Next up on the list of defensive coordinator candidates is a familiar name: Charles Kelly, who served as an assistant coach at Tech from 2006-12 and recently spent four years as Florida State’s DC.
During a coaching career that has spanned over 20 years, Kelly has bounced around quite a bit—both between schools and between different roles at each stop. Along the way, though, he has spent time as the defensive coordinator at every stop: FCS Jacksonville State (1997-98), Division II Henderson State (1999), FCS Nicholls State (2004-05), Georgia Tech (2012), and Florida State (2014-17). Tracking down info on Kelly’s defenses at the FCS and D-II level from over a decade ago is a bit of a chore, to say the least, but there’s plenty to be gleaned from his brief stint at Tech and his four-year tenure at FSU.