By: Jason Bishop

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

The Camden County Wildcat football program has found a new Head Football Coach and it is the man who built the program.

Bob Sphire resigned as Head Coach earlier in the month.

Sphire was coming off of a 5-6 season with the Wildcats.

In the 2020 campaign Camden suffered blowout losses to Coffee, Warner Robins and Colquitt in three consecutive games.

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 former Camden Head Coach was 23-20 during his time at Camden, and 3-9 in the region.

Sphire went 0-8 against region foes and powerhouses Lowndes and Colquitt in his time as head coach.

And so, the page turns and enters the Camden new coach who is a familiar face, Jeff Herron.

Herron was the head coach at Camden from 2000-2012. During his tenure with the Wildcats he won 12 straight region titles and 3 state championships.

Jeff Herron comes back to the Georgia Coast after being on the Tennessee Tech staff this past year.

The legendary coach returns to Camden with a career record of 312-54.

Herron’s last head coaching job was at T.L. Hanna High School in South Carolina and in 2 years there he amassed a 25-2 record. A year before that he won his 5^th state championship with Grayson in Atlanta going 14-1.

Herron was the Head Coach at Oconee High School from 1997 to 1999 and won his first state title there. He went 33-6 at Oconee. When Herron took over the Oconee program the school had won a total of 8 games in 4 years.

During Herron’s first stay in Kingsland, he had a record 154-18. At one point the Wildcats won 58 straight regular season games under Herron, which is a Georgia record.

Herron had the Wildcats ranked inside the top 25 nationally six different seasons and the Camden program was named the program of the decade in the state of Georgia in the 2000’s.

The Wildcat program is looking to become a consistent state power once again and have returned to their roots to do so.