ATHENS — Georgia Tech has an opening for its head coach position. When you’re defending the national champion, who has also produced multiple successful Power 5 coaches in recent cycles, schools are going to look at your pool of assistants for options.

Todd Monken and Dell McGee have frequently been mentioned by national pundits as candidates for the opening. Monken is Georgia’s offensive coordinator while McGee has served as Georgia’s running backs coach.

Monken is seen as the offensive coordinator who helped put Georgia over the top. McGee meanwhile has been with Kirby Smart since his first season in Athens. The Georgia running backs coach has strong ties to both the state of Georgia and the Metro Atlanta area. He’s also served as the interim coach at Georgia Southern while also winning state titles as the head coach at Carver-Columbus.

He’s much more than just a running backs coach for the Bulldogs.

“Number one, he is a great recruiter. He’s a great leader of men,” Smart said of McGee. “He’s a great husband and father. He’s been tremendous in all aspects of having someone that has been a head coach before, and you can lean on him for input. He has a good pulse on the team. All of those things are critical to my success and critical to our team’s success.

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