Florida head coach Billy Napier made coach Patrick Toney one of the youngest coordinators in the SEC when he hired him to be his defensive coordinator at 31 years old. It’s the same role he held the last two seasons at Louisana. Despite his young age, Toney isn’t intimidated by being one of the youngest coordinators in the conference.
“I always kind of begin with the end in mind,” he said. “This is where I always saw myself, to be honest with you. It means a lot to me that (Napier) promoted me and gave me an opportunity to start calling plays by being a coordinator at a young age. That experience is invaluable and I hope I’ve done my part to prove him right.”
Napier called Toney to offer him a job on Christmas Eve in 2017 even though they had never met before. Napier was assembling his first staff with Louisana and offered him the job based on an assistant’s recommendation.
“Coaching is so crazy,” Toney said, who was 27 at the time. “I was looking to make a move,…