* Gators add Brian Johnson to staff
* Report: Callaway decides future
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For 12 of the last 13 years, Billy Gonzales has coached wide receivers in the SEC. At all three stops – Florida, LSU and Mississippi State – Gonzales coached at least one All-SEC wide receiver. The circumstances were different and the talent varied, but the results were consistent.
As Mississippi State beat writer Brett Hudson of The Commercial Dispatch points out to Inside the Gators, assistants of Dan Mullen know how to get the most out of their players.
“The thing about being on Mullen’s staff at MSU is you had to be a developer, you had to be a teacher,” Hudson said of Gonzales and other Mullen assistants. “They embraced the challenges of Mississippi State and prided themselves on being elite developers of talent as opposed to elite acquirers of talent.”
At Florida and LSU, Gonzales had the fortune of working with some of the most talented wide receivers in the conference. They weren’t always, however, wide receivers he had recruited himself. One of his more impressive All-SEC coaching jobs was Florida’s Chad Jackson in 2005.
