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Busy time at Clarke County High these days
"I grew up in Waynesboro and I graduated from Wayne County High School in 1995," Davis said. "So I know all about what it is like in a town like this and I am glad to be here." Davis is coming from Memphis but he did not coach in the town nestled on the Mississippi River in Tennessee. "I took a year off because I had gotten burned out while coaching at Baker High School in Baton Rogue," he said. "I coached basketball, baseball and football plus with the teaching I needed a small break. "But now I am refreshed and ready to continue taking this program in the direction that it has been going," he added. Davis played college ball at Southern University in Baton Rogue and following a 4-year career he stayed on as a graduate assistant. In 2001 he started coaching at Istrouma High School in the same area and stayed there for two seasons, before moving to Baker. Former coach, Micoe Cotten, who was an assistant coach for Davis in high school, told him about the job. "It is real similar to Waynesboro and the atmosphere around here is just pure Southern; there is a real open-door feel and I loved that from the first day," Davis said. "I have had a chance to meet some of the players and I like the attitudes they have." Last year's team lost in the regionals but started four sophomores and a junior, something else that appealed to Davis. "There is a lot of talent coming back," he said. "And we are gonna work hard, get in great shape because I feel like the defense you play dictates the offense." Basketball practice starts in mid-October for the Bulldogs and the rest of the AHSAA teams statewide.
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