“Reed was with us last year coaching receivers and did a really good job, as I knew he would,” Wittenberg head coach Joe Fincham said. “I don’t know if anyone knows our offense better than that guy does. It was a pretty easy selection.”
Florence was the North Coast Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year as a senior in 2013. He set a school record with 3,366 yards and 38 touchdowns. The Tigers were 20-4 in his two seasons as a starter. They won a share of the NCAC title when he was a junior and the outright championship when he was a senior.
Florence began his coaching career in 2014 as the quarterbacks coach at Marian University in Indianapolis. In 2015, he moved to Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He coached safeties at Wittenberg last season.
“Reed has a very high football IQ,” Fincham said. “He was one of those players who not only was a good player but a guy who was always hanging around the office. He liked to watch film. You could go into a ballgame with Reed with a lot of different checks and adjustments because he could handle it all. He had a real calmness about him when he did it.”
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