The college football coaching carousel has begun to slow, with Jon Sumrall taking a new seat.
The Tulane head coach will become the next head coach at Florida, according to several reports, including ESPN’s, which signaled Sumrall will sign a six-year deal worth around $7.5 million per season.
Sumrall has gone 42-11 in four seasons at Troy and Tulane, including a 10-2 mark with the Green Wave this season. He has reached the conference title game in all four years as head coach at the smaller conferences, although the SEC, obviously, will be a jump.
He had played and coached at Kentucky, including serving as co-defensive coordinator in 2021.
Sumrall is a sensible choice, albeit not the loudest: Florida had pivoted away from the sweepstakes for Lane Kiffin, who has hemmed and hawed between Ole Miss and LSU and is expected to land with the latter.
Florida reportedly sensed that Kiffin was not interested in its job and moved on to Sumrall, who also had talked with Auburn and might have been in the mix at Ole Miss, if Kiffin indeed leaves.
Auburn, meanwhile, announced Sunday it has hired South Florida’s Alex Golesh as its next head coach. This weekend also saw Arkansas reportedly land Memphis coach Ryan Silverfield as its next coach.
It is possible next week will start with Ole Miss being the lone SEC school without a head coach.
At Florida, Sumrall will replace Billy Napier, who was fired after going 22-23 in four seasons and was the latest in a line of coaches who had failed in Gainesville.
Dan Mullen, Jim McElwain and Will Muschamp also had underwhelming tenures after the heights reached by Urban Meyer.
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