Buster Faulkner, who boasts 18 years of experience on college football staffs – including 11 as an offensive coordinator – and three national championship rings, is in his first season as the offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech. 

Faulkner comes to Tech after winning two national titles in three seasons as an offensive quality control assistant for quarterbacks at Georgia (2020-22). At UGA, he played a significant role in constructing and fielding one of the college football’s top offenses, highlighted by the Bulldogs finishing in the top five nationally both in scoring (41.3 ppg) and total offense (501.1 ypg) in 2022. Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett IV finished fourth in voting for the 2022 Heisman Trophy in Faulkner’s final year on the UGA staff. 

Prior to his three-year stint at Georgia, he spent the previous 10 seasons as offensive coordinator at Southern Miss (2019), Arkansas State (2016-18), Middle Tennessee (2011-15*) and Murray State (2010). His 11 seasons as a coordinator also includes a season as OC at Valdosta State in 2008. He also coached quarterbacks at Central Arkansas in 2009, coached QBs at Valdosta State in 2007 and was a graduate assistant at Georgia in 2006. 

In all, he has won three national championships, six conference titles and five division crowns at the collegiate level and a state championship at the high school level as a player and coach at Parkview High School. 

He and his wife, Tia, have a son, Harrison, and two daughters, Hadley and Haisley.