Texas Football: Charlie Strong to join Florida Gators coaching staff?

What does it mean for the Florida Gators to get former Texas football head coach Charlie Strong back in the mix as an analyst?

A number of former coaches with the Texas football program bounced around different teams across the country in the last two years. Former Texas head coach Charlie Strong was fired from his position with the South Florida Bulls at the conclusion of the 2019 season. And the North Carolina Tar Heels brought back their former head coach Mack Brown (also formerly with Texas) last year.

Now that former head coach of the Texas Longhorns football program, Strong, could be hitting the reset button on his college football coaching career. Strong could become an analyst under head coach Dan Mullen with the Florida Gators.

If Strong takes that analyst job with Florida, it would be a similar step back to what former Texas analyst Larry Fedora did last year. Fedora took an offensive analyst job under head coach Tom Herman with the Longhorns, and is now set to be the next Baylor Bears offensive coordinator.

However, the report that Strong could be joining the Gators staff as an analyst came from Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun. Strong is a former Florida defensive coordinator, a job that he had prior to taking the head coaching position with Texas and/or the Louisville Cardinals.

The Louisville head coaching job was one that Strong held prior to taking the same position with the Longhorns. Louisville was even ranked in the top 10 for a good stretch of time during the 2013 campaign, when former star quarterback Teddy Bridgewater was lighting it up for the Cardinals.

Strong had a four year stint as the head coach at Louisville before taking that same job with Texas. He was at Texas from 2014-2016, only finishing bowl eligible one season. He also never posted a winning record during his three year tenure on the Forty Acres.

The start at South Florida was good for Strong, but those results dwindled off until he was let go from that program after the 2019 college football regular season ran up. His career head coaching record in the college ranks is 74-53 (if you include his one game as interim with the Gators).

This could be a good spot to start from square one for Strong. Florida and Louisville were really where he built his college football coaching career, until it took a turn for the worst in his latter years with the Longhorns and Bulls.