Mel Tucker has made his first coaching hire for the Colorado Buffaloes. After retaining Coach Chiaverini and Coach Hagan, two pretty obvious picks given their connection to the program and recruiting, Tucker brought in his first outside face in Jay Johnson.
Tucker knowns Johnson from their time together last year on the Georgia staff, where Jay was an offensive analyst. Prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Minnesota for just one year in 2016. Stretching further back, he spent five years running a record-setting offense at University of Louisiana – Lafayette and worked at Kansas for three years as a QB coach, among other jobs.