Not that it makes me any more of an expert, but I have met or known most of them, hired one (Beano Cook), wrote books about one (Spurrier), interviewed a half dozen and been on TV numerous times with one (Finebaum).

(Photo by Chris Spears) Fasten your seatbelts, folks. After four years of blah, blah, blah press conferences in which it seemed Florida’s head football coach was intent on using as many words without actually saying anything during 15 painful minutes, enter Jon Sumrall. He’s the type that if you’re afraid of the answer, you better not ask the question. He spent 37 minutes Monday offering far more info, detail, humor and enthusiasm than the question required. What a concept.

(Photo by Chris Spears) On the first drive of Saturday’s scrimmage, the first unit offense was stuffed on fourth-and-one. Good news for the defense but a serious point of contention for Florida head coach Jon Sumrall, who considers most fourth-and-short situations a money down. “If it's third-and-one and fourth-and-one, we should never get stopped,” Sumrall said at his Monday morning press conference, the irritation obvious in his entire demeanor. “We've got to get better t

That distinction is the real story of Sumrall’s first eight months in Gainesville, and it’s why the mood around this program feels different heading into fall camp. The problem was never a lack of of volume or standards. It was a lack of teeth.

We have been down this road before. Four times to be exact since the Urban Meyer swansong at the Outback Bowl following the worst – 8-5 record – season of his six-year run as Florida’s head coach. Will Muschamp was the head coach in waiting at Texas, the next great thing. Jim McElwain was an offensive genius who had been the coordinator for two Alabama national championship teams. Dan Mullen was Urban Meyer’s offensive coordinator and had put together the most remarkable nine

So let’s ask the obvious question: Why has a Week 3 clash between two teams nobody can definitively rank turned into appointment television?