When the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets take the field for the Quick Lane Bowl on Dec. 26, two head coaches will stand in stark contrast to each other. One is nearing the end of his sixth year as a head coach and his second year at Minnesota, where he hopes to build something special. The other is closing out a head coaching career that started 20 years ago, culminating in a successful 11-year stint at Georgia Tech.
I spoke with Benjamin Tankersley, co-manager of the Georgia Tech SB Nation site From the Rumble Seat, about Johnson’s decade-long tenure with the Yellow Jackets.