Box Elder High opened its football head coaching job in October ahead of longtime coach Robbie Gunter’s transition into administration.

The school wanted a wide range of applicants to choose from and got pretty much what it wanted in that regard.

Monday, the Bees announced that Logan High head coach Carson Mund would be their next coach.

“It’s a dream come true. This is something that I decided I wanted to do since I was 13 years old, so it’s been a dream come true. Everything I’ve done to this point as an assistant and (going) different places have been to get this opportunity,” Mund told the Standard-Examiner.

Mund found out he got the head job at Box Elder on Saturday night and told the Logan team Monday. He’ll teach at BEHS, but in a yet-to-be-determined capacity.

Mund is no stranger to Box Elder High. He graduated from the school, as did his siblings, parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents, he said.

“And along with that, just the love that I built over my time here growing up, watching the previous Box Elder Bees play in the ’90s and 2000s, those are all kind of the fond memories I have,” Mund said.

Mund was previously an assistant coach for the Bees for five seasons, though not consecutively. He was an assistant in 2010, 2013-14 and 2018, was the head coach at West Jordan from 2019-20, then at Weber in 2021, then Box Elder again in 2022 before moving to the Logan head job for this season. Box Elder, Mund said, was the only job he’d leave Logan for.

Logan went 2-8 and was outscored 420-167 in Mund’s only season as head coach there. The Grizzlies have struggled with participation numbers lately and, football-wise, have way fewer players than their Region 11 and 4A classification peers, which fueled the school’s unsuccessful push to move down to the 3A classification during the last realignment.

At Box Elder, Mund says he plans to keep the 4-2-5 defense in place but isn’t quite sure about the offense until he has a better idea of what the team looks like. Ideally, he’d like Box Elder to be a spread offense team, which would be a drastic change from the Wing-T it’s ran over the years.

“The biggest thing we want to accomplish is develop a culture in the weight room, where we’re bigger, faster, stronger every year. The goal ultimately would be to be the strongest and fastest teams on the field every week, so it’s just trying to get to that point where we can do that,” he said.

Mund’s hire makes three football head coach openings left in Northern Utah high schools during what’s been an unusually active coaching cycle. Fremont and Clearfield’s jobs have been open for weeks. There’s been no definitive word where each school is in the process; however, they’re both expected to be nearing the end of their respective searches.

Syracuse’s job, which opened after seven-year head coach Mike Knight took the head coach job at new school West Field last week, has been posted to the Davis School District website and closes Friday.

Connect with reporter Patrick Carr via email at pcarr@standard.net, Twitter @patrickcarr_ and Instagram @standardexaminersports.

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