Mel Tucker is inching closer to filling out his staff. He has reportedly filled both coordinator positions, hiring Jay Johnson for OC and Tyson Summers for DC. Both were analysts last year at Georgia, working for and with Tucker in 2017. Johnson was fresh off an abrupt end to his stint as Minnesota’s OC after the entire coaching staff was fired, and Summers had to rehab his career after a disastrous stint as Georgia Southern’s head coach. Georgia scooped them up, and from all accounts, they did great work in their time in Athens.
Here’s why this is concerning.