These are busy times for Edrick Floreal.

Named head coach of the University of Kentucky track and cross country programs on Monday, Floreal is full speed at assembling a staff and contacting his new athletes.

He's doing so from Palo Alto, Calif., where he's also organizing things for whomever will be the successor to the job he just resigned from — head coach at Stanford.

And, by the way, he's also preparing to be jumps coach for Team USA at the Summer Olympic Games, which open in London on July 27.

He plans to fulfill his Olympic role, "but my No. 1 goal is to get a staff and to get UK in the right direction," Floreal said during a phone interview from Palo Alto. "So I'm hoping I can (go to London). ... That's a big opportunity to represent your country."

A UK assistant from 1995 through 1997, Floreal moved to Stanford as an assistant in 1998. He took over as head coach in 2005.