May 28—FRANKLIN — Middletown Christian Schools stayed in-house with its search for a new boys basketball coach, promoting assistant athletic director and varsity assistant Jarred Jermacans to lead the Eagles program following the departure of Ryan Fairchild after the 2025-26 season.

Jermacans spent the past year on Middletown Christian's varsity coaching staff while also serving full-time in the school's athletic department, giving him daily interaction with the Eagles' student-athletes and positioning him as a familiar presence within the program.

School officials said Jermacans' background in Christian education, player development and mentorship made him a natural fit to continue building the program's culture both on and off the court.

"We are excited for the passion, leadership, and experience he will bring to our program," Middletown Christian athletic director Christian Vanover said in a statement. "His background in Christian school basketball, both as a player and a coach, gives him a strong understanding of how to lead young men both on and off the court. I have no doubt he will guide our boys the right way while continuing to push our program toward success every step of the way."

Jermacans replaces Fairchild, who left Middletown Christian to become the head boys coach at Madison.

The transition offered continuity for the Eagles, who already had an established relationship with Jermacans through his role as varsity assistant and assistant athletic director.

"A lot of my coaching philosophy is relationship-based coaching," Jermacans said. "I firmly believe if you have a positive reinforcing relationship with the student-athletes, obviously within basketball but also caring for them in their faith journey and academically and just caring for them on a day-to-day basis, it makes a huge difference."

Jermacans said being inside the school building every day has helped him build trust with players beyond basketball.

"Being the assistant athletic director, I have a unique opportunity to know these students more," Jermacans said. "When you have that relationship, it's easier for them to be coachable. They can take critique a little bit better, and we can have tougher conversations together about things they need to improve on."

Originally from Berks County, Pennsylvania, Jermacans graduated from Berks Christian School, where he later began his coaching career. He played varsity basketball there before receiving an opportunity to continue his playing career at the University of Valley Forge.

After deciding to pursue coaching and mentorship opportunities, Jermacans returned to his alma mater and quickly climbed the coaching ladder. He served as an eighth-grade head coach during his freshman year of college, became the junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant as a sophomore, then took over as varsity head coach during his junior year — a season complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"It was a heck of a year to have as your first year as a varsity coach," Jermacans said. "But it was a great learning experience. I really loved learning how to build a program."

Jermacans later moved to Florida, where he coached at multiple levels while also focusing heavily on player development and individual training sessions. He eventually relocated to Ohio to pursue a master's degree in sport administration at the University of Cincinnati, where he worked as a graduate assistant in the school's club sports department.

Last season marked his first year coaching high school basketball in Ohio.

Jermacans said his basketball philosophy centers around developing players who can think and react rather than simply follow scripted actions.

"A big part of my philosophy is not wanting to build robots, but build basketball players," Jermacans said. "A lot of our offensive philosophy is conceptual basketball and teaching players how to read the game and understand what the defense is giving them."

Defensively, Jermacans wants the Eagles to establish an aggressive identity.

"We like to get after it," Jermacans said. "Diving on the floor for loose balls, pressuring teams when we can and making the other team feel us. Hopefully our defense creates most of our offense."

Jermacans said continuity will also extend to the coaching staff. Varsity assistant Eric Gwinn and junior varsity coach Alan Holtrey are both expected to return, while the Eagles continue searching for another assistant coach.

School officials said the program's emphasis moving forward will remain centered on faith, accountability, player development and preparing student-athletes spiritually, academically and athletically.

NEW YORK — A social media influencer who serves up advice on sports betting and romance pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in two sweeping basketball game-fixing schemes involving NBA stars, the NCAA and the Chinese Basketball Association.

Marves “Vezino Locks” Fairley — who was still selling $60 betting tips this past Tuesday on Game 5 of the NBA Western Conference finals — could face roughly eight to 10 years behind bars when he’s sentenced in February.

Fairley’s guilty plea in Brooklyn Federal Court covers two separate cases.

One, brought by Brooklyn prosecutors, alleges he, fellow influencer Shane Hennen and others conspired with former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier. The other case, brought by the feds in Pennsylvania in January, alleged he and Hennen colluded with dozens of NCAA players to make sure their teams didn’t cover the point spread, and recruited former Chicago Bulls player Antonio Blakeney to help them fix Chinese Basketball Association games.

In a detailed statement before Brooklyn Magistrate Judge Joseph Marutollo, the 40-year-old Mississippi resident admitted that he got inside information on NBA games, which he and others used to make winning bets.

“I agreed to pay a player to change their game performance to give me an advantage on bets I placed for myself and others,” Fairley said.

In the case of the NCAA bribery scheme, he said, “Myself and others won money due to the altered player performances.”

Fairley also admitted to placing bets on some players’ behalf.

He pleaded guilty to seven federal offenses, including sports bribery, wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, and remains free on $200,000 bond. He’s set to be sentenced Feb. 27. The case against Hennen is still pending.

In October, the two men were busted alongside 32 other suspects, including Rozier, Jones and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, in a pair of blockbuster indictments alleging game-fixing and a scheme to cheat high-roller card players in rigged poker games. Fairley was not named in the poker indictment.

In one example listed in the sports betting indictment, Rozier tipped off his longtime pal and co-defendant Deniro Laster, 30, that he’d be leaving a game he was playing in for the Charlotte Hornets on March 23, 2023, early because of a purported injury. Laster and accomplices Fairley and Hennen used that info to either place or steer more than $200,000 in bets, prosecutors allege.

Though he’s not allowed to gamble as a condition of his bond, Fairley got right back to selling betting advice on Instagram soon after his arrest, telling his followers in one video post from Dec. 27, “This is it. This is what we’ve been waiting on. Everything been added up, and guess what, I done added an Asian to the staff. I done added an Asian to — you know how smart they are. Let’s go. Tap in, it’s exclusive.”

Fairley also offered his insights on a variety of topics on “The Vezino Podcast,” which included episodes titled, “Marriage/ Pre-Nups, Credit Scores, & Talking about Situations You Ain’t Never Been In” and “You Ain’t Rich Enough Rn to be Chasing Women & Be Distracted. Lock in!”

Fairley and Hennen started their Chinese Basketball Association scheme in September 2022 by fixing games with Blakeney, who was then shooting hoops for the Jiangsu Dragons, according to federal prosecutors. Blakeney isn’t charged in the Pennsylvania indictment, but he’s named throughout and is described as “charged elsewhere.”

Blakeney, one of Jiangsu’s top scorers, agreed to under-perform in two games in March 2023, ensuring his conspirators made nearly $300,000 when his team didn’t make the point spread, the feds allege. That April, after the season ended, Fairley put a package containing almost $200,000 cash in a storage unit in Florida used by Blakeney, the feds said.

Hennen and Fairley moved on to the NCAA, as part of a team of “fixers” who offered college hoops players $10,000 to $30,000 bribes, the feds allege. That scheme involved more than 39 players who tried to fix more than 29 NCAA Division I men’s basketball games, according to prosecutors.

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