GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida will hire Arkansas assistant and former Miami head coach Randy Shannon to its staff under new head coach Jim McElwain, GatorBait.net has confirmed.

Sources inform GatorBait.net that Shannon will coach linebackers.

An excellent recruiter in South Florida, Shannon will immediately give Florida a major boost recruiting in the state. He also checks the boxes for SEC experience after spending the past two years at Arkansas, something that has been key for McElwain so far in his search for assistants.

While GatorBait.net has not yet obtained contracts for the four coaches the Gators have hired since Will Muschamp was fired (it usually takes a few months for them to be made available via public records requests), Florida certainly seems to be willing to open the checkbook so far.

Florida's three assistants hired so far under McElwain made a combined $465,000 more than their UF counterparts in 2014, according to USA Today's salaries database.

McElwain is also slated to make about $775,000 more than Muschamp was being paid.