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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A staff that knows Georgia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Johnson’s new coaching staff won’t need to wear name tags. Most of them have worked with Johnson before and/or known him for a long time.
They also know the Peach State, and that might show up in recruiting in the years to come. In addition to Johnson, who coached two stints at Georgia Southern, and the three holdovers from Chan Gailey’s staff — Brian Jean-Mary, Charles Kelly and Giff Smith, there’s Brian Bohannon, who played at Georgia, and Jeff Monken, who worked with Johnson five seasons at Georgia Southern, and Mike Sewak, who was the coach at Georgia Southern after Johnson left and was an assistant while Johnson was there.
These guys know Georgia.
Johnson fully intends to take advantage of that local knowledge. Everyone on the staff will have in-state recruiting responsibilities, he said. Tech will recruit quarterbacks nationally and continue to look elsewhere for standouts at other positions but will have a close-to-home focus, he said.
It will be interesting to see how that meshes with the availability of academically qualified talent.
Do you think Tech needs more in-state emphasis than it has had (remember, last year’s class was more than half Georgians), less or about the same? Or is the key measure the quality of the local recruits and not the quantity?
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