After 25 years and 27 national titles on his watch, longtime UF athletics director Jeremy Foley is stepping down, a UF source said, confirming a report by the Associated Press.
Foley, 63, joined the athletics department in August 1976 as an intern in the ticket office and eventually rose to the top of the department, replacing Bill Arnsparger in 1992, at age 39.
Foley will remain as UF AD until October, the AP reported.
Foley unquestionably would become the most successful athletics director in school history.
The Gators won their first of three national titles in football in 1996 and won back-to-back men's basketball titles in 2006 and 2007 under Billy Donovan, whom Foley hired in 1996 as a 29 year old.