"Florida is finalizing a six-year deal to hire Tulane's Jon Sumrall the next head coach of the Gators, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Sunday. The deal is for an average of nearly $7.5 million per year, with significant incentives tied to the College Football Playoff, sources told ESPN. Sumrall, who is 42-11 in four seasons as a head coach -- two in the Sun Belt at Troy and two in the American at Tulane."
"He has reached the conference title game in all four seasons. He brings extensive experience in the SEC, as he played and was a graduate assistant at Kentucky, coached linebackers at Ole Miss (2018) and inside linebackers at Kentucky. Sumrall will succeed Billy Napier, who was fired in mid-October and replaced by interim coach Billy Gonzales. The Gators finished with a 4-8 record after beating rival Florida State on Saturday."
Florida is finalizing a six-year deal to hire Tulane's Jon Sumrall as the next head coach of the Gators. The deal averages nearly $7.5 million per year and includes significant incentives tied to the College Football Playoff. Sumrall is 42-11 in four seasons as a head coach, with two seasons at Troy in the Sun Belt and two at Tulane in the American. He has reached the conference title game in each of those seasons. Sumrall has SEC experience as a former player and graduate assistant at Kentucky, and as a linebackers coach at Ole Miss and Kentucky. He will succeed Billy Napier after a 4-8 season.
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