ATLANTA- Georgia Tech began spring ball on Thursday as Geoff Collins enters a critical new season with six new on-the-field assistants, a new offense, and key new defensive assistants as well to break in. Collins spoke with the media on the record for the first time since December after practice on Thursday.

"It was really good to be back on the grass today," Collins said after practice. "You know we have some new coaches on staff and to get them out there teaching the new offense and then things we are progressing towards on defense is good. They've had four to five-week offseason with coach Lew (Caralla)."

Collins was 30 minutes late to his own presser because he said he wanted to debrief his new coaches immediately following the program to share notes and thoughts after the first day on the field.

"I apologize for being late," he said. "I grabbed the coaches that are new to the organization just to give them some real-time notes that I had taken throughout practice on how to make it cleaner and more efficient to get even better work in."

With so many new faces on the staff, Collins said the holdover assistants brought the new coaches out to the practice fields on Wednesday for a run-through on how practice typically works.

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ROSTER MOVEMENT

As we have previously reported on JOL, last year’s starting center Mikey Minihan has retired after graduating and freshman Ryan Spiers has received a medical and is working with the team as a student assistant. Sources also confirmed that offensive lineman Nick Pendley and defensive end Albany Casey are no longer with the team as well both due to injuries that ended their careers with medicals.

NEW DIGITS FOR NEW JACKETS

RB- Hassan Hall 3

WR- DJ Moore 13

QB- Zach Pyron 14

QB- Zach Gibson 15

RB- Antonio Martin 20

S- Khari Gee 23

CB- Ahmari Harvey 26

DB- Jaylin Marshall 36

LB- Kyle Efford 44

OG- Paul Tchio 57

OG- Pierce Quick 70

TE- Luke Benson 81