Football: Harford Tech Selects Watson (Again) as Next Head Coach

John Watson has been named the head football coach at , according to Harford County Public Schools Supervisor of Athletics Ken Zorbach.

Principal Charles Hagan emailed the school staff Monday to congratulate Watson, who teaches at Harford Tech and has already served one stint as Cobras head coach, Zorbach said.

The school's athletic director, David Deutsch, told Patch in February that no one within the school applied for the head coaching position. Deutsch was teaching Tuesday morning and not immediately available for comment.

Here is the email Hagan sent to his staff, unedited and in full:

"Our search for a football coach for the fall season is over.  When in doubt go back to your roots (well kinda!) but we are bringing back Johnny Watson to coach the Varity Football team.

We interviewed four quality in county candidates and determined the best direction to go would be to hire back the coach that gave us our first winning season, first Homecoming win and first in county win.  We are glad to be able to keep the position in house and we know that Johnny will give us 100% and we look forward to a successful season!

Congratulations Coach Watson and GO COBRA’s!"

applied to replace Mike Woods, after consecutive 1–9 seasons.

Updates to follow.