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Cheatham taps Anderso for OC job By Robb.ie Robertson rllt· Newton Recore/ Anderson

defend. "When I was the head coach at Neshoba, he was the head guy at Philadelphia," Cheatham said. "Offensively, I like what they did. They did a good job of putting guys in motion and putting a lot of pressure on the defense. At the same time, they would line up and play smash-mouth football. See ECCC, Page 2B

at Philadelphia , where he later became the head coach. Anderson played collegiali– ty at Mississippi State. "We worked

him as the offensive line coach and he did a good job. Brian is just a good football coach. He played at State and has excellent knowledge of the game. He's a good person and you want to sur– round yourself with good peo- ple.·• ~ Not only did Cheatham coach Anderson, he has coached against him as well and knows how hard his offenses can be to

It didn't take new East Central football coach Steve Cheatham long to flnd an offensive coordi– nator. He also didn't have to look very far. Keeping true to his promise to hire from the high school ranks, Cheatham tapped Grenada coach Brian Anderson to be his offen– sive coordinator. Cheatham hired

Cheatham together for two years at Philadel– phia," Cheatham said. "I hired

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