The hunt continues: What Gators need in new defensive assistant

Dan Mullen smiles after a stop against Georgia in 2019 / GatorCountry photo by David BowieWhen Dan Mullen and the Florida Gators let Torrian Gray and Ron English go, they could not have expected the whirlwind of a coaching search to follow.

The Gators hired former Auburn defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff a couple of weeks back, but a gaping hole still remains in that second position.

High-profile coaches including Travaris Robinson, Chris Ash and Maurice Linguist were all expected to put pen to paper at one point or another, but seemingly slipped through the cracks.

Robinson found a new home at Miami, Ash joined Urban Meyer’s Jacksonville Jaguars staff and reports say Linguist is headed to…