THOMASVILLE — Mike Singletary will be known as Thomas County Central’s athletic coordinator for another year.

Instead of filling the Yellow Jackets’ vacant athletic director position, Thomas County School Superintendent Dr. Jean Quigg decided to keep Singletary in charge of Central’s athletic program for another year.

“We did that in July,” Quigg said. “We are not naming an athletic director at this time. (Central principal Joe) Sharp is going to fulfill those responsibilities as Mike Singletary continues as the athletic coordinator.”

Singletary assumed the position last year when football coach and athletic director Ed Pilcher resigned to take the coaching position at Bainbridge. Singletary is excited about continuing in his athletic coordinator role.

“I guess it’s a logical choice,” Singletary, who served as an athletic director at Colquitt County, said. “I’ve done it before and I’m kind of familiar with the Georgia High School Association’s expectations of us, but I’m excited about it.

“I’m excited about doing it and excited about the faith that Dr. Quigg and Mr. Sharp have given me.”

Despite Singletary’s experience in the athletic director position and his excitement in filling the role at Central, Quigg remains adamant that Central’s athletic director not be a coach, which ruled Singletary out as becoming the full-time athletic director — since he serves as a defensive coach for Central.

“Of course, Mike, is certainly very qualified to help in that role,” Quigg admitted. “Mike wanted to continue to coach football. We didn’t want to lose him in that position. Mr. Sharp will work with coach Singletary throughout this year. They’ll share, but Mike certainly will be doing all the scheduling and that kind of thing and just serving, basically, as an athletic coordinator.”

Still, Singletary said there isn’t much difference between his responsibilities as an athletic coordinator than that as an athletic director.

“The reason they label it coordinator and not director is some people had a problem with somebody coaching holding that,” he noted. “But, when Mr. Sharp gave me — I asked him for a list of my responsibilities, what he expects from that position — there wasn’t any difference.

“It has good and bad days with it. The good days are that you kind of get to lead the program in the direction that you’d like for it to go. But the bad part of it is all the problems kind of end up on your desk. It’s just a job like anything else — you have to handle it one day at a time and one situation at a time.”

When the school calendar concludes next spring, Quigg said they will review the situation and make a decision then on the future of Central’s athletic director position.

That is one decision Singletary hopes will have a simple solution.

“My expectations are that I’ll do it as long as they ask me to do it,” Singletary said. “I don’t think it’s a temporary thing.”