G5 Jon Sumrall throwing shots at Kiffin

LSU also didn’t say he couldn’t coach. Ole Miss did

My impressions of Sumrall and Golding are that they like to hear themselves talk. They say things, almost scripted stories or cute analogies that they rehearsed 100 times in prep for questions they know are coming. The media and their fans eat it up of course. Good for them, it just comes off as disingenuous to me.

FWIW my comments aren’t related to Sumrall’s Kiffin piece, which was relatively harmless. I do think he’s full of crap that he’d have walked away from Florida if they’d told him he was needed immediately in Gainesville (which would have been reasonable) and couldn’t coach Tulane in the playoffs. But I understand why he says it. I’ve just found his rah rah tough guy schtick a little over the top since his introductory press conference at UF.

Re: Golding, I think he’s trying too hard to pander to the OM fans, when he’s got no skins on the wall. Again though I also get why he says what he does, it just comes off poorly IMO. I do think his comments on Kiffin today were classy, even if he did seem hyped up on speed. He was entertaining.

As if we needed more excuses to love Kiffin.

He might be a good coach, but the SEC is 50x harder than the joke of a schedule he faced at Tulane. Good luck.

And if Tulane told you you couldn’t, you couldn’t.

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Guy comes off so cheesy to me.

I would’ve been bummed if LSU had hired him. Sounds like he wasn’t even in consideration though.

He’s getting his first chance at a P5 job.
Let him talk.

We’ll see where he is 3 years from now.

He did a good job at Tulane, he earned a shot… let’s see what he does with it

Sumrall is a try hard douche. He reminds me of the high school coach nobody liked.

Did you actually watch and listen to the clip? I didn’t think so. Keep spinning things tho bro.

He did a good job at Troy too. I think he’s got a lot of potential. We’ll see if it translates to a major program. This press conference has zero to do with that.