CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --- North Carolina tight ends coach Tim Brewster is leaving UNC to accept a position as Florida's tight ends coach, multiple sources confirmed to Inside Carolina on Thursday.

Brewster spent the 2019 season as UNC's assistant head coach and tight ends coach. He returned to North Carolina after coaching the Tar Heels under Mack Brown from 1989-1997.

Just last month, Brewster entertained an offer from Texas A&M and its head coach Jimbo Fisher, with whom Brewster worked from 2013-17 at Florida State and 2018 at Texas A&M, before negotiating a raise to remain in Chapel Hill.

Florida head coach Dan Mullen worked with Brewster at Mississippi State from 2012-13 when Brewster coached wide receivers under Mullen for the Bulldogs.

At North Carolina, Brewster furthered his reputation as an ace recruiter, leading the recruitments of All-American defensive linemen Desmond Evans and Clyde Pinder Jr., plus flipping NCSU commitment Jonathan Adorno, in the 2020 class.

"Mack Brown called me," Brewster recalled last May. "He said, 'Brew, we've got unfinished business in Chapel Hill. Let's go back and finish this business. Will you come with me?' And I said, 'Yes' because I know the power of this job. I know what this job can do and what it means and we are here to win. The vision is so crystal clear on how we go about things on a daily basis. The things we need to do to re-establish Carolina as the premier school in the state of North Carolina. And we are doing those things."

Brewster got his start in coaching in Chapel Hill as a volunteer on Mack Brown’s staff in 1989, before quickly earning a paid position. He then followed Brown to Texas (1998-01) before taking NFL jobs with the Chargers (2002-05) and Broncos (2005-07). Then it was back to college to be the head coach at Minnesota (2007-10).

"He can talk to anybody at any time and he’s so confident and he loves this place," Brown said late last year of Brewster. "That’s why he wanted to come back. He was going to retire here anyway and it just happened that when I came back, he wanted to come back early because he had already built a house here, but he is a tireless worker, he’s a tremendous tight end coach, and I think he may be the best recruiter in the country.”

During the 2019 season, UNC's record-setting offense totaled 3,716 receiving yards on 265 receptions and 39 touchdowns. From that total, tight ends accounted for 154 yards on 18 receptions, with three touchdowns.