The biggest difference between Sumrall and Napier

I’m seeing a lot of fans who think potentially hiring Sumrall would be Billy Napier 2.0. On paper it’s a fair comparison as both are G5 coaches who didn’t have big time P5 Head coaching experience. However, one main separator is sumrell has had success as the head coach AT 2 programs. He turned around Troy right away in his two seasons there along with doing a good job with what Fritz left him at Tulane. ULL was the only head coaching job Napier had prior to Florida . He also didn’t have any big time coordinator experience in the SEC perior to the Florida job.


Sumrall was DC for a top 25 defense at Kentucky in 2021 while also being a former lb at Kentucky so he has experience as a player and coordinator in the SEC. So success in two places and SEC experience are the big separators between the 2.

I truly think if we go hard we’re Sumrall it’ll come down to how big politics will get involved more then fears over his lack of experience as Blake Ruffino brought up an interesting point on his pod that Landry may not want to poach a coach from Tulane and place him at the biggest school in the state.