By: Jason Bishop

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

The Brunswick High Pirates have reportedly found a new Head Football Coach.

The Pirates have reportedly hired former Cook County Head Football Coach Byron Slack.

Slack led the Hornets to a 5-6 record last season and playoff appearance. Cook County went down in the first round of the 2A GHSA playoffs to North Murray 22-14 last season.

Slack went 4-7 with Cook in 2024, bowing out in the first round Burke County in the first round of the playoffs 27-21.

However, Cook made a deep playoff run and lost to Rockmart 34-24. The Hornets went 11-4 in the 2023 campaign.

In fairness to Slack, his football teams have been devasted by injuries the last two seasons.

Slack will be charged with taking over a Brunswick High Pirates program that made national news in the 2025 playoffs due to a sideline clearing brawl during the second round of the GHSA playoffs against the Gainesville Red Elephants.

He will also step into a program that has enjoyed a lot of success over the last decade under former coaches Sean Pender and Garrett Grady.

One of the things Slack will be tasked with as the new Pirates Head Coach is getting the Pirates out of the 2^nd round of the playoffs and potentially make some deeper playoff runs.

The Pirates have not advanced out of the second round in the GHSA playoffs since 1999 when the Pirates lost in the state title game to the Lowndes County Vikings.

The Pirates former coach, Garrett Grady, resigned before the Christmas break and took a job on staff with the Coffee County Trojans.

Slack was 28-21 over his four seasons with Cook High School.

Slack has spent time on coaching staffs at Colquitt, Lowndes and Camden. He also spent one season as the head coach at Hillgrove High School before coming to Cook. Slack spent 13 seasons as an assistant on the Camden County Wildcats staff.

The Glynn County School Board will officially vote on a hire on Thursday evening according to Glynn County Athletic Director, Steve Waters.