New Smith football coach a believer

By Tom Keller
Greensboro News and Record

GREENSBORO - The last time Smith High won a football game was Aug. 18, 2006. Since then, the Golden Eagles have lost 21 straight. Last season, they went 0-11, were outscored 442-29 and failed to score in six games.

The crowds that traveled to see them on the road often numbered no more than a dozen, athletics director Charlie Barnes said, and most of them "came to see the band more than the football team."

So when coach Jon Oakley and the school parted ways after the season, Barnes knew his replacement had to be just as much archaeologist as coach, someone who was willing to roll up his sleeves and dig this once-proud program out of its hole.

"I knew that someone was going to turn this program around," Rodney Brewington said. "And I knew that someone could be me."

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