
Alpharetta High School has announced that Brian Landis will take over as the school’s next head football coach after the departure of Jason Kervin in the offseason.
Landis brings an extensive resume with him to Alpharetta as he has been involved in various roles on many different levels of the sport.
We are excited to a announce and welcome new head football coach Brian Landis pic.twitter.com/4u9gCSYv7h
— Alpharetta Raiders (@RaiderSport) January 21, 2025
After playing his college football at Georgetown College where he helped lead the Tigers to an NAIA National Championship, winning Defensive Player of the Year in the title game, Landis won a second title a year later as a graduate assistant with the program. Landis tried his hand in arena football before going back to Georgetown College to begin his coaching career as an assistant linebackers coach as well as a special teams coordinator in 2004.
He became the defensive backs coach with the school in 2006 and held onto the position until 2014. During that time, he also served as the team’s recruiting coordinator beginning in 2010.
After his decade-long stint with Georgetown College, Landis was a part of the staff at Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky before taking up the reins of his own program.
Three years later in 2017, Landis took over as the head coach for Frederick Douglass High School in Lexington, KY where he accumulated a 35-5 record in his three seasons with the program. In his final season in 2019, Landis’ team recorded a 14-1 record including an appearance in the Class 5A state championship.
In 2020, Landis accepted a role on Georgia State football’s defensive staff as he helped the Panthers rank in the top-10 in the FBS in multiple categories such as sacks and turnovers forced. In his three seasons, Landis served as the inside linebackers coach and helped the Panthers to two bowl victories in his first two seasons with the school.
Before the 2024 season, Landis was named the defensive coordinator at the University of West Georgia where the Wolves finished 4-7 on the season in the programs first full season of FBS football.
Landis now takes over an Alpharetta football program that failed to make the postseason a year ago, with a 1-9 overall record. Before 2024, the Raiders had made eight postseasons in a row and were eliminated in the first round in six out of the last eight seasons.