Sports
Report: Rome football to hire Tift County's Reid
By Todd Holcomb
Feb 10, 2015Tift County football coach John Reid is set to be approved on Tuesday evening as head coach at Rome, The Rome News-Tribune has reported.
Reid was 14-17 in three seasons at Tift County, but the Blue Devils were 7-4 in 2014, reaching the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Tift beat out perennial playoff teams Lowndes and Camden County out of strong Region 1-AAAAAA.
Reid's best work came at East Paulding, which had not made the playoffs in its 15 years of existence until Reid was hired in 2006. East Paulding was 60-15 under Reid, averaging 10 victories.
Reid would replace Franco Perkins, a Rome native who was 29-23 in five seasons.
