Gators to hire Tulane special teams coordinator Johnathan Galante
The Florida Gators plan to hire Tulane special teams coordinator Johnathan Galante, sources confirmed to Gators Online.
This season, Galante was named a nominee for the 30th annual Broyles Award, which goes annually to college football’s top assistant. It’s named after Frank Broyles, once a UF assistant.
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Per a Tulane release dated Nov. 25, “Tulane’s special teams unit is the best in the American Conference leading the league in net punting (42.48), made field goals (20) and field goal percentage (95.2) while ranking second in kick returns average (23.00). Tulane kicker Patrick Durkin leads the conference in field goals per game (1.82) and field goal percentage (95.2). His 20 field goals this year are already the fourth most in school history for a single season. He also has three made kicks of 50+ including a long of 52 against Temple. His average of 8.5 points per leads all kickers and is sixth among all players. He is fourth among all players in the league in scoring with 93 points. Alec Clark leads the conference and is ranked fourth nationally with his average of 47.5 yards per kick. Anthony Brown-Stephens is placed fifth in the conference in kick return average at 23.3 yards per return.”
Galante just completed his first season with Tulane after three years at Marshall. Before that, he was a special teams analyst at Alabama (2019-2022) and special teams graduate assistant at Virginia Tech (2017-2018).
Other notable Florida Gators coaching hires
| Position | Age | Previous | College experience(years) | SEC (years) | Power 4 (years) | NFL (years) | |
| Jon Sumrall | Head coach | 43 | Tulane head coach | 21 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Buster Faulkner | Offensive Coordinato | 44 | Georgia Tech Offensive Coordinator | 21 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| Brad White | Defensive coordinator | 43 | Kentucky Defensive coordinator | 19 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| Phil Trautwein | Offensive line coach | 39 | Penn State offensive line coach | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Marcus Davis | Receivers coach | 31 | Auburn receivers coach | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Gerald Chatman | Assistant head coach/defensive line | 37 | Tulane defensive line coach (2024 was first season at UF) | 14 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Chris Collins | Safeties coach | 37 | Kentucky co-defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach | 16 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Brandon Harris | Corners coach | 35 | UCF defensive back coach | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Johnathan Galante | Special teams coordinator | — | Tulane special teams coordinator | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0 |