Alligood excited about role as athletic director

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  • Chad Alligood, who will officially begin as the Greyhounds athletic director next month, surveys the action during Monday’s basketball tournament. BRAD HARRISON/Staff
    Chad Alligood, who will officially begin as the Greyhounds athletic director next month, surveys the action during Monday’s basketball tournament. BRAD HARRISON/Staff

    At some point in the future, Chad Alligood envisioned swapping being a football coach for the role of being a full-time athletic director.

    That time, not to mention the opportunity, arrived last Tuesday for Alligood, who was announced by Jones County High School as its new athletic director. It happened one day after he resigned as head football coach at Northside, which is part of a school system …