Greenville High School has its new football coach.

Again.

On Friday morning, the Tigers officially elevated offensive coordinator Garrick Pimienta to head coach.

He is Greenville’s third head coach in 2023. Patrick Browning stepped down in February to accept a college coaching position at Alabama State. Former Demopolis coach Brian Seymore was approved as Browning’s successor earlier this month but resigned a week later.

“It’s a bit of an unusual situation, but I’ve been keeping the boys going all offseason,” Pimienta said. “In house, there won’t be much change. I think it will be a good situation for the boys to have someone here who loves them and cares about them. They understand and accept the standards I will hold them to and the coaches who come aboard with us will understand as well.”

Pimienta served as Browning’s offensive coordinator last fall at Greenville and the two also worked together for three previous years at Pike Road, helping the Patriots to their first state title in 2021.

“I’ve always dreamed of being a head coach,” he said. “I met with coaches and analysts and always tried to learn and lead. It’s a dream come true.”

Pimienta, a Tampa native, played linebacker at Huntingdon College. He also coached with Mike Turk and the Hawks for one year and at Prattville Christian for one year.

“I’ve got experience on both sides of the ball,” he said. “I played defense. I’ve coached offense at the college level and stayed on offense with coach Browning. I feel like I have a good knowledge base on both sides of the ball, and I feel like I have good connections to put together a good staff.”

Pimienta said he’s ready to get the program back to the Greenville standard after a 1-9 season in 2022.

“The boys have to feel the coaches around them are investing in them both on and off the field,” he said. “As a staff, we have to make sure the schemes and systems fit their talents.

“I feel like if we invest in them, they will feel that and invest in us back, and it will become a great product. We were extremely young last year. We are older now but still young. We still have some growing to do. I’m excited about our progress in the offseason, the gains in maturity and the opportunity to take this program in the right direction.”

Pimienta said he wasn’t sure what a possible spring training would look like since the school’s new on-campus stadium is being constructed on the former practice field.

“We will need to figure out the logistics and the scope of that before we make any plans for the spring,” he said.

The stadium is scheduled to open in the fall.

“It’s going to be a beautiful venue,” Pimienta said.

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