Marco Coleman Will Be On The 2024 College Football Hall Of Fame Ballot

Coleman is one of the top defensive players in Yellow Jackets History

Author:
Jackson Caudell
Publish date:
Jun 5, 2023 12:25 PM EDT

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Former Georgia Tech defensive end and current Yellow Jackets defensive line coach Marco Coleman is going to be on the ballot for the 202 college football Hall Of Fame Class.

Coleman was selected from a pool of hundreds of nominees to be included on the 2024 ballot. The ballot has been emailed to the more than 12,000 NFF members and current Hall of Famers, whose votes will be tabulated and submitted to the NFF's Honors Court, which will deliberate and select the class. The Honors Court, chaired by NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Archie Griffin from Ohio State, includes an elite and geographically diverse pool of athletics administrators, Hall of Famers, and members of the media (Per Georgia Tech PR).

Coleman, who currently serves as Georgia Tech’s defensive line coach, was a three-year starter and two-time first-team all-ACC and all-America selection as an outside linebacker at Georgia Tech from 1989-91. He was a key member of the Yellow Jackets’ 1990 national championship squad and finished his three-year collegiate career as Tech’s all-time leader with 27.5 sacks and 50 tackles for loss (he remains fourth in school history in both categories). His 50 TFL were also the most ever by an ACC player in a three-year career at the end of his time at Tech and remain the fifth-most all-time by an ACC player that played just three collegiate seasons (Per Georgia Tech PR).

Coleman is in his second stint as a member of Georgia Tech’s coaching staff. He returned to The Flats in January after having previously served as the Yellow Jackets’ defensive ends/outside linebackers coach from 2019-21. His coaching resume also includes serving as the defensive line coach at Michigan State in 2022, as well time in the NFL with the Eagles (coaching fellow – 2017) and Oakland Raiders (assistant defensive line coach – 2018) and a season as defensive coordinator at Mandarin H.S. in Jacksonville, Fla. (2017) (Per Georgia Tech PR).

The College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will be announced in early 2024 and will be inducted on Dec. 10, 2024, as part of the 66^th NFF Honors Dinner in Las Vegas.

Sixteen former Georgia Tech student-athletes and three former Tech coaches are already inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, which is located just one mile from Georgia Tech’s midtown Atlanta campus. Former head coach Paul Johnson will officially become the 20^th Yellow Jacket enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame when he is inducted during this year’s NFF Honors dinner on Dec. 5 in Las Vegas (Per Georgia Tech PR).

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