Less than a month after Scott Stricklin finally fired Billy Napier, the Florida Gators AD has fired another head coach in Gainesville. Florida Soccer head coach Samantha Bohon has been relieved of her duties, and the Gators will start the search for a new coach.
Bohon inherited a Grade A dumpster fire, but she also did little to pull Florida out of the ashes.
Samantha Bohon fired as Florida Soccer coach
In case one needs a quick history lesson, longtime coach Becky Burleigh retired in 2021. Burleigh won a national title in 1998 and made the Elite Eight as recently as 2014 and 2017.
Stricklin went out and hired Tony Amato after having moderate success with the Arizona Wildcats. Amato would go on to finish 4-12-4 in 2021 and would get fired amid accusations of abuse and toxicity towards athletes.
This is where Bohon entered the picture.
Bohon had been the longtime coach at Embry-Riddle and led the program in its transition from NAIA to Division 2. Bohon was the Sunshine State Conference Coach of the Year in 2021, and that was enough to convince Stricklin to bring her aboard.
But while Bohon had been a player at Duke in the 90s and was an assistant coach with Tennessee for four seasons, she had zero Division 1 head coaching experience when she took the job in Gainesville.
And it showed.
At the root of Florida's problems was a complete inability to establish an attacking identity. In 2025, the Gatros scored just 27 goals total, tied for 145th in the country.
This is after Florida was dead last in the SEC in goals in 2024 and 2022, and was next to last in 2023.
Florida failed to make the SEC Tournament in 2022, 2023, and 2024. They made it this year and were promptly bounced after one game.
Pretty much anytime the Gators managed to get any kind of positive result, it was a byproduct of turtling and relying on goalkeeping to get a 0-0 draw.
Florida was third-to-last in the SEC in shots per game in 2025, while it was also third in saves per game, indicating a consistent one-way flow of play.
Bohon leaves with a record that even Billy Napier would look at and go yikes. She leaves Gainesville with an overall record of 18-34-18 and an SEC record of 5-23-12.
Florida claims it will conduct a national search, hoping to revive a once-proud program.