Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe's head coach Bo Campbell works with athletes during a passing camp at LaFayette High School on Tuesday, July 7, 2015. 
Gordon Lee head coach Greg Ellis directs his men during practice in this 2004 file photo.Ten coaches begin or resume their high school football head coaching careers tonight or next week in new surroundings.
South Pittsburg's Vic Grider, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe's Bo Campbell and Gordon Lee's Greg Ellis are returning to the head coaching ranks after having taken some time off or working as assistants.
Campbell was head coach at Central in 2005 and 2006 and worked at LFO as an assistant and then at Notre Dame as defensive coordinator until last spring. Grider was South Pittsburg's head coach for 16 seasons until stepping down at the end of the 2012 season, and Ellis coached Gordon Lee from 1999 to 2005.
Scott Cummings joins Cleveland after a successful run at Knoxville West, and former University of Miami and NFL player Ty Wise moved to Signal Mountain from Graceville, Fla. Wes Tankersley, who rebuilt the program at Gilmer, takes over at Ridgeland.
Josh Owensby at Bledsoe County, Casey Tate at Grundy County and Sequatchie County's Adam Caine are making their head coaching debuts.
Painting in the rain
Notre Dame coach Charles Fant was out in the rain Tuesday painting a practice area for his team. He wasn't complaining, though.
"I figure if the kids can practice and play in (the rain), then I can surely paint in it," he said.
Irish athletic director Matt Pobieglo likely would say he was smarter than his football coach, since he mowed the area before the rain resumed and Fant got to his painting.
"It had just started to sprinkle again when he finished up," Fant said.
The Irish use the practice spots judiciously, doing anything to stay off the game field with hopes that it will last through the season and, they hope, an extensive postseason.
Meigs missing QB
Clint Oliver, a potential starting quarterback, will not be available tonight when Meigs County travels to Sweetwater with hopes of breaking a seven-game losing streak against the Wildcats. With Oliver sidelined by appendicitis, junior Jesse Rayl likely will take most of the snaps. Rayl started last year at cornerback.
The Tigers may introduce Riley Wilburn tonight. The former McMinn County rugby player, one of the fastest players on the team, is likely to see time in both backfields and at wide receiver.
Sonoraville QB sidelined
Senior three-year starting quarterback Cody Long will miss possibly the first half of the season for Sonoraville after suffering a Grade 1 tear of an MCL in the team's scrimmage against Union County last week.
Long had more than 2,000 total yards and scored 22 touchdowns a year ago in leading the Phoenix to the Georgia Class AAA playoffs. Sophomore Patrick Moore is expected to start the team's opener at Model Aug. 28.
North Murray gets scare
Coach David Gann reports that quarterback Will Swantic will not miss playing time after suffering a high ankle sprain in the team's intrasquad scrimmage. The Southeast Whitfield senior transfer may not be 100 percent, but he's good to go against Rockmart next Friday.
"Will had a high ankle sprain, but he's back now," Gann said. "For a little bit they thought he may have broken it, but the doctors said it was just a sprain. He's going to be OK and will play Friday."
McMinn Central quarterback Jackson Guy (12) picks up yardage. Five area high schools scrimmaged at Bradley Central High School Saturday, August 1, 2015.Guy starts third year
McMinn Central quarterback Jackson Guy is one of very few players in the area who will be starting a third straight season at the position. He helped lead the Chargers to 10 wins last season.
"Jackson has done a good job for the last two years, and he has a firm grasp on that position," Chargers coach Josh Goodin said. "We're pretty settled in with Jackson and our other starters, so the only issue is depth. We don't have a whole lot of backup guys."
Rogers works for Tyner
Rick Rogers, an assistant at Central for years and the architect of the Pounders' championship-style boys' basketball program, is now one of the assistants for veteran Tyner football coach Wayne Turner. Rogers still teaches at Central and will continue to coach basketball there.
Speaking of coaches on the move, Troy Boeck, most recently at Signal Mountain, is now at Soddy-Daisy. He took his son, tight end/linebacker Ty Boeck, with him. And Bryan Bray, a former Hixson baseball coach and athletic director, has returned to the football field as one of Dan Duff's assistants. Bray, who also coached football at Notre Dame, originally went to Hixson for baseball and football.
A Baylor addition
Cole Johnson, who was penciled in to be Signal Mountain's fullback, has enrolled at Baylor, taking his younger brother with him. The son of former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga standout Brent Johnson, Cole is a solid 255-pounder who started for the Eagles last year at offensive guard. He'll have to sit out a year to meet TSSAA transfer rules.
It appears that Garrett Hensley, one of Johnson's teammates at Signal, has been lost for the year. He suffered an apparent season-ending knee injury at the jamboree last Saturday.