GHSF Daily asked Georgia head coaches to answer these four questions. We'll report from a different head coach each day.
Roger Holmes, Dublin
1. Who is/was the most influential person in your coaching career? "Herschel Moore. I worked as an assistant for him for six years. He was a tremendous innovator in the Wing-T offense."
2. Who is the best Georgia player you ever faced? "J.K. Sabb from Laney. We played his team in the Georgia Dome in 2002. He had played mostly one way the entire season, and in the semifinal game, he went both ways at linebacker and tailback. He simply was a one-man wrecking crew on both sides of the ball. He eventually started having cramping issues in the fourth quarter and overtime, and we were able to get out with a win."
3. What is the best team you ever faced as a coach? "The 2008 Buford team we faced in the semifinals in the Georgia Dome. They blended size and speed on the offensive side of the ball, with Cody Getz leading the charge. Their O-line averaged about 265 pounds across the front. Their defensive side of the ball had eight players that signed to play at the next level, most of them at the D-I level. Combined with the great coaching of Jess Simpson and his staff, they would be the best."
4. If you were Gary Phillips, the new head of the GHSA, what would be the first rule that you would try to change? "I think the problem of disparity lies with schools with open zones in highly populated areas. I think schools should be classified as selective enrollment or non-selective enrollment, and if you use certain criteria to allow students to attend your school, you should take the enrollment of the students in grades 9-12 in your county and divide the total student population by number of schools in the county, and that is your GHSA enrollment number. Any student that is enrolled that is out of zone should be multiplied by two for all schools."
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