By Michael A. Lough

The Sports Report

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          Pepperell offensive coordinator Bobby Rhoades has helped the Dragons to six straight playoff trips, and will try to bring some of that momentum to Milledgeville as the new head coach at GMC.

          The school made the announcement Tuesday.

          The new coach comes from a football family.

          His father Rick was a head coach at Troy State, when it was a Division II program in the 1980s, Southern Illinois, Nicholls State, and Delta State, going 78-48-1 with a Division II national championship at Troy State in 1987.

          He went on to coach in Austria, Sweden, and France.

          Rhoades has been a head coach or coordinator for 14 years on the high school level, having also coached at Pelham High and serving as head coach at Grissom High in Huntsville, Ala. and Duncan Smith DAR in Grant, Ala.

          Rhoades has also been on college staffs at Delta State, Illinois State, Central Arkansas, and Tusculum.

          Rhoades, who has coached boys and girls track, will also be in charge of the high school’s weight training program.

          He graduated from high school in Kentucky and from Hanover College in Indiana, also attending Montevallo in Alabama.

          The father of three has a son playing football at Sacred Heart in Connecticut and a son who has signed with Delta State.