Contract details for Florida's new head strength coach Tyler Miles

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Florida Gators New Head Strength Coach Tyler Miles

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida made a total of 12 hires this offseason, including Tyler Miles being promoted to director of football strength and conditioning. He previously worked in a sports science role as the director of player athletic development.

Through a public records request, Gators Online obtained the contracts this week for UF’s football staff, including Miles. He received a new contract and promotion on Feb. 7, signing a one-year deal for $400,000 that runs through January 31, 2025.

Miles replaced director of football performance Craig Fitzgerald, who left the program after five weeks to rejoin his former boss Bill O’Brien at Boston College. Fitzgerald has served as a mentor to Miles, who worked under him at Tennessee in 2018.

“Coach Miles had done a phenomenal job with the programming part. Really, he and the rest of his staff giving Fitz insight into maybe where we were at as a program and what we needed. Tyler Miles was at the core of everything that we were doing. I think our players knew that. Our staff knew that. We didn’t want to blow it up and start over but more importantly we felt confident in Tyler relative to being able to do the job. He was, essentially, a huge part of what we were doing. Tyler’s got a strength and conditioning background and he’s got a performance science role. We promoted him and we’ve been able to surround him with really good people.”

Napier added that he had a dozen players in his office lobbying for Miles to get promoted. That group included starting quarterback Graham Mertz and senior linebacker Derek Wingo, two of the senior leaders on the team.

“First and foremost I love everybody on this team and for them to do that, to help with this monumental change in my life, I owe them the best that I can give them every day. And I’ll never, ever forget that,” Miles said. “So having them do that means the world to me, and it shows as much as I might be hard on them or stern with them that they love me for it, and they love us for it, the rest of the staff. It’s helping me do it, so I can’t say enough great things and say thank you to those guys for doing that. And I had no idea they were doing that, so when coach told me that, I was grateful.”

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