Georgia Tech targets Brent Key as soccer coach

Georgia Tech has focused interim coach Brent Key as the varsity’s subsequent head coach, sources instructed ESPN on Tuesday.

The deal is anticipated to be finalized within the subsequent 24 hours, sources instructed ESPN.

Georgia Tech went 4-4 with Key because the interim coach, as he took over a program that began the season 1-3 underneath Geoff Collins, who’s owed greater than $11 million by the varsity.

Key led the Yellow Jackets to wins over Pitt, Duke, Virginia Tech and North Carolina as they completed 5-7, displaying dramatic upticks in vitality, efficiency and fundamentals.

Key’s a former group captain and All-ACC offensive lineman at Tech, beginning 44 video games from 1997 to 2000. He returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach in 2019 and has served because the assistant head coach, run sport coordinator and offensive line coach previous to turning into the interim head coach.

The perimeters had been anticipated to fulfill Tuesday afternoon and an settlement is anticipated to return collectively quickly after. He is the primary rent for brand spanking new athletic director J Batt, who got here from Alabama to assist revive Tech’s athletic division, which has struggled each financially and athletically in current seasons.

Tech interviewed 10 to 12 candidates, in keeping with sources, a gaggle that included Tulane coach Willie Fritz. Tech struggled lure a giant outdoors identify due to the varsity’s reluctance to ensure giant parts of the contract, as the quantity of assured cash was a non-starter for some candidates.