Florida football's chief staff member interviews for UGA job

Florida football chief of staff Mark Robinson reportedly interviewed with the Georgia Bulldogs for a similar role in Athens on Wednesday, sources told 247Sports national college football reporter Matt Zenitz.

Robinson arrived in Gainesville at the start of the calendar year, with a focus on setting up a front-office-type structure that would help manage personnel throughout the year — similar to how an NFL front office would operate.

“Mark Robinson’s been outstanding,” Florida head coach Billy Napier offered back in March.

“Just that direct line of communication with Florida Victorious, our current players, their parents, their representation. It’s a new world. We’re living in a new world.”

The off-field staff member had already contributed to the Gators in his first seven months with the program.

“(I)t’s definitely helped me and I would tell you that for the first time, I think all of our systems are built,” Napier continued. “We’ve had quite a bit of change over the last couple of years. So it’s the first offseason where you’re not building a system right in the middle of it. So it’s been great.”

Florida’s skipper had even more positive words to shower on his top off-field staffer, who serves in a role that ostensibly makes him a general manager for football operations.

“Hiring Mark Robinson’s been good. I think we have a forward-facing person that’s kinda the front office, in-house, that works with Florida Victorious,” Napier said.

“We’ve made some adjustments in the personnel department, Jacob LaFrance is the general manager. We’ve got good workflow there. Bird Sherril heading up the portal side, so, we’re executing there. I feel like all those systems are up and running pretty good.”

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