By Aaliyah Dillard
Former Eastern Guilford head football coach Doug Robertson recently accepted the position of head football coach at Page High School. Robertson guided the Wildcats to a 15-1 record and a berth in the NCHSAA Class 3-AA championship game in 2016. A year later, Robertson led Eastern Guilford to the 3-AA East regional final. He spent the last two years at Thomasville. A native of Reidsville, Robertson graduated from Reidsville High, where he was a two-time all-conference lineman. He went on to attend Guilford College, where he earned second-team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honors in 1996 and first-team All-ODAC in 1997. He earned a master's degree at Delta State in Cleveland, Miss., and served as a graduate assistant with a football program that won the NCAA Division II championship in 2000. Robertson spent one year at Person County in 2012 before coaching Eastern Guilford from 2013 to 2017. He is a N.C. Football Coaches Association board member and will be the West head coach for the 2020 N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star game. “He’s going to turn Page around they could win the state championship,” said an EGHS football player who played for coach Robertson, while he was coach of the Wildcats. According to an article on Dec. 31 in Greensboro News & Record,
Page can’t pay Robertson as much as Thomasville did, but he said the decision he and his wife, Erin, made for their family was not about money. “It’s not a secret that in public education you’re not going to get rich,” Robertson said. “You don’t do it for the money, but you do have to take care of your family. Talking to my wife and having those conversations, we just felt like for our family, with our son a rising ninth-grader next year, it’s a good time for this and the money was not going to be a part of that conversation.”