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Pete ThamelESPN
Georgia Tech has targeted interim manager Brent Key arsenic the school's adjacent caput coach, sources told ESPN connected Tuesday.
The woody is expected to beryllium finalized successful the adjacent 24 hours, sources told ESPN.
Georgia Tech went 4-4 with Key arsenic the interim manager arsenic helium took implicit a programme that started the play 1-3 nether Geoff Collins, who went 10-28 with the Yellow Jackets anterior to being fired Sept. 26.
Key led the Yellow Jackets to wins implicit Pitt, Duke, Virginia Tech and North Carolina arsenic they finished 5-7, showing melodramatic upticks successful energy, show and fundamentals.
Key is simply a erstwhile squad skipper and All-ACC violative lineman astatine Tech, starting 44 games from 1997 to 2000. He returned to his alma mater arsenic an adjunct manager successful 2019 and has served arsenic the adjunct caput coach, tally crippled coordinator and violative enactment manager anterior to becoming the interim caput coach.
The sides were expected to conscionable Tuesday day and an statement is expected to travel unneurotic soon after. He's the archetypal prosecute for caller diversion manager J Batt, who came from Alabama to assistance revive Tech's diversion department, which has struggled some financially and athletically successful caller seasons.
Tech interviewed 10 to 12 candidates, according to sources, a radical that included Tulane manager Willie Fritz. Tech struggled lure a large extracurricular sanction due to the fact that of the school's reluctance to warrant ample portions of the contract, arsenic the magnitude of guaranteed wealth was a non-starter for immoderate candidates.
The schoolhouse owes Collins much than $11 cardinal dollars, and fiscal concerns are important there.
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