The Monday hiring of former Belmont coach Cameron Newbauer — Cam, from here on in — to replace the departed Amanda Butler as Florida’s women’s basketball coach was a swift pivot for the Gators from a reported failure to land San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon after a conspicuous pursuit.
But in Newbauer, Scott Stricklin’s first major hire as Florida’s athletic director, the Gators ended up with a coach not unlike most of the ones that Jeremy Foley made during his legendary tenure at the top in Gainesville.
Newbauer is 38.