H.S. FOOTBALL: Woods resigns as coach at Peabody

Ricky Woods has been the head football coach at Trenton Peabody for the past two seasons.

The Golden Tide went 22-5 in those seasons in addition to winning the 2014 Class 2A state championship.

That tenure came to an end Thursday when Woods informed the Tide's returning players he's not coming back to coach the team next year.

Woods confirmed he's leaving to become the head coach at Starkville (Miss.) High.

Most of Woods' coaching career has been in Mississippi, where he won seven state championships – two with Ackerman and five with nationally ranked South Panola.

He coached a high school team in south Georgia for a year before coaching a junior college team in Mississippi for two seasons. It was after that when he made the move north to Peabody.

Woods grew up in Ackerman, Miss., and he is a graduate of Mississippi State University.

The Golden Tide's next coach will be the school's fourth since 2011. It was after the 2011 season when Kent Scott resigned, who's now an assistant coach at Crockett County. Joe Gaddis was his replacement and led the Tide to their first district championship in 20 years in his one season as head coach before he left for Oak Ridge.

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