When Webb School of Knoxville hired George Quarles back in early December of 2025, the splash hire sent significant ripples throughout East Tennessee — if not the entire state.

Quarles won more than 93 percent of his games and logged 11 state championships in an 18-year coaching career stop at Maryville High School from 1999-2016 but was returning to the high school coaching landscape after nine seasons of coaching in college.

Many in the area wanted to know: who would serve on his staff at Webb to help rebuild the Spartans back into state prominence?

Quarles provided answers at the 2026 Knoxville Football Officials Association’s High School Football Media Day on Friday.

Don Mahoney, who was the head coach at Webb from 2023-25, opted to return to Webb and serve as Quarles’ offensive line coach. Mahoney coached offensive line in the college ranks for more than 15 years, including four at the University of Tennessee.

“That said so much about him as a person that he’d be willing to come back and be the O-line coach,” Quarles said of Mahoney. “I think it also said a lot about Webb, just what a great place it is that he would want to come back.”

Former Oak Ridge player Jamie Redmond will be the secondary coach at Webb. Redmond coached for 21 seasons as an assistant at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, as well as for four seasons at Brentwood Academy.

Redmond most recently served as director of program performance at Vanderbilt from August 2022 until April 2025.

Dakota Fitzsimmons was retained off the former Webb staff and will coach wide receivers.

Former Powell player Jesse Stephens will work with the defensive line.

Dakota Crews hopped over from the Maryville coaching staff and joined Quarles at Webb. Crews was a 2007 Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Lineman winner in Class 2A while playing at Lewis County.

Crews will be the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach.

“Really good hire there,” Quarles said. “Kids have responded great to him. He’s a hard worker.”

Roy Voliton, who has coached high school football in New York and Colorado, has joined the Webb staff.

“I’m feeling really good about our staff,” Quarles said. “I think one thing I’m having to learn is that the lay coaches, the community coaches, have to be a thing at Webb. Just don’t have a lot of teaching spots. The school is so good that teachers aren’t leaving.

“I like our staff. I like our team. The big thing for us is going to be depth. Can we maintain numbers? Can we stay healthy?”

As for the offensive coordinator spot, Quarles will occupy that.

Quarles made a name for himself while pulling the strings of the Maryville offense during his time at the helm. Quarles was an offensive coordinator at Furman from 2018-2021 before taking over as head coach at ETSU for the 2022-23 seasons. After his time at ETSU, Quarles coached tight ends at Austin-Peay.

“So we’re going to do a lot of the stuff we did at Maryville,” Quarles said of Webb’s offense, “and some of the stuff we picked up along the way at Furman or ETSU and Austin-Peay.”

Webb’s roster has doubled in size over the last few months.

Garrett King is slated to take over the starting quarterback duties. King is a 6-foot-2, 195-pound rising junior who transferred to Webb from Catholic back in early spring.

Quarles has always worked closely in molding and shaping his quarterbacks, many of whom — such as Brent Burnette and Patton Robinette — went on to earn all-state honors and spots on college football depth charts.

He has liked what he has seen so far in King.

“Garrett is extremely talented and a good-looking kid who just hasn’t gotten a lot of game reps,” Quarles said. “But he’s just as talented as a lot of the ones I’ve been around.

“He works hard. Strong. I’m excited about him. Nobody knows about him yet.”

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