Jordan hires Anthony Barbour as football coach | Raleigh News & Observer

Jordan High hopes Anthony Barbour’s history of helping build football programs will continue with the Falcons. The school announced Barbour as its next football coach Friday.

Barbour has been a head coach three other times – at Southern Durham, as the first coach at Middle Creek and at Smithfield-Selma. He has been an assistant at Clayton since 2010.

His career record is 65-61, and at each stop he has left the program better off than when he took over.

His final two years at Southern Durham were 11-3 and 12-2, which at the time was the best two-year run in that school’s history. The Spartans’ program, now in its second state titles within three years, has not looked back.

His 8-4 mark at Smithfield-Selma in 2008 still stands as the school’s best year since 1997.

He took Middle Creek to the playoffs in each of its first three seasons, going 8-5 in his final campaign. Like Southern Durham, Middle Creek has taken off in the years following.

Barbour was a sensation in high school, leading Garner to the 1987 NCHSAA 4A title and setting a national record for touchdowns in a season. He went on to play at N.C. State, where he is the program’s fifth all-time leading rusher.

He coached in the 2008 N.C. Coaches Association East West All-Star Game and the 2009 North Carolina-South Carolina Shrine Bowl.

With the Jordan vacancy filled, Southeast Raleigh and Athens Drive are the Triangle positions still open.