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January 26, 2007

Sauls leaves, Giddens in the wings

Wayne Grandy

MOULTRIE — Friday was the last day at Colquitt County High for Packers co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Jim Sauls.

And head coach Tim Cokely did not take long to find a familiar name to present to the Colquitt County Board of Education to replace Sauls.

Cokely said that he will recommend former Packers offensive line coach and current assistant principal Kevin Giddens to take over the offensive line.

Cokely and Robert Craft will handle the roles of offensive coordinator. Craft was the co-offensive coordinator with Sauls last season.

Cokely said the board also will be asked to approve former Coosa head football coach Scott Chandler to replace Bill Ragans as defensive coordinator. Chandler was the head coach of the Class AA school in Rome from 2002-2004. He was the coach of the Rome Renegades of the American Indoor Football League the last two years.

The board is expected to vote on the two recommendations at its Feb. 26 meeting, Cokely said.

Sauls helped develop the Colquitt County passing game, which emerged as the best in Region 1-AAAAA in 2006, his only season with the team. He leaves to join Ragans at Leon High in Tallahassee.

Sauls is the fifth Colquitt County assistant, and fourth hired by Cokely, to leave in the last two seasons, joining Barney Myers, Matt Greene, Darius Dawson and Ragans.

Myers, Greene and Ragans were hired by Cokely when he took over the Colquitt County football program in 2005.

Myers was his first offensive coordinator and line coach and was replaced last season by Sauls.

The hiring of Giddens would be a popular one and would give the staff another connection to the 1994 state championship season.

Giddens was in his first season as the Packers offensive line coach that year when the Packers went 15-0 to win the team’s only state football championship.

Current secondary coach Dextra Polite was a defensive back on that team.

Giddens remained the Packers offensive line coach under Jim Hughes through the 1997 season and then left to become the head coach at Coffee High.

After three seasons as the Trojans head coach, he returned to Moultrie and has been an assistant principal since then.

“I’m excited,” Giddens said Friday. “I don’t want to be a head coach again. I don’t want to be a coordinator. They are not as fulfilling as being a position coach. I’ve been away for six years. I’m ready to go back to work.”

The Cochran native played at Georgia Southern and had coached at Long County and Coffee before coming to Moultrie in 1994.

Returning to the sidelines could give Giddens the opportunity to coach his son Bryce, a promising seventh-grade lineman.

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