a series of run-of-the-mill anecdotes, recorded over Pelluer’s 18 months in charge of Skyline football.
The group resignation of assistant coaches Monday may have complicated any existing plans to part ways with Pelluer. Currently the first place Spartans are without coaches, Senior Night looms Friday.
Pelluer has remained quiet but teammates and former coaches have torn into Skyline and Issaquah decision makers with unprecedented anger and derision.
Even if district offers to drop suspension, it is unknown whether Pelluer would feel comfortable returning, given the current circumstances.
Decision on fate of Pelluer, 2025 Skyline football, due at 1:00 pm.
SAMMAMMISH — Two thoughts ahead of this breaking news report.
First, Skyline Head Coach Peyton Pelluer wasn’t kidding when he said in 2024 that coaching his alma mater Skyline was “pretty surreal, and about to get a lot more surreal.”
Second, we’re starting to see why Jake Heaps says he is “embarassed” of his alma mater and “sick to (his) stomach” over the Friday removal of head coach Peyton Pelluer.
J425 can now confirm that “complaints regarding player participation” coming from “a very small but vocal minority of parents” did in fact fuel the Friday suspension of Skyline head coach Peyton Pelluer.
We’re also able to report that the parent-initiated campaign to remove Pelluer is substantiated by a 15+ page pre-written investigative report that attempts to draw nefarious conclusions
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