Dorwyn Lyles has stepped down as head coach of Drew in Clayton County. Lyles' teams were 26-29 in five seasons. The Titans reached the Class AAAAA quarterfinals in 2015. Lyles met with his players on Thursday to tell them the news.
Bacon County coach Kyle Langford has resigned. His teams were 10-19 in three seasons, 2-8 this year. Langford had been head coach previously at Towns County.
Rutland coach Mark Daniel retired after three seasons at the Macon school, 16 as a Georgia head coach. The Hurricanes were 0-10 in 2018. "It can't get any worse right now than where it's at," Daniel candidly told 41 NBC News in Macon. "So, they'll find another staff." Daniel was the coach of Screven County's 2002 state-championship team.
Here are the jobs that are reported to have come open, with the former coach in parentheses:
Bacon County (Kyle Langford)
Buford (John Ford)
Chamblee (Curtis Mattair)
Cook (Bobby Jones)
Drew (Dorwyn Lyles)
East Jackson (Scott Wilkins)
Elbert County (Sid Fritts)
Fayette County (Mike Davis)
*George Walton (Don Williams)
Gilmer (Casey Wingard)
Hughes (Willie Cannon)
Jackson County (Brandon Worley)
Lassiter (Jep Irwin)
Lithia Springs (Kevin Hill)
New Manchester (Myron Terry)
Newton (Terrance Banks)
Pacelli (Mark LeGree)
Rutland (Mark Daniel)
South Effingham (Donnie Revell)
Spencer (Justin Newman)
Stone Mountain (James Collier)
Westside-Augusta (Scott Tate)
*Shane Davis is the new head coach. Other positions have not been filled.
Shaw's first head coach has died
James "Bubba" Ball, the head coach who started Shaw's football program in 1978, died this week at age 96. Ball was head coach at Baker from 1959 to 1965 and at Shaw from 1978 to 1986. A member of the Chattahoochee Valley Sports Hall of Fame, Ball also was a prominent boys basketball coach. At Baker, he won Class AA championships in 1954 and 1956 at the Atlanta City Auditorium.
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