Westlake football hires Florida coach Reid
Westlake will hire Kareem Reid of Coconut Creek High in Florida as head football coach to replace Bryan Love.
Reid’s Coconut Creek teams were 16-14 and did not have a losing season in three years at a school that had gone 1-19 over the previous two campaigns.
"A lot of it was family-based," Reid told the Sun-Sentinel newspaper of Fort Lauderdale. "I have a young son in the Atlanta area, and I wanted to be a strong presence in his life. To leave here, it would have to be a special place.''
Westlake was 10-3 and reached the Class AAAAAA quarterfinals in 2015 under Bryan Love, who accepted the head coaching job at Lamar County. Westlake was 0-10 in 2012 but went 24-11 in Love’s three seasons.
Reid, who played at Kentucky at Central Florida as a defensive lineman, produced four major Division I prospects in 2015. They were Trayvon Mullen (Clemson), Malek Young (Miami), Binjimen Victor (Ohio State) and Alexy-Jean Baptiste (Arkansas).
