Ron Crawford has resigned as head football coach at Cleveland High School after three seasons and will return to Brentwood High, where he coached for more than a decade.
“It all goes back to the three big priorities in my life — faith, family and football and the bottom line is we felt a lot of family reasons and things pulling us back home,” Crawford said. “We’ve got two little grandbabies and my sister just had her first baby, plus I have elderly parents and in-laws who are older and they all need us.”
Crawford was the head coach at Brentwood High for 10 years before taking over at Cleveland in 2012. He led Brentwood to the Class 5A state championship in 2002 and had an overall record of 94-32 there. Prior to that he was the defensive coordinator at Riverdale, helping that program win state titles in 1997, 2001 and finishing runner-up in 1995, 2000. In his three seasons with the Blue Raiders he compiled an 18-15 overall record, advancing to the second round of the Class 5A playoffs this year.