Wheeler High School has announced that Bryan Love is the new head football coach.
He comes from Woodland High School in Stockbridge, and was 3-7 in each of his two seasons there.
Before that, he was successful turning around Westlake High School in Atlanta, inheriting a team that was 0-10 and guiding the program to two region titles. Westlake is in the same region as Wheeler in Class 7A of the Georgia High School Association.
He also was head coach at Lamar County for one season, compiling a 6-5 record in 2016, before moving to Woodland.
Love, a former assistant coach at McEachern, is 36-30 as a head coach. He also was an assistant at Camden County in south Georgia, which won two state titles while he was there.
He succeeds Mike Collins, who left last month after nine seasons at Wheeler and is now the head coach at River Ridge High School in Cherokee County.
Love is the second new football coach named at an East Cobb school this year. Sean Thom was hired at Lassiter, following the resignation of Jep Irwin, also after nine years.
Collins and Irwin had been the dean of East Cobb football coaches.
The coaches at Walton, Sprayberry, Kell and Pope all completed their second seasons on the job in 2018.
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