Once I got a call last week I wanted to know if Earl Bates might become the new coach at Southern Guilford High School…..There were rumblings about Earl Bates being the new football coach at Southern Guilford….
*****Today/Thursday Earl Bates was named the new head football coach at Southern Guilford High School…*****
from research last week on Earl Bates:
Earl Bates is a graduate of Eastern Guilford High School and he was a very good football player for the EG Wildcats back in his day…Earl was the recent coach at Morehead High School in Eden and he led his team to a (10-4) record this past season and took his Panthers to the third round of the NCHSAA 3-A Playoffs…Morehead defeated Western Alamance 28-27 in OT in Round One, then topped Havelock 42-35 in Round Two, before falling to Rocky Mount in Round Three 35-31…All of Morehead’s games were on the road and this was the deepest football playoff run in school history for the Morehead Panthers…Morehead also defeated Northern Guilford 31-27(Regular Season)….It was (10-4) in 2015 for Coach Earl Bates and Morehead…Morehead had an outstanding QB this past Fall in senior Will Dabbs….
Bates had been head coach at Morehead for five seasons and the run went like this:
2015-(10-4)
2014-(5-7)
2013-(4-7)
2012-(1-10)
2011-(0-11)….(20-39) overall for Coach Bates at Morehead, but some super improvement in the program over the years since he took over…Morehead was (0-11) the year before he got the job…Bates goes from (0-11) in 2011, to (10-4) in 2015….
Congratulations Earl I know you will do a fantastic job!
So, what’s the word on Northern’s search?
No word yet but you can bet whomever they get he’ll still find a way to get in NWG’s heads and beat them again…lol
Aaron Brand, the coach at Charlotte Vance High School, was one of the top candidates to be the next Northern Guilford Nighthawks’ head football coach…
He was in early last week and the middle of last week, he was out of that job…
Search continues….