After two years as Florida’s linebackers coach and calling a sound defensive game during UF’s 30-3 Outback Bowl win against Iowa to close the season, Randy Shannon — the former University of Miami head coach — has been promoted to the Gators’ full-time defensive coordinator position, UF announced Friday.
Shannon, 50, served as the interim defensive coordinator for the bowl game after Geoff Collins left to become the head coach at Temple.
“I appreciate the opportunity Coach Mac [Jim McElwain] has given me to be the defensive coordinator at the University of Florida,” Shannon said in a release.