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Twenty-nine men have served as the Gators' head coach since the university first fielded a team in 1906, including five who served as interim coach for a portion of a season. [ 1 ] Of these, Charlie Bachman, Ray Graves, Doug Dickey, and Steve Spurrier have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Florida's head ...
The following is a list of Florida Gators men's basketball head coaches. There have been 20 head coaches of the Gators in their 104-season history. [1] Florida's current head coach is Todd Golden. He was hired as the Gators' head coach in March 2022, [2] replacing Mike White, who left to become the head coach at Georgia. [3] No. Tenure.
Urban Frank Meyer III (born July 10, 1964) is an American sportscaster and former college football coach. He spent most of his coaching career at the collegiate level, having served as the head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons from 2001 to 2002, the Utah Utes from 2003 to 2004, the Florida Gators from 2005 to 2010, [1] and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018. [2]
William Hall Napier (born July 21, 1979) [2] is an American football coach currently serving as head coach at the University of Florida.From 2017 until 2021, he was head coach at the University of Louisiana, amassing a 40–12 record in four seasons with three consecutive 10+ win seasons and two seasons finishing in the AP Poll, both firsts in the program's history.
Inducted in 2017 [b] (profile) Stephen Orr Spurrier (born April 20, 1945) is an American former football player and coach. He played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) before coaching for 38 years, primarily in college. He is often referred to by his nickname, " the Head Ball Coach ". [2]
The Gators’ second-year coach turned Louisiana into a winner, taking a program that went 5-7 the year before his arrival and going 33-5 in the final three years of his four-year tenure at the ...
In his first year at Florida, he was the third coach in SEC history (and the first in the SEC East) to go to the SEC championship game in his first year. [331] McElwain, the first Gator coach to win more than nine games in his first year at Florida, finished his first regular season with a 10–2 record. [332]
Dickey was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, in 1932, [1] and grew up in Gainesville, Florida, where his father was a speech professor at the University of Florida. [2] After graduating from P.K. Yonge High School in Gainesville, he attended the University of Florida and played for coach Bob Woodruff's Florida Gators football team from 1951 to 1953. [3]