Napier’s Florida staff starts taking shape with Toney, Hocke

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — New Florida football coach Billy Napier’s staff is starting to take shape. Napier hired four assistants who spent the last four years with him at Louisiana-Lafayette, including Patrick Toney as the team’s co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach and Mark Hocke as the team’s associate head coach and director of strength and conditioning. He also chose Jabbar Juluke as the team’s running backs coach and Ryan O’Hara as an offensive analyst in charge of quarterbacks. Napier negotiated a $7.5 million salary pool to hire 10 full-time assistants. He is expected to part ways with most or all of former Florida coach Dan Mullen’s staff.