McCollum excited to get started at Tech

Andy McCollum remembers going to Georgia Tech games when he was a boy growing up in Marietta. He remembers waking up on Thanksgiving excited about going to watch the “Bullpups” and the Yellow Jackets play each year. Now, after recently being hired as Tech’s defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, he said he’s excited about making some new memories. “It’s an honor,” McCollum said on Thursday as he was driving from Raleigh to Atlanta with a car full of clothes. McCollum and Tech coach Paul Johnson have known each other since the mid-1980s when McCollum was an assistant at Middle Tennessee State and Johnson an assistant at Georgia Southern. The respect runs deep for the expertise that the other brings to that side of the ball. When the two became head coaches at their schools, McCollum was in the process of leading the Blue Raiders from the I-AA to I-A level. As he was scheduling Georgia and Florida, he said Johnson called him and aske...