Yep. Just like Mario has stayed a positions corch. By choice.
He’s expected to boost the Gators’ recruiting reach, especially in South Florida and California, but also serve as sounding board and confidant for McElwain as a former head coach.
“He was a guy that was at the top of my list from a standpoint of the people and how they speak about his integrity, his discipline and his organization and ball-coaching ability,” McElwain said.
“The thing that gets lost, man, this guy is a great ball coach. … I feel it was an unbelievable hire to be able to get that done.”
Shannon was an assistant coach at Arkansas the past two seasons, but said he “didn’t want to get comfortable with [that] situation.”
He refuses to discuss his tenure as UM head coach, or the Nevin Shapiro scandal.
“I never look back,” said Shannon, who was fired in 2010 after going 28-22 at UM.
“If you keep looking back, you’ll forget about something, you’ll miss opportunities. … When you keep looking back in life, you’re going to miss out on a lot of opportunities. … Find a way to wash it and move forward.”
Shannon, 48, is excited about his new opportunity in Gainesville, and said he hasn’t caught too much flak from Hurricanes faithful.
He said he has turned down head-coaching offers in recent years but wants to be a head coach again someday.
Unlike his new Gators pullover, the timing and fit simply aren’t right.
“I look at my job at hand,” he said. “My job at hand is being apart of Florida’s staff and I’m excited about it.
“I’ve been offered defensive coordinator jobs, head-coaching jobs, but it wasn’t the right fit at that particular time. I’m not a guy that’s gonna rush into anything. Right now, my total focus is being at Florida and trying to get to a point where we can make Florida one of the teams in America that people are going to look at like they’ve done in the past and we can get it done.”
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New Gators assistant Randy Shannon won?t discuss UM tenure: ?I never look back? | Miami Herald
Randy may not be a good head coach. But i dont know if you can call him a liar or say he cant coach defense.