By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
Scott Stricklin is trading in his cowbell for a gator chomp.
Mississippi State’s sixth-year athletic director was officially announced as the next athletic director at the University of Florida on Tuesday.
Stricklin leaves behind the school he graduated from in 1992 and became athletic director at in 2010.
“This was a very challenging decision for me to make the decision to leave a place that is my alma mater that is very important to me,” Stricklin said during his introductory press conference in Gainesville on Tuesday.