After a seven-win campaign that featured three wins against teams ranked in the top 20 of the national polls and an eight-overtime loss to sixth-ranked, heated in-state rival Georgia, Georgia Tech is poised to make a key hire on its defensive staff, FootballScoop has learned.
Coach Brent Key is working to finalize a deal to hire Kobie Jones away from Alabama to coach the cornerbacks for his Georgia Tech program.
Additionally, FootballScoop has learned, the Yellow Jackets are hiring Mike Polly in an offensive staff, off-the-field support role.
Polly is a longtime college coaching veteran with previous ties to Buster Faulkner, the well-regarded Georgia Tech offensive coordinator who worked with Polly for five seasons last decade at MTSU.
Jones has presently been serving as the assistant cornerbacks coach for Kalen DeBoer's Alabama program.
A Florida native who played collegiately at Alabama State, where he switched from quarterback to defensive back, Jones worked at prestigious IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, following his playing career.
From there, he accepted a graduate assistant role inside the Crimson Tide program and eventually was named the assistant cornerbacks coach.
Jones already has a natural tie to the Georgia Tech program: his former head coach at Alabama State, Donald Hill-Eley, is the Yellow Jackets'
With the two parties working to finalize the deal, Jones is in position to fill the void left midseason when Ricky Brumfield resigned for unspecified reasons in late October.