{"id":82975,"date":"2025-12-14T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82975\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T11:33:10","slug":"gators-poach-new-db-coach-from-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/82975\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators Poach New DB Coach from Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla.&#8211; UCF defensive backs coach Brandon Harris appeared poised to land at Florida State. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/florida\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Gators<\/a> head coach Jon Sumrall had other plans.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is now expected to be the next defensive backs coach at Florida, CBS Sports&#8217; Matt Zenitz reported late Friday. Harris was previously reported to be the expected hire at Florida State earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>Harris spent one season with UCF, making an immediate impact for the Knights. In 2025, UCF ranked 25th nationally in pass defense with 185.1 yards per game, the lowest since 2001, while also only allowing 13 touchdown passes all season.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of his coaching performance, Harris was named to the 2026 AFCA 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla.&#8211; UCF defensive backs coach Brandon Harris appeared poised to land at Florida State. Florida Gators head&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-82975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}