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Georgia is putting its trust in 24-year-old Ty Hatcher to add some spice to its offense in 2025, hiring Hatcher as an offensive quality control coach, according to a report from FootballScoop.
Georgia is just the latest stop on Hatcher’s SEC coaching tour. The son of current Samford head coach Chris Hatcher, who is the program’s all-time winningest coach, he has already been on the coaching staffs at Alabama, Texas A&M and Oklahoma. And now he’s reportedly heading to Athens to work with an offense that became a little stale last season under the direction of offensive coordinator Mike Bobo.
Hatcher’s father was also Kirby Smart’s first boss as an assistant college football coach at Valdosta State in 2000, so the family ties with Smart run deep and now Chris Hatcher’s son will be coaching under Smart.
Ty Hatcher, who played quarterback at Samford, will try to have a positive influence on the Bulldogs in 2025 after Georgia’s attack didn’t live up to the high expectations set from recent seasons. After winning national titles in 2021 and 2022, Georgia didn’t make the College Football Playoff in 2023 and then flamed out in the Playoff quarterfinals against Notre Dame this past season.
Hatcher will join a Georgia coaching staff that remains unchanged since the end of the 2024 season. Bobo will be back for his 3rd season as offensive coordinator along with 4 other coaches on that side of the ball.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
