Carrollton football coach Rayvan Teague, who led his team to the Class AAAA championship game in 2013, has retired from public schools and says he doesn't want to coach again, The Times-Georgian of Carrollton reported.
Teague was 127-25 in 12 seasons in Carrollton and has a career record of 220-69-1. He won a state championship at Swainsboro in 2000. Teague won region titles at Carrollton in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010 and 2011 and at Swainsboro in 1999 and 2000. His 2013 Carrollton team lost to Griffin in the state final.
It is not unusual for coaches to retire after 30 years in the public schools, which makes them eligible for retirement benefits, but many then get jobs at private schools. That was the case for former Camden County coach Jeff Herron, who retired last year and became head coach of private Prince Avenue Christian.
But Teague told the newspaper that he was done coaching.
‘’It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, and so my intentions are to retire at the end of this year and look into a possible second career,’’ Teague told the Times-Georgian. ‘’I don’t want to coach after here. I just think that after Carrollton, coaching would not be the same. I’ve been involved with football now for 40 consecutive years, dating back to my playing days and I’ve always been told that you’ll know when it’s time. Fortunately, with the teacher retirement system, it’s enabled me to be able to say for my family and financially, it’s time and I can do this.’’
