Greg Chambers, the Fannin County High School Athletic Director and Interim football coach since the dismissal of Clark Drennan, had the interim tag removed, solidifying him as the new head coach of the Rebels. Fannin High School principal, Erik Cioffi, said,

“I’m very excited and proud to announce that Greg from interim head coach, to full time head coach.”

Cioffi, felt that Chambers was

“a perfect fit for the school system”,

and

“he brings a lot of experience, and he’s been a part of the success, that Fannin County High School has had in the last decade.”

Cioffi, citing a plethora of platitudes to present Chambers’ qualifications said, “I’m behind him 100%, because I know that Gregg knows the players. He knows the community. He’s got such a strong character and high morals. And that’s evident with him with his last year in the class room, when he was Teacher of the Year for Fannin County school system.”

Chambers, who had previously worked as the Rebels’ offensive coordinator before becoming the Athletic Director, will remain the Athletic Director; however, his exact duties, in accordance to his new responsibilities, have not been determined.

Chambers who has met with the players, and is scheduled to meet with the staff shortly talked about what he envisions for the Fannin football team.

“We’ll be a run orientated offense, not much different from what you’ve seen. Maybe you’ll see some different variations of the run.”

The new “full region” fall schedule, and the elimination of the “play-in”game, was discussed as well.

Principal Cioffi explained,

“We actually came from our regional principal and AD meeting today, and we voted to play a full region schedule in all sports, so that kind of eliminated the whole sub-region.”

Chambers added,

“We talked about this, it brings a lot of community to our region. The previous region was a great region, a lot of great coaches in there, but it almost felt like when to the region meetings, it was north versus south. There was a lot of division, and it felt like there was always tension. Not with this region none of has lined up. We’ve played some of those teams, and certainly some of them we’ve never played, but there seems to be a lot of camaraderie and unity amongst all the region coaches.”

Chambers also spoke about the difficulties of traveling to region road games.

“Unless they come up with some kind of geographical region for us, I don’t think it would matter what region we were in, we’d just to have to travel, no pun intended. We don’t have a super long trip, like an Oglethorpe, or East Jackson. Banks, and Buford are probably going to be our fartherest trips. We have Banks here, and Buford away (in the upcoming football season).”

Chambers coaching career began as a graduate assistant under Ray Goff at UGA. His foray into coaching started as a result self described “dumb luck.” His roommate at the time was a grad assistant, and he invited Chambers to join him. Chambers graduated UGA in 1994 and has been at Fannin County High School since the fall of 1995.