The Florida Gators fanbase doesn't like the idea of hiring Jon Sumrall very much. After UF seemingly pulled ahead in the Sumrall sweepstakes following Lane Kiffin's eliminating them from consideration of his own future, Hail Florida Hail's Benjamin Henderson doesn't like a historical trend that works against the Tulane Green Wave head coach's potential success in Gainesville:
Coaches from the American Conference have never gone on to do great things at the Power 4 level.
"The other knock on Sumrall is that he would have to pull off something almost no other American Conference coach has," Henderson prefaced before saying, "Since the inception of the conference in 2013, there have been almost zero success stories of a conference title-winning coach moving up to the Power Four and having a successful run.