THE FLATS – Brent Jones, who led Troy University athletics to unprecedented success in six years as the Trojans’ director of athletics, has been appointed as associate vice president and executive deputy athletics director at Georgia Tech, vice president/director of athletics Ryan Alpert announced on Wednesday.
“I’m very excited to welcome Brent, his wife, Tracey, and their children, Jaxson and Payton Grace, to the Georgia Tech community,” Alpert said. “Brent has everything that we were looking for to fill such an important role in our athletics department. He is an established leader at the FBS level, a dynamic fundraiser and revenue generator, and a proven brand-builder. He will play a huge role in fulfilling our championship aspirations here on The Flats.”
Jones spent eight-plus years at Troy (March 2017-July 2025), including the last six as senior vice chancellor and director of athletics. In his six years as A.D. (June 2019-July 2025), Troy won 10 Sun Belt Conference championships (regular season and tournament). The titles included two regular-season West Division championships and two Sun Belt Football Championship Game victories in the past three seasons. Additionally, this past year, the Trojans won both regular-season and conference tournament championships in men’s basketball, earning a berth in the 2025 NCAA Tournament.
The Trojans also excelled in several other sports under Jones’ watch. The baseball program spent parts of the last two seasons ranked in the top 25, including every week of the 2025 campaign, when it reached as high as a program-record No. 14 in the national rankings. Troy’s women’s basketball program won the 2020 Sun Belt Conference championship, the 2021 East Division and tournament championships and the 2022 regular-season title, and recently, has experienced its greatest postseason success with a WNIT semifinal appearance in 2024 and berth in the WNIT title game in 2025. The men’s golf program also experienced its best season of its Division I era in 2025, advancing to the NCAA Championship.
The success of Jones’ tenure at Troy was buoyed by strong coaching hires. Four of the seven head coaches that he hired either won conference championships and/or made postseason appearances within the first two years of their appointments, with three (football, baseball and men’s golf) programs earning national rankings.
Record-breaking fundraising and revenue generation were a staple of Jones’ time at…
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