1. Two are first-time head coaches this season - Irwin County's Buddy Nobles and Cartersville's Joey King.
2. Two are graduates of Commerce High School - Calhoun's Hal Lamb and Commerce's Michael Brown.
3. Two are graduates of The Citadel - ELCA's Jonathan Gess and St. Pius' Paul Standard.
4. Two are graduates of Georgia College - Blessed Trinity's Tim McFarlin and Calvary Day's Mark Stroud.
5. Two are graduates of Georgia Southern - Benedictine's Danny Britt and Stockbridge's Kevin Whitley.
6. Two are graduates of Georgia Southwestern - Hawkinsville's David Daniell and Marion County's Mike Swaney.
7. Two are graduates of Jacksonville State - Colquitt County's Rush Propst and Washington County's Joel Ingram.
8. Two played for historically black colleges - Mays' Corey Jarvis (Albany State) and Brooks County's Maurice Freeman (Florida A&M).
9. Three are graduates of West Georgia - Calhoun's Hal Lamb, Northside's Kevin Kinsler and Archer's Andy Dyer.
10. Three played major college football - Buford's Jess Simpson (Auburn), Mount Paran Christian's Mitch Jordan (Georgia Tech) and Woodward Academy's John Hunt (Florida).
11. Five coach at their alma maters - Aquinas' James Leonard, St. Pius' Paul Standard, Brooks County's Maurice Freeman, Northside's Kevin Kinsler and Commerce's Michael Brown.
12. Ten attended high school out of state. They are Washington County's Joel Ingram (Arab, Ala.), Westminster's Gerry Romberg (Arlington, Va.), ELCA's Jonathan Gess (Clover, S.C.), Irwin County's Buddy Nobles (Jacksonville, Fla.), Woodward Academy's John Hunt (Orlando, Fla.), McEachern's Kyle Hockman (Cincinnati, Ohio), Allatoona's Gary Varner (Syracuse, N.Y.), GAC's Tim Hardy (Newton, N.C.), Etowah's Dave Svehla (Lincoln, Neb.) and Colquitt County's Rush Propst (Ohatchee, Ala.).
13. The average tenure for the coaches at their current schools is 6.3 seasons. The longest-tenured is Westminster's Gerry Romberg (23 seasons).
14. The youngest coach is 27 (Aquinas' James Leonard). The oldest is 56 (Colquitt County's Rush Propst).
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