Billy Gonzales
Billy Gonzales went 1–4 as a head coach, 2025, at Florida. Share
- Record
- 1–4 career
- Seasons
- 1
- Schools
- 1
- Final AP top 10
- 0 seasons
- Born
- Jul 18, 1971
- Alma mater
- Colorado State
- Best season
- 2025 4–8
Season by season
| Season | School | Record | Conference finish | Bowl | AP final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Florida interim, remainder of season | 1–4 | T–11th |
Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.
Players he coached
Caleb BanksNo. 18 pick, 2026
Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick.
How his teams did
| Kind of game | Games | Record | Won |
|---|---|---|---|
| Against ranked teams | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
| Against top-10 teams | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| Against rivals | 4 | 1–3 | 25% |
| Conference games | 4 | 0–4 | 0% |
| Decided by 8 points or fewer | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| At home | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| On the road | 2 | 0–2 | 0% |
| At neutral sites | 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| As our Elo’s favorite | 2 | 1–1 | 50% |
| As our Elo’s underdog | 3 | 0–3 | 0% |
His own five games on file, 2025, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.
Most-faced opponents
| Opponent | Games | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Stateseries | 1 | 1–0 |
| Georgiaseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Kentuckyseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Ole Missseries | 1 | 0–1 |
| Tennesseeseries | 1 | 0–1 |
National title staffs
Every title staff- Won a national title on Florida’s 2006 staff (wide receivers) · the staff · source
- Won a national title on Florida’s 2008 staff (recruiting coordinator, wide receivers) · the staff · source
The champions’ staffs from 1990 on, as the schools listed them that season: Staff lists: Drew Hoover’s how-many-rings (MIT), from the schools’ media guides and staff pages. Roles as the source words them.
Career
| Years | Team | Job | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | MacMurray | Wide receivers coach | |
| 1995–2001 | Kent State | Wide receivers and running backs coach | |
| 2001–02 | Bowling Green | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2003–04 | Utah | Special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2005–07 | Florida | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2008–09 | Florida | Recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2010–11 | LSU | Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2012 | Illinois | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2013 | Mississippi State | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2014–17 | Mississippi State | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2018–19 | Florida | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2020–21 | Florida | Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| 2022 | Florida Atlantic | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2023–25 | Florida | Wide receivers coach | |
| 2025 | Florida | Interim head coach and wide receivers coach | |
| 2026–present | Texas | Offensive assistant |
Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.
Coaching tree
Worked under
- Jim CorrigallKent State
- Dean PeesKent State
- Urban MeyerBowling Green, Utah, Florida
- Kyle WhittinghamUtah
- Les MilesLSU
- Tim BeckmanIllinois
- Dan MullenMississippi State, Florida
- Greg KnoxMississippi State, Florida
- Willie TaggartFlorida Atlantic
- Billy NapierFlorida
- Steve SarkisianTexas
Assistants who became head coaches
- Eric KiesauFresno State
- Ron RobertsDelta State, SE Louisiana
Worked under (11)
| Head coach | Team | Years | His job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Corrigall | Kent State | 1995–97 | Wide receivers and running backs coach | |
| Dean Pees | Kent State | 1998–2001 | Wide receivers and running backs coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Bowling Green | 2001–02 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Utah | 2003–04 | Special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Kyle Whittingham | Utah | 2004 | Special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Urban Meyer | Florida | 2005–09 | 2005–07: wide receivers coach; 2008–09: recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Les Miles | LSU | 2010–11 | Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Tim Beckman | Illinois | 2012 | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Dan Mullen | Mississippi State | 2013–17 | 2013: wide receivers coach; 2014–17: co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Greg Knox | Mississippi State | 2017 | Co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Dan Mullen | Florida | 2018–21 | 2018–19: co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach; 2020–21: passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Greg Knox | Florida | 2021 | Passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach | |
| Willie Taggart | Florida Atlantic | 2022 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Billy Napier | Florida | 2023–25 | Wide receivers coach | |
| Steve Sarkisian | Texas | 2026 | Offensive assistant |
Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
| Coach | With him | Head coach at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Kiesau | Florida, 2025: offensive quality control coach | Fresno State | |
| Ron Roberts | Florida, 2025: EHC, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach | Delta State, SE Louisiana |
Other assistants under him (7)
| Coach | With him | |
|---|---|---|
| John Donovan | Florida, 2025: senior offensive analyst | |
| Rob Sale | Florida, 2025: offensive line coach | |
| Robert Bala | Florida, 2025: co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach | |
| Roy Istvan | Florida, 2025: offensive analyst | |
| Russ Callaway | Florida, 2025: offensive coordinator | |
| Steve Spurrier Jr. | Florida, 2025: offensive assistant | |
| Vinnie Sunseri | Florida, 2025: co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach |
From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.
Pay
| Year | School | Job | Contract pay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mississippi State | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $37,500 | $450,000 USA Today | |
| 2016 | Mississippi State | co-offensive coordinatorbonuses up to $33,333 | $400,000 USA Today | |
| 2015 | Mississippi State | co-offensive coordinator | $375,000 USA Today | |
| 2014 | Mississippi State | co-offensive coordinator | $275,000 USA Today |
USA Today’s coaches salary database (2014–17, from public-records requests to the schools; Rachel Ehlers’ copy): the season’s contract pay, school pay plus outside money, before bonuses.
Pay of public employees in their public job only: head coaches, and assistants in the seasons our records name them a coordinator, at public universities.