Jon Sumrall not interviewing with Florida as conflicting reports emerge about planned meeting
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Jon Sumrall won’t be interviewing for the vacant head coaching job at Florida on Thursday and there never was an interview scheduled with the current Tulane head coach, according to a report late Wednesday afternoon by Guerry Smith of NOLA.com.
Earlier Wednesday afternoon, there were conflicting reports on Sumrall’s apparent scheduled meeting with UF to discuss its head coaching position. First, a report by On3’s Zach Abolverdi suggested that Florida was set to meet with the 43-year-old Sumrall about bringing him in to replace the fired Billy Napier.
But just a few hours later, On3’s Pete Nakos reported that the meeting had been called off and that Sumrall was removing his name from the list of candidates in Gainesville.
Sumrall is in his 2nd season at Tulane, and right now he has the Green Wave riding high with an 8-2 record and the No. 24 spot in the latest College Football Playoff rankings that were revealed on Tuesday night. Tulane is poised right now to make the Playoff, but amid all of that success Sumrall is also being mentioned for a lot of the current Power 4 coaching vacancies.
Florida appeared to be 1 of those positions that Sumrall was in the mix for, but Wednesday’s latest reported developments now suggest otherwise.
Before he got to Tulane, Sumrall was the head coach at Troy for 2 seasons, winning the Sun Belt Conference title in both of those years.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
