Report: Georgia Tech, Brent Key agree to five-year extension, significant salary bump

Georgia Tech and head coach Brent Key agreed to a new five-year deal at the school, running through 2030, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel. The deal has been in the works for weeks, per the report.

Key is expected to receive a significant pay bump after being rumored in the coaching carousel with many large Power Four openings. But, here’s here to say, repping the Yellow Jackets.

This year, Key led Georgia Tech to a 9-3 record, nearly putting themselves in the College Football Playoff conversation. He is 27-19 at his alma mater since taking over midway through the 2022 season.

A former guard for Georgia Tech, Key began his coaching career after graduating in 2000. He began at GT as a GA before becoming an assistant coach at Western Carolina in 2004. After coaching running backs and tight ends, he left for UCF in 2005 and was with the school through the 2015 season.

While with UCF, Key had numerous roles on the offensive staff before working his way up to offensive coordinator in 2014. He was eventually hired by Nick Saban in 2016 at Alabama, coaching the offensive line.

After three seasons in Tuscaloosa, Key was hired by Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech in 2019 as the associate head coach and offensive line coach. The rest is history.

Had Georgia Tech beaten rival Georgia in the final week, they would’ve finished 10-2 and perhaps been in the CFP conversation. Instead, they fell to 9-3 after the 16-9 loss.

“We’ve got to continue to recruit, continue to coach and become better versions of everything we do,” Key said after the game. “It was the same story that we’ve had as far as having to kick field goals over touchdowns. We moved the football several times, and we weren’t able to get into the end zone. You can’t play good football teams and let that happen.”