{"id":106743,"date":"2025-12-31T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/106743\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:23:20","slug":"former-arizona-wildcats-football-coach-kevin-sumlin-to-lead-ufls-houston-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/106743\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Arizona Wildcats football coach Kevin Sumlin to lead UFL\u2019s Houston Gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kevin Sumlin is a gambling man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The former Arizona Wildcats football coach has been named the head coach of the UFL\u2019s Houston Gamblers. This is Sumlin\u2019s second stint leading the Gamblers after coaching the team in 2022 to a 3-7 record when the Gamblers were part of the USFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sumlin built his coaching reputation in Houston, where he led the University of Houston Cougars from 2008-2011. Sumlin led Houston to a pair of double-digit win seasons before leaving to take the Texas A&amp;M job in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sumlin was fired from Texas A&amp;M in November 2017. Two months later Arizona hired him as its next coach, replacing Rich Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sumlin went 9-20 in three seasons at Arizona. He\u2019ll be remembered most for the 2020 season when the Wildcats went 0-6 and lost to ASU 70-7 in the Territorial Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sumlin most recently served for two seasons as Maryland\u2019s associate head coach\/co-offensive coordinator. While at Maryland, Sumlin was arrested in October 2023 for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Sumlin stepped away from the program in early 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The UFL season gets underway in late March and runs through early June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Sumlin is a gambling man. The former Arizona Wildcats football coach has been named the head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4938,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-106743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-arizona-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}