Former Navy quarterback Craig Candeto, one of three former Midshipmen to land on Paul Johnson’s Georgia Tech coaching staff this offseason, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday that he hopes to one day become a BCS head coach and, later, a TV analyst. Candeto, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 2004 and served as an F/A-18 pilot before leaving the service, joined former Mids Joe Speed and Lamar Owens on Georgia Tech’s staff. Owens, a quarterback under Johnson while at Navy, has been a graduate assistant the past two years at GT, while Speed had coached the last eight…
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Former Naval Academy quarterback Lamar Owens has a full-time job. Owens, who led the Naval Academy to the Poinsettia Bowl and an 8-4 record in 2005, has been hired by Georgia Tech to be the program’s new “A-backs” coach. Owens had been a graduate assistant for the Yellow Jackets for the past two seasons. Tech’s head coach is Paul Johnson, who coached Navy from 2001-07. Owens is best known for his controversial rape court-martial in 2007. Owens was acquitted of rape, but convictions on lesser charges ended his chance of getting commissioned and got him kicked out the academy without…
So maybe this isn’t exactly breaking news, but former Naval Academy quarterback Lamar Owens is part of Paul Johnson’s Georgia Tech coaching staff. I noticed this for the first time after Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt threw a costly fourth quarter interception in tonight’s Orange Bowl. After the INT, somebody who looked an awful lot like Owens was consoling Nesbit on the sidelines. So I looked it up, and apparently Owens has been a graduate assistant for the Yellow Jackets for two years now, according to his bio on ramblinwreck.com. I had no idea. Owens is best known for his high-profile…
