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).
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