One of the longest coaching careers in Southern football history ended Monday. Or at least paused.
Ellis Johnson, who was South Carolina’s defensive coordinator from 2008 through 2011 and has coached college football for 36 years, finished a two-year stint as a defensive analyst for the Gamecocks when his contract ran out at the end of April.
“I’ve been cleaning out my desk and office for five weeks, and this isn’t the first time I’ve done it,” Johnson told The State.
Johnson was the Gamecocks defensive coordinator at the beginning of the school’s most successful run in history.