Steve Addazio, Paul Johnson met this one time, at football camp …

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Boston College and Georgia Tech have not played each other since 2012, the year before Steve Addazio became Eagles head coach.

But he has quite the familiarity with the Jackets’ offense. You could even say, a love for the Jackets’ offense.

Wait, is an opposing coach allowed to say that?

When you are Addazio, you can. As a first-time coach at Western Connecticut State in 1985, he learned the wishbone from Paul Pasqualoni. Then when Addazio left to run Cheshire (Conn.) High in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he ran the wishbone and won three state titles in a row (not to mention reeling off a 34-game winning streak).

It was not long before he found himself working for Bob Davie at Notre Dame in 1999, on staff with Urban Meyer and Kevin Rogers. Davie always had a fascination with aspects of the option offense (mostly because he hated defending it). When he took over with the Irish in 1997, there was one coach on his list for potential offensive coordinators: Paul Johnson. The discussions never led anywhere, as Johnson ended up as head coach at Georgia Southern.

Two years later, their paths would (sort of) cross. Davie sent Addazio, Meyer and Rogers on a mission to Georgia Southern, where Johnson ran his version of the spread-option offense.

“He …

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