James 'retiring' at Washington, but wants to coach
Paul James announced Wednesday that he plans to retire as the activities director and football coach at Cedar Rapids Washington after the 2015-16 school year, but he plans to re-apply for the football job.
Due to state rules, James has to completely retire from Washington before he can re-apply for the football job in order to keep all of his retirement benefits.
"I'll have to sit out a period of time and re-apply," he said. "I don't know exactly how it will go, but there's a possibility.
"I'd like to continue, but IPERS rules force you to resign everything and then there's a rule you have to follow as far as coming back.
"You have to be real careful. Nothing can be pre-arranged. I would stand to lose my entire retirement benefits. I'll have to wait until it's posted and re-apply and see what happens."
James thinks there will be enough time to "retire" and then be re-hired as the football coach for the 2016 campaign. "Yeah, that possibility exists," he remarked.
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