WHERE ARE THEY NOW:

FLORIDA’S 1996 NATIONAL CHAMPION COACHES

Steve Spurrier, Head coach

Spurrier left UF after the 2001 season, spent time as head coach of the Washington Redskins in the NFL and the South Carolina Gamecocks and returned to Florida as an ambassador and consultant in late June. He is still the only person to have won a Heisman Trophy and coached a Heisman winner.

Bob Stoops, Defensive coordinator

Stoops left UF in 1998 and has been the head coach at Oklahoma ever since, winning the 2000 national championship.

Jimmy Ray Stephens, Offensive line coach

Stephens is in his fifth year as the head coach at Walton High in DeFuniak Springs.

Lawson Holland, Tight ends coach

Holland is now a department chair and professor at Horry-Georgetown Technical College in Myrtle Beach, S.C., where students can get sports tourism degrees under his guidance.

Carl Franks, Running backs coach

Franks was the head coach at Duke for five years and running backs coach at South Florida for nine years. He is now the running backs coach at Bethune-Cookman.

Dwayne Dixon, Wide receivers coach

Dixon is coaching wide receivers at Ohio University and has been since 2007 when he went there from N.C. State. His son, Ian, just finished his Ohio career as a wide receiver.

Barry Wilson, Special teams coach

Wilson is retired and living in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Bob Sanders, Assistant defensive coordinator

Sanders turned to the NFL after he left Florida in 2000 and is on his fifth professional team — the Arizona Cardinals — as linebackers coach.

Jim Collins, Recruiting coordinator and linebackers coach

Collins followed Spurrier from Duke to Florida and then Florida to the Washington Redskins. He returned to Duke — where he started coaching as a grad assistant — in 2008 where he is now the director of football relations and assistant to the head coach.

Rod Broadway, Defensive tackles coach

Broadway is the head coach at North Carolina A&T, where his team is looking for its third straight MEAC title.