Creekers hire Harmon as football coach
Posted by Mike Fields on January 18, 2008
Mike Harmon, who has spent the last 7 years turning Lafayette’s football program into a consistent winner, is leaving the Generals to go home. “Home” is Tates Creek, where Harmon was an all-city lineman in the late 1980s and where he was an assistant coach before leaving to become the boss at Lafayette.
Harmon will succeed Mark Willoughby as the Commodores coach.
Harmon said leaving Lafayette was one of the most difficult decisions of his life, but that “family and home take precedence,” so he was returning to Tates Creek.
“It’s an unbelievable tradition here, and we’ve got to harness that,” said Harmon, who played under legendary coach Roy Walton and was an assistant under Walton’s successor, Joe Ruddell, the current athletic director.
Ruddell was he was “still in a cloud” about bringing Harmon back to Tates Creek. “It’s unbelievably exciting to have him here again,” Ruddell said.
Harmon won’t have any downtime from football. He’s also the new head coach of the Lexington Horsemen indoor team.
January 24, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Tough break for Lafayette. They are now searching for a football coach and both boys and girls soccer coaches, with the resignation of Steve Fugmann (boys soccer) last week and Mike Lippert (girls) earlier this winter.
January 24, 2008 at 7:00 pm
GOOD NEWS FOR CREEKERS!!!! I PLAYED FOR MIKE HARMON IN 2001 WHICH WAS HIS LAST YEAR AT CREEK. MY NAME IS ZACH CHAPPELL, MIKE TAUGHT US FOOTBALL BUT FIRST CAME GRADES AND HOW TO ACT AS YOUNG MEN. GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK HOME MIKE. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE THE UPCOMING TEAMS!!