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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Georgia high school football coaching changes: Who went where?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There have been 101 Georgia high school football coaches hired since the 2007 season — 95 coaching changes and six hires at new schools or programs. Below, the 101 are broken down into where each school got its new coach. Most were promoted from within.
The 2007 whereabouts of two coaches — Greg Busby of Montgomery County and Jim Morrell of Pelham — have not been confirmed.
Kick off the debate: Let us know which school(s) made the best hires/promotions and which coaches you’re surprised to see somewhere new.
Schools that hired another Georgia head coach (25)
Bainbridge — Ed Pilcher (Thomas County Central)
Berrien — Ryan Branch (Brooks County)
Brooks County — Maurice Freeman (Brunswick)
Calvary Day — Mark Stroud (Toombs County)
Chamblee — Michael Collins (Pebblebrook)
Dade County — Bradley Warren (Gilmer)
Dodge County — Lee Campbell (Hawkinsville)
Douglass — Kenny Barrow (Mundy’s Mill)
Franklin County — Tommy Welch (LaFayette)
Hardaway — Jeff Battles (Pacelli)
Houston County — Greg Robinson (Dodge County)
Rabun County — Danny Durham (Franklin County)
Howard — Bobby Hughes (Macon County)
Jones County — Dwight Jones (McIntosh)
Kell — Derek Cook (South Cobb)
McEachern — Kyle Hockman (Campbell)
North Clayton — Rodney Hackney (Lithonia)
Northside-Columbus — Paul Cates (Columbus)
Northview — Jim Sowfety (Chamblee)
Riverdale — Nick Davis (Shiloh)
Rutland — George Collins (Houston County)
South Forsyth — Wendell Early (Berkmar)
Toombs County — Shane Williamson (Swainsboro)
Union County — Brian Allison (Winder-Barrow)
Union Grove — Steven Collins (Stockbridge)
Promoted an assistant (32)
Banneker — Ed Gosa
Central Gwinnett — Ed Stokes
Coffee — Ken Eldridge
Collins Hill — Billy Wells
Cross Keys — Anwar Heard
Dalton — Adam Winegarden
Decatur — Price Jones
Duluth — Gary McDonald
East Coweta — Clint Wade
Fellowship Christian — Terry Luck
Gilmer — Wesley Tankersley
Greater Atlanta Christian — Ken Robinson
Greenbrier — Brian Smith
Hancock Central — Zachary Harris
Harrison — David Hines
Hawkinsville — Cam Black
Jeff Davis — Jason McBride
Lakeside-Atlanta — Jeff Joiner
Mays — Dominic Callaway
Mundy’s Mill — Dorwyn Lyles
Ola — John Kovzel
Our Lady of Mercy — Chad Flatt
Pacelli — Bryan Eason
Roswell — Leo Barker
South Cobb — Ed Koester
Thomas County Central — Bill Shaver
Tri-Cities — Kenneth Miller
Upson-Lee — Tommy Watson
Ware County — John Stephens
Westlake — Greg Minnis
Westside-Augusta — Ivery Hugee
Winder-Barrow — Ben Corley
Hired another school’s assistant (29)
Allatoona — Gary Varner (Roswell)
Avondale — Michael Carson (MLK)
Berkmar — John Thompson (Valdosta)
Campbell — Shawn Campbell (Cass)
Cedar Shoals — Xarvia Smith (Camden County)
Chapel Hill — Chris Parker (Sequoyah)
Columbus — Brian Barnhill (Franklin County)
Eagle’s Landing — Joe Teknipp (Henry County)
Forest Park — Rod Perrymond (Jonesboro)
Kendrick — Jerry Dukes (Carver-Columbus)
Lamar County — Jason Strickland (Charlton County)
Lithonia — Earl White (Norcross)
Macon County — Matthew Lester (Northeast Macon)
McIntosh — Glenn Griffin (Starr’s Mill)
Montgomery County — Greg Busby
Morrow — Larry Mortonson (Pelham)
Mount Paran Christian — Mitch Jordan (Darlington)
North Cobb Christian — Terence Lott (Jackson County)
Pebblebrook — Randall Smith (Troup)
Pelham — Jim Morrell
Randolph-Clay — Kerry English (Albany)
Riverwood — Robert Ingram (Dutchtown)
Rockdale County — Mike Etheridge (Salem)
Spalding — Clint Ashmore (Jackson)
Stockbridge — Don Vandygriff (Dublin)
Swainsboro — Scott Roberts (Cairo)
Washington - Stanley Pritchett (Douglass)
Wayne County — Mark Daniel (Thomson)
Wheeler — Tom Flugum (Sprayberry)
Hired out-of-state head coach (8)
Brunswick — Victor Floyd (Chester, S.C.)
Colquitt County — Rush Propst (Hoover, Ala.)
Heritage-Ringgold — Tim James (East Ridge, Chattanooga, Tenn.)
North Atlanta — Brian Montgomery (Selma, Ala.)
Oconee County — Mitch Olson (Kennedy, La Palma, Calif.)
Pope — Matt Kemper (Lake Howell, Winter Park, Fla.)
Shiloh — Keith Wilkes (Carver, Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Walker — Ben Williamson (Christ School, Arden, N.C.)
Hired an out-of-state assistant (2)
LaFayette — Perry Swindall (Spain Park, Hoover, Ala.)
Lassiter — Chip Lindsey (Hoover, Ala.)
Hired a college or professional coach (5)
Central Carrollton — Mike Ledford (West Georgia)
Mitchell County — Dondrail Pinkins (not in coaching) and Derrick Silas (Pikeville College)
Southeast Whitfield — David Crane (Presbyterian)
Trion — David Humphreys (Georgia Force)
Kick off the debate: Let us know which school(s) made the best hires/promotions and which coaches you’re surprised to see somewhere new.
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