It’s been 40 days since the Billy Napier era ended in Gainesville. Florida’s coaching search was heating up, and Jon Sumrall from the Tulane Green Wave was the head coach everyone had circled. Turns out the Tulane coach isn’t feeling it anymore. The dream fizzled. Sumrall isn’t biting as he got busy with something more important.

On November 19, Gators Online senior writer Zach Abolverdi tweeted, “UPDATE: UF’s scheduled meeting with Jon Sumrall has been called off and Sumrall is removing his name from the mix in Florida’s coaching search, per @PeteNakos.” Just three hours before this tweet, Pete Nakos reported that Florida was about to fix a meeting with Sumrall on Thursday, November 20. But what made him change the plans at the last minute?

Priorities! For Sumrall, the Tulane

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