Former Clemson offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter lands new SEC job, per reports
Brandon Streeter has a new job.
Clemson’s former offensive coordinator, who was fired in January after one season in the role, is joining reigning national champion Georgia in an off-field role as an offensive analyst, per multiple reports.
UGASports.com was the first to report Georgia’s hiring of Streeter, who’d spent 15 seasons as a Clemson quarterback, graduate assistant and assistant coach before his firing (Clemson replaced him with former TCU offensive coordinator Garrett Riley). On3 Sports, Dawgs247 and The Athletic also confirmed Streeter’s hiring at Georgia.
Streeter, 46, joins a Georgia program that’s won consecutive College Football Playoff national championship behind coach Kirby Smart, quarterback Stetson Bennett IV and a host of NFL Draft picks on defense.
The Bulldogs became college football’s first repeat champion since Alabama in 2011 and 2012 after beating TCU, 65-7, in the Jan. 9 CFP national championship game.
Along with hiring Streeter, Georgia’s also bringing on former Texas A&M offensive coordinator Darrell Dickey as an offensive analyst, per multiple reports (first by On3 Sports). The Aggies parted ways with Dickey last November.
Georgia’s coaching staff also features Will Muschamp, the former South Carolina head coach who was fired in November 2020 and joined Georgia two months later in an analyst role. Muschamp has since been promoted to Georgia’s co-defensive coordinator position.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney initially promoted Streeter to the program’s offensive coordinator position in December 2021 to replace now-Virginia coach Tony Elliott. At the time, Swinney said he’d interviewed no external candidates for the job and made the decision to hire Streeter in “30 seconds.”
Streeter had built up a strong reputation as a quarterbacks coach and recruiter before assuming Clemson’s offensive coordinator position; he recruited and/or coached recognizable Tigers names including Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence, DJ Uiagalelei and Cade Klubnik.
Just over a year later, Streeter became the first assistant coach to be fired by Swinney since former defensive coordinator Kevin Steele after the 2011 Orange Bowl. Swinney reiterated during Riley’s February introductory news conference that Streeter “absolutely deserved and earned the opportunity to lead our offense.”
“But I just felt like it was the right time,” Swinney said. “We weren’t quite where we needed to be. These are hard decisions, especially when you love the people that are involved.”
Swinney fired on Jan. 12 and formally replaced him a day later with Riley, TCU’s star OC who won the Broyles Award as the nation’s top assistant in 2022 and is widely considered one of the sport’s top young offensive minds. Riley, 33, signed a three-year deal with Clemson that put him at No. 3 nationally among offensive coordinators in terms of base salary ($1.75 million).
Clemson’s offense had come under scrutiny after an 11-3 season, which included an ACC championship win over UNC and Orange Bowl loss to Tennessee in which Clemson had 101 offensive plays and 34 first downs but only 14 points.
In 2022, the Tigers ranked 48th in the country in yards per game, 30th in points per game and 72nd in yards per play. Uiagalelei, their starting quarterback for most of the season, was replaced in the ACC title game in favor of true freshman Klubnik (Uiagalelei has since transferred to Oregon State).
Before joining Clemson, Streeter worked as an offensive coordinator and quarterbacks at Liberty and Richmond. He broke or tied 11 records as a three-year Tigers quarterback and two-year starter from 1997-99.
At the time of Streeter’s firing, Clemson owed him the $1.85 million remaining on his three-year contract, according to the buyout clause of his contract. Streeter was making $925,000 annually.
UGA’s hiring of Streeter will reduce that buyout price, according to a mitigation section of Streeter’s contract. That section states Clemson’s “buyout amount will be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the amount earned by the Coach in full-time employment obtained elsewhere” through 2024-25.
This story was originally published March 20, 2023 at 3:26 PM with the headline "Former Clemson offensive coordinator Brandon Streeter lands new SEC job, per reports."
