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Brad Taylor is returning as the Bearden football coach.
Bearden announced it has hired Taylor, who led the school to the TSSAA football Class 5A state semifinals in 2007, to fill the void left when the school fired former coach Josh Jones in February.
“Coach Taylor does a tremendous job in leading and developing young men of character as a football coach,” the school wrote in a release. “He has experience at the collegiate level, both as a player and graduate assistant coach at Tennessee Tech University (class of 1999). He is a proven winner who places an emphasis on player development both on and off the football field.”
Jones’ firing came weeks after it was discovered that the Bearden High School Football Booster Club improperly paid two coaches at least $60,000 over two years, according to an investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury. No Bearden coaches were named in the investigation.
Taylor, a 1994 Bearden graduate, coached at Bearden from 2007-13. He finished with a 54-28 record and led the Bulldogs to six playoff appearances during his first stint at the school. His 2007 team went 12-2 and reached the Class 5A state semifinals, earning Taylor the PrepXtra Coach of the Year award.
Taylor resigned from Bearden and stepped away from head coaching in 2013. He resurfaced as the Karns football coach from 2016-23, stabilizing the struggling program as its longest tenured coach since at least 1957. Taylor resigned as the coach in 2023 but remained at Karns for the past two years as a teacher and assistant track coach.
In 2021, Taylor led Karns to its first playoff victory. He went 26-46 overall,…
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Publish date : 2025-03-28 16:05:00
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