The Savannah news media, including the Savannah Morning News, is reporting that Savannah Country Day football coach John Mohring has stepped down as the Hornets head coach to take the job at Wayne County High School.
Wayne County administrators have yet to confirm the reporting, and the Wayne County Board of Education has not voted on his hiring. The school board will next meet on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the tech center.
Mohring, a former Division I-AA All-American and two-time team MVP during his playing days as a captain of the Georgia Southern football team, coached at SCD for three seasons — compiling a 16-16 record. He led the Hornets to the second round of the state playoffs in his first season and had another playoff squad this year as the No. 3 seed Hornets lost on the road to Upson-Lee 46-45.
Mohring replaces Jaybo Shaw after he left to take the job at Greenville High in South Carolina. Shaw went 17-7 in the last two years at Wayne County, including a run to Class 4A state quarterfinals last season.
"The last 48 hours have been a whirlwind," Mohring, 39, said in a phone interview Thursday afternoon with the Savannah Morning News. "Wayne County has a great football program, and it's a one-school town that gets tremendous support from the community. It's a place that eats, breathes and sleeps football. I always wanted a chance to coach in a place where all the kids from the town come to that school to play, and when the opportunity presented itself, I jumped all over it."