Bob Sanders
Assistant Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Ends Coach

Coaching Experience

1995-96 Florida (Asst Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Ends)
1994    Florida (Defensive Line Coordinator/Defensive Ends)
1991-93 Florida (Banditbacks/Gatorbacks/Assistant Defensive Co-Coordinator)
1990    Florida (Defensive Ends)
1985-89 Duke (Outside Linebackers/Defensive Ends/ Co-Defensive Coordinator)
1983-84 Richmond (Linebackers)
1980-82 East Carolina (Defensive Line/Linebackers)
1979    Douglas Byrd High School, Fayetteville, N.C. (Head Coach)
1978    Georgia Tech (Junior Varsity Coordinator/Assistant Defensive Line)
1976-78 Southwest Onslow High School, Jacksonville, N.C. (Defensive Coordinator)

Bowl Games as a Coach

1978  Peach
1989  All-American
1992  Sugar
1992  Gator
1994  Sugar
1995  Sugar
1996  Fiesta

Coaching Accomplishments

Coached in the 1995 National Championship Game in the Fiesta Bowl vs. Nebraska. 
                                
Has coached on five conference championship teams (Duke - 1989, Florida - 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995).
                                
Helped UF to place among the nationŐs top 10 in rushing defense four times in the last six years.
                                
UF has also ranked among the SECŐs top four in stopping the run in each of the last six seasons.
                                
Named the SEC's "1994 Assistant Coach of the Year" by the Birmingham Touchdown Club (in a vote of league coaches).
                                
The 1994 Gator defense set a UF record by allowing just 84.6 yards rushing per game, fifth-best in the nation. Florida also allowed just 17.1 points per game, which was 16th-best nationally. UF allowed 305.3 yards per game in total offense, ranking 19th in the country.
                                
Florida is the only SEC school to own one of the league's four-best rushing defenses each of the past six years, ranking first in '90, first in '91, fourth in '92, second in '93, first in '94 and fourth in '95. 

Florida is also the only SEC school to rank among the nation's top-10 rushing defenses in four of the past six seasons.
                                
The 1991 team ranked 13th in the nation in scoring defense (13.8 ppg.) and was the first since 1972 to post shutouts of two SEC teams.

Personal Information

Birthdate:      December 5, 1953                
Hometown:       Jacksonville, N.C.              
Education:      1976 - B.S. in Political Science from Davidson College 1972 - Jacksonville High School in Jacksonville, N.C.
Marital Status: Married to the former Kathie Martin
Children:       Lindsay (17), Sarah (16), Robbie (5)