Richard to serve as quality control coach for offensive line

By
Ethan Hughes
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Mike Richard has joined the Gators’ staff as a quality control coach. He will assist offensive line coaches Rob Sale and Darnell Stapleton and fellow quality control coach Cheston Blackshear.

He worked at Louisiana from 2014-21, which included all four years of the Billy Napier era. During this time, he worked with two NFL Draft picks in Kevin Dotson and Robert Hunt. Additionally, 13 of his players garnered All-Sun Belt honors, and the Ragin’ Cajuns offensive line was named a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award three times.

The Carencro, Louisiana, native helped the program win four consecutive Sun Belt West titles and the outright 2021 conference championship.

Ethan Hughes
Ethan Hughes
Ethan was born in Gainesville and has lived in the Starke, Florida, area his entire life. He played basketball for five years and knew he wanted to be a sportswriter when he was in middle school. He’s attended countless Gators athletic events since his early childhood, with baseball being his favorite sport to attend. He’s a proud 2019 graduate of the University of Florida and a 2017 graduate of Santa Fe College. He interned with the University Athletic Association’s communications department for 1 ½ years as a student and also wrote for InsideTheGators.com for two years before joining Gator Country in 2021. He is a long-suffering fan of the Jacksonville Jaguars. You can follow him on Twitter @ethanhughes97.