Coach Jonas Hayes shares his journey from growing up in Atlanta and going to high school with TI to becoming a D1 Head Coach at Georgia State.

Him and his twin brother [Jarvis] attended Western Carolina during their freshman season before transferring to the University of Georgia to play for the Bulldogs in their home state. Jarvis went on to play in the NBA and Jonas began his coaching career as an Assistant Coach at Morehouse State then South Carolina State before spending the next five seasons at Belmont Abbey College.

The University of Georgia offered him a job in 2012 and he left Belmont Abbey to be on Mark Fox's coaching staff and he remained there until 2018 when he moved on to Xavier where he would be promoted to Associate Head Coach, and then named the Interim Head Coach during the 2022 NIT, Coach Hayes led Xavier to a NIT Championship going 4-0 as the Interim Head Coach despite Sean Miller being hired to be the next Head Coach at Xavier starting in the 2022-23 season.

Coach Hayes was introduced as the Head Coach at Georgia State University on April 6, 2022.

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