Tyler Santucci will earn $600,000 in his first year coordinating the Georgia Tech defense, according to documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
That figure places Santucci on the lower end of Power 4 defensive coordinators, as chronicled by FootballScoop, equal to Kansas defensive coordinator Brian Borland and Oklahoma State co-coordinator Joe Bob Clements. Coordinators at rivals like Georgia, Florida State, and Clemson all earn well north of $1 million, with the first two at or above $2 million.
However, Santucci is new to the coordinating game, and he won't make $600,000 for long.
The 35-year-old coordinated his first defense at Duke last season, under a defensive-minded head coach in Mike Elko. He previously worked as a co-coordinator at Texas A&M, and as the linebackers coach at A&M, Wake Forest, and Texas State, and as an analyst at Notre Dame. Santucci played at Stony Brook and spent the first few years of his coaching career at his alma mater.
Santucci signed a 3-year deal that shoots up to $850,000 for the 2025 and '26 campaigns.
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