Florida to hire Mike Locksley as assistant coach, per report

Florida will upgrade its assistant coaching staff by hiring Alabama analyst Mike Locksley, according to Football Scoop.

Sources tells FootballScoop, Mike Locksley has agreed to join the Florida staff after Alabama’s playoff run. Prior to serving this season as an analyst at Alabama, Locks spent the past four seasons at Maryland as offensive coordinator.

Locksley — Locks, to some — has long been renowned as one of the best recruiters in all of college football, and was an integral part of Ron Zook’s recruiting success in his first tour with the Gators early last decade. He also followed Zook to Illinois, where his recruiting successes — notably Juice Williams and Arrelious Benn — helped the…