Orlando Sentinel · Dec 2, 2025
With Gator legends Spurrier, Meyer on hand, Jon Sumrall vows, ‘We’re going to win.’
New Florida football coach Jon Sumrall is introduced by athletic director Scott Stricklin Monday at the UF campus in Gainesville. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel)GAINESVILLE — With Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer in the audience and a skeptical fan base tuned in, new Gators football coach Jon Sumrall made a Tim Tebow-like promise he expects to keep.
Sumrall didn’t shy away from the enormous — and at times unrealistic — expectations at Florida when he was introduced Monday at the Heavener Football Center.
“The standard here is championships,” he said. “That’s why I came. I’m built for this job. I was made for this job. Winners win; I’m a winner; we’re going to win.”