At 35 years old Summers is one of the youngest head coaches in college football, but that has not stopped him from impacting the Sun Belt from the start. According to ESPN, he has garnered the best recruiting class in the Sun Belt with a total of 27 signees for the 2016 class.
Summers was the defensive backs coach at Presbyterian College and GS, a graduate assistant at Troy and Georgia, special teams coordinator at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a defensive coordinator at the University of Central Florida. Athletic Director, Tom Kleinlein, saw the potential in Summers becoming the new head coach of the Eagles.