Five years was enough for Lake Orion boys basketball coach Tom Risi, who has resigned from his job on the bench effective this week. Risi came to Lake Orion from Pontiac Notre Dame Prep and coached the Dragons' freshmen squad before accepting the mantle with the LO varsity in 2012 upon Mike Shafkalis and the program parting ways. His days pacing the sidelines for Risi at The Lake had their ups and downs. This past winter, the Big Green cage crew finished 4-17. In his first season as prince of the pine in the Dragons' Den though, he led Lake Orion on a memorable state-tourney jaunt that ended in the Class A Elite 8, a place the program hadn't been since the Prohibition era. The encore was pretty neat, too - in 2013, Risi's hoop troop raised an OAA league-championship banner. Risi's clubs always competed with passion, discipline and tenacity, win or lose. They always represented DragonsNation with pride and a positive attitude. Those things are a tribute to the man in charge. Burney wishes Coach TR the best in all his future endeavors!!