Pardue, Godfree among 11 new coaches in Class AAAAAA

Hardest to replace: Jason Dukes, Alpharetta

Best job: Walton

Toughest job: Osborne

Most interesting: Lovejoy forced 13-year head coach Al Hughes to resign despite a record of 47-6 the past four seasons and 104-48 overall. Lovejoy was 10-2 in 2013. "Lovejoy was good to me and I had a great career there," said Hughes, who declined an opportunity to remain as athletics director. "I had intended to be there for a long time, but this opportunity is here now, and the good Lord has a plan for me." For the moment, Hughes is retired.

Region 2

*Lovejoy promoted defensive coordinator Edgar Carson to replace Hughes. Carson came to Lovejoy in 2011, when the Wildcats were Class AAAA runner-up to Tucker. He had been an assistant at Griffin (2008-10) and Mundy's Mill (2006-07) and interned a season at alma mater Savannah State.

Region 3

*Campbell hired Hillgrove co-defensive coordinator Ryan Brady to replace Harris Rainbow, who was let go after three seasons despite a 4-6 finish in 2013, the school's best record since 2007. Brady has been an assistant, primarily on the defensive side, for 14 seasons since leaving the University of West Virginia, where he was a starting linebacker. His stops included Cass, Royal Palm Beach (Fla.) and his alma mater, Harborfields (N.Y.). Rainbow, who refused to resign, has left coaching and is director of human resources for Nolan Transportation Group in Roswell.

*East Coweta hired Steve Pardue, who won three state titles at LaGrange (2001, 2003, 2004), to replace Clint Wade, who was 38-29 in six seasons. Pardue left LaGrange in 2011 to become an assistant at Kentucky under longtime friend Joker Phillips. Pardue, who was out of coaching last season, was 161-45 at LaGrange. Wade, who spent 22 seasons at East Coweta, is now on the staff of Mike Earwood at Our Lady of Mercy.

*South Cobb promoted offensive line coach Sherrod Rainge after the original coaching hire, Geoff Pastrick, failed to get board of education approval after being on the job three weeks. Rainge had been a community coach in 2010 and 2011 and was offensive coordinator in 2012 under Ed Koester during a 7-3 season. Rainge, who played at Penn State in the late 1980s, will replace Michael Youngblood, who was 3-7 in one season. South Cobb had introduced former Chapel Hill head coach Pastrick as Youngblood's replacement but went in another direction in April.

Region 4

*Osborne promoted linebackers coach Byron McCall to succeed Xarvia Smith, who resigned. McCall was the last head coach at Avondale before it closed after the 2010 season. He previously had been an assistant at Lithia Springs, North Cobb and South Panola (Miss.). He is a former player and graduate assistant at Mississippi State under Jackie Sherrill. Osborne was 2-8 in each of Smith's three seasons and will play a non-region schedule in 2014. Smith has joined Allatoona's staff as linebackers coach.

Region 5

*Walton hired Byrnes (S.C.) defensive coordinator Mo Dixon to replace Rocky Hidalgo, who took the head coaching position at Glynn Academy. Dixon was North Gwinnett's defensive coordinator from 2007 to 2012, during which the Bulldogs averaged 11 wins. Dixon has been a head coach at North Broward Prep in Florida and Knott County Central and Hazard in his native Kentucky.

Region 6

*Alpharetta promoted offensive coordinator Jacob Nichols to replace Jason Dukes, who took the head coaching job at Smiths Station in Alabama. Nichols was offensive coordinator in 2012 and 2013 and offensive line coach in 2010 and 2011. He also has been Alpharetta's strength and conditioning coordinator. Nichols played on Parkview's 1997 state championship team. He got into coaching in 2004 as a community assistant at an Alabama middle school while getting a degree at UAB. Alpharetta was 34-21 in Dukes' five seasons and won region titles in 2011 and 2013.

*Chattahoochee promoted defensive coordinator Vince Strine to replace Michael Owens, who resigned for health reasons and remained on faculty. Strine has been an assistant at Chattahoochee since the 2008 season and was part of Chattahoochee's 2010 state championship team. Strine has been an assistant at Flowery Branch (2004-07) and West Hall (2001-03). Chattahoochee was 4-6 in 2013 in Owens' only season.

*Lambert promoted offensive coordinator Louis Daniel to replace Sid Lambert, who resigned to spend more time with family and remained a teacher at the school whose football program he started in 2009. Daniel had run Maxwell's offenses at Lambert (2009-13) and Sequoyah (2000-08) and was a player under Maxwell at Sequoyah.

*West Forsyth promoted offensive coordinator Adam Clack to replace Frank Hepler, who left to take an assistant coaching job in his native Florida. Clack was on Hepler's staff from the start and began running the offense in 2011. Hepler started the West Forsyth program in 2007 and reached the playoffs each of the past four seasons. Clack also has been an assistant coach at South Forsyth and Southeast Bulloch.

Region 8

*Parkview hired an alumnus, Loganville coach Eric Godfree, to replace Cecil Flowe, who retired from public schools after 21 seasons as the Panthers' head man. Godfree, who played on Parkview's 1992 team that was the first in school history to make the playoffs, was 53-50 in 10 seasons at Loganville. Godfree coached on the 2000, 2001 and 2002 Parkview state championship teams that were part of a state-record 46-game winning streak. Flowe is now defensive coordinator at King's Ridge Christian.

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