Jon Sumrall makes it a point not to complain. He has bad moments, he says, but not bad days. The supposed “chaos” of college football in 2026 doesn’t bother him, because his first head coaching job arrived in 2022 so he doesn’t know any different. Likewise, the 9-game SEC schedule is new to everyone else in the league, but it will be all he knows as a head coach. Sumrall didn’t have a full-time nutritionist when he got to Troy; at Florida, he has a staff of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sumrall also has a rule, at work and at home, against complaining and whining. His young-adult football players are a lot better about following it than his adolescent children.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All that said, Sumrall calls it like he sees it, and he was dismayed at the (lack of) strength in the offensive line he inherited.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We’ve only got two guys that really started games at the University of Florida, so it’s a very new group.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is a line of scrimmage game. This is a line of scrimmage league, but I don’t care what league you’re in, you better be good on the line of scrimmage. I’ve been really pleased with the group of our offensive line this summer, in particular the weight room. That was probably my greatest disappointment when I took the job and started to watch our team work in January and February — the strength of our O-line was underwhelming to me. It was not what I felt like it needed to be,” Sumrall said Wednesday at SEC media days. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Sumrall acquired that knowledge first hand. Generally speaking, it’s not a good thing for your prospects as an SEC offensive lineman if your head coach has to add weight when follows you at the bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jon Sumrall said when he first got to Florida he would go lift with the players and he could dead lift more than half the O-line. Not good! But he said there are several guys who\u2019ve added 100+ lbs to their max this offseason.<\/p>\n