Roselle’s Ibrahim Halsey prepping to take over as new South Brunswick football coach

The coaching carousel continues in the Big Central Conference.

South Brunswick Athletic Director CJ Hendricks has recommended Ibrahim Halsey as the Vikings new head football coach, with his approval scheduled for a vote by the Board of Education at its June 13th meeting.

Halsey spent the last three years as head coach at Roselle, leading the Rams to a 17-16 record in that span, with an 8-4 mark in 2022 being the high point. He takes over for Joe Goerge, who took the Woodbridge job after Joe LaSala stepped down as head coach of the Barrons in late March.

Halsey was an outstanding football player at Elizabeth High School, where he was the Gatorade Player of the Year in New Jersey in 2001, then went on to play collegiately at Illinois. He later got his Master’s Degree in Special Education and Teaching at Grand Canyon University, and returned to the Elizabeth program in 2012 as an assistant coach, where he was until he took the Roselle job right after COVID, for the 2021 season.

With the latest round of coaching changes, Halsey takes over a bit late in the game, but he has already made progress assembling a staff. He’s eyeing former New Brunswick and Rutgers standout Nate Harris as his Offensive Coordinator, expects some of his Roselle staff will join him, and anticipates some South Brunswick staff will remain as well.

Now, Roselle will be looking for a new coach as the calendar is about to turn over to June.

Click below to hear Ibrahim Halsey talk to Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko about taking the South Brunswick the job, and his plans for the Vikings in 2024 and beyond: