By: Jason Bishop

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

The Camden County Wildcat football program will be seeking a new Head Football Coach in the coming weeks.

Bob Sphire resigned as Head Coach Thursday morning.

Sphire was coming off of a 5-6 season with the Wildcats. The 2020 season was one full of ups and downs. Camden knocked off defending state champ Marietta midway through the season and also beat both Raines and Oakleaf. Raines and Oakleaf were playoff teams in Florida.

However, blowout losses to Coffee, Warner Robins and Colquitt in three consecutive games were certainly a low for the season.

In the Warner Robins game, Camden was put on a running clock in the 4^th quarter for the first time in the program’s history.

Sphire took Camden to 3 playoff appearances during his 4-year tenure. Those 3 playoff appearances ended up all being losses in the first round to Walton, Marietta and Parkview, respectively.

The Camden Head Coach was 23-20 during his time at Camden, but was 3-9 in the region. Sphire’s only wins in the region were against Tift County. He was 3-1 against the Blue Devils

The Wildcats now former coach went 0-8 against region foes and powerhouses Lowndes and Colquitt in his time as head coach.

Camden seemed to play better at the end of the season, going toe to toe with Lowndes and maybe a personal foul call away from winning that game.

The Wildcats also played tough in the Parkview playoff game, erasing a huge 4^th quarter deficit to eventually fall in overtime.

Camden’s wins this season came against Glynn Academy, Raines, Oak Leaf, Marietta and Tift. The Wildcats fell to Richmond Hill, Coffee, Warner Robins, Colquitt, Lowndes and Parkview.

Sphire inherited a team that was coming off of a 1-9 season when he took the job in 2017.