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GAINESVILLE — Florida basketball coach Todd Golden sees some of himself in new football coach Jon Sumrall .

The fellow Gators and fast friends hope it leads to more national-title success in Gainesville.

Golden is confident Sumrall has the right stuff to resurrect a football program picking up the pieces after four sub-par seasons under Billy Napier .

“He seems great,” Golden said Monday on the eve of UF’s matchup with UConn in Madison Square Garden. “From the moment I spoke to him on the phone, I was like, ‘This guy seems like our kind of guy.’ I think he has a very similar mentality to what I did when he got the opportunity. Just like, ‘Man, getting a chance to coach at Florida, you can do some great things.'”

Golden’s fast rise a

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