George Quarles
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| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | East Tennessee State |
| Conference | SoCon |
| Record | 0–0 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | March 24, 1967 Jefferson City, Tennessee |
| Playing career | |
| 1985–1988 | Furman |
| Position(s) | Wide Receiver |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1989–1990 | Furman (GA) |
| 1991 | Cedar Shoals High School (assistant) |
| 1992-1994 | Eastside High School (assistant) |
| 1995–1998 | Maryville High School (assistant) |
| 1999–2016 | Maryville High School |
| 2017–2021 | Furman (AHC/OC/QBs) |
| 2022–present | East Tennessee State |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 250–11 (high school) 0-0 (college) |
| Tournaments | 0-0 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Awards | |
| 7x Tennessee State Coach of the Year
Tennessee Titans Coach of the Year (2005) PrepXtra Coach of the Year (2005, 2013) | |
George Quarles (born March 24, 1967) is an American football coach who is the head coach at East Tennessee State University (ETSU)
Playing career
A native of Jefferson City, Tennessee, Quarles played high school football for Maryville High School. He continued his playing career at Furman University where he played Wide receiver. In 1985, his freshman year at Furman, the Paladins went 12–2, won the Southern Conference title, but lost in the national championship game to Georgia Southern. He earned two lettermen during his playing career at Furman. During his senior season in 1988, Quarles led Furman with 18 receptions for 295 yards helping the Paladins go 13–2, win the Southern Conference championship, and claim the NCAA FCS (I-AA) national title. En route to the final, Quarles scored a touchdown on a 42-yard reception to help Furman beat Marshall 13–9 in the semifinals.
Coaching career
High school
After beginning his full-time coaching career at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, Georgia in 1991. He was an assistant coach at Greenville's Eastside High School from 1992–1994. Prior to becoming Maryville's head coach in 1999, he served as an assistant on the high school's staff for four seasons (1995–1998), handling offensive coordinator duties and coaching the program’s quarterbacks and defensive backs.
Quarles spent 22 years at Maryville High School, including the final 18 as head coach, during which time he recorded a stupendous coaching record of 250–16 (.939), making him one of the most successful prep coaches in the United States. The fastest coach in U.S. high school football history to register 200 wins, he guided Maryville to 11 state championships, including the last four in TSSAA Class 6A, and 15 state title game appearances, and won at least 10 games every season there.
During his remarkable run at Maryville, Quarles coached the Rebels to a nation’s-best 74 consecutive wins during one stretch that included four consecutive state championships. After taking over the Maryville program in 1999, he went 10-7 in his first 17 games, which he followed with a mark of 240–9 (.964). He was the winningest high school coach in America over the 10-year period (2007-16).
A seven-time state coach of the year selection, he was named Tennessee Titans Coach of the Year in 2005 and PrepXtra Coach of the Year in 2005 and ‘13.
In 2010, he coached the East Team in the prestigious Army All-American Bowl, an elite all-star game for the top senior football players in the country, after serving as offensive coordinator in the event in 2008.
He was inducted into both the Tennessee Football Coaches Hall of Fame and Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2018.
Furman
Quarles served as a graduate assistant at Furman for the 1989 and ‘90 seasons both Southern Conference Championship campaigns for the Paladins. In that role he worked with the defensive backs and coordinated the scout team offense.
In December 2016, Quarles returned to Furman as an assistant coach. In his first campaign under head coach Clay Hendrix he coached the squad’s tight ends, including All-SoCon and NCAA Post-Graduate scholar performer Andy Schumpert, who caught 32 passes for 652 yards and nine touchdowns in the Paladins’ 8-5 campaign that netted a FCS playoff appearance. In 2018 he took over as quarterbacks coach and oversaw the work of Harris Roberts, who battled back from a preseason injury and limited play in the early going to engineer Furman to a 5-1 stretch run, highlighted by a 34-14 pasting of Wofford. Harris threw five touchdowns in the Paladins’ 35-30, SoCon title clinching victory over Mercer and finished the campaign atop the SoCon in passing efficiency with a school record 182.6 rating. In 2019, Quarles’ offensive unit averaged a league leading 33.5 points per game, which helped key Furman to an 8-5 campaign, FCS Playoff appearance, and AFCA No. 19 final national ranking. The Paladins placed seven players on the league all-conference team, including a SoCon best four selections to the all-freshman squad. He
East Tennessee State
On December 23, 2021 Quarles was named the new head coach at East Tennessee State replacing the retiring Randy Sanders.[1][2]
Head coaching record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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| East Tennessee State (Southern Conference) (2022–present) | |||||||||
| 2022 | East Tennessee State | - | |||||||
| East Tennessee State: | - | - | |||||||
| Total: | - | ||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth | |||||||||
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References
- ↑ Thomas, Chris (December 22, 2021). "Former Maryville coach George Quarles to take over ETSU football program". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved February 4, 2022. Unknown parameter
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External links
- George Quarles on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Furman profile
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