{"id":880972,"date":"2026-10-13T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880972\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:46:13","slug":"jon-sumrall-says-teenage-son-sent-him-ruthless-text-before-leaving-floridas-loss-to-south-carolina-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880972\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Sumrall says teenage son sent him ruthless text before leaving Florida’s loss to South Carolina early"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There were plenty of disappointed and angry members of Gator Nation on Saturday after Florida’s surprising loss to South Carolina in Gainesville, but none may have been more distraught than a young member of Jon Sumrall’s own household.<\/p>\n

With the Florida head coach pushing the Gators to a 4-0 record to start the season, both his new team’s fanbase and the Sumrall family were in a comfortable situation. With Sumrall taking over the Gators this season after going 43-12 across four seasons at Troy and Tulane, his family hasn’t necessarily been accustomed to losing, especially in games the coach’s teams are heavily favored to win.<\/p>\n

Florida losing to what was a reeling South Carolina team in The Swamp, 38-19, was a shock to the entire college football<\/a> world, including Sumrall’s son, Sam, and the 13-year-old let his old man know exactly how he felt about the performance.<\/p>\n

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Jon Sumrall of the Florida Gators yells\/ during the game between the Florida Gators and the South Carolina Gamecocks on October 10, 2026 at Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fl. (Photo by David Rosenblum\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (David Rosenblum\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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During his weekly ‘Gator Talk<\/a>‘ show on Monday, Sumrall hilariously shared how passionate and unfiltered Sam is as a fan, and who was nowhere to be found when the coach’s family greeted him on the field after the game.<\/p>\n

“I asked my wife, I said, \u2018Where\u2019s Sam?\u2019 And she goes, \u2018Oh, he left. He could not stay and watch y\u2019all get your butt kicked.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018What? The dude left?'” Sumrall recalled.<\/p>\n

After addressing his team in the locker room, Sumrall finally took a glance at his phone, and there it was, an infamous text from his teenage son.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m so pissed off. I don\u2019t want to take a shower. I don\u2019t want to do anything other than maybe punch something,” Sumrall continued. “Finally, I grab my phone to just see, did my brother text, maybe check on Sam since he didn\u2019t stay to the end of the game.<\/p>\n

“And Sam texts me and says, \u2018Dad, I don\u2019t know if this is forgivable.\u2019 Like, I don\u2019t know if I can forgive you for this. And I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, son, you\u2019ve done a few things that I don\u2019t know if I can forgive you for either.'”<\/p>\n

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Jon Sumrall, head coach of the Florida Gators looks on before the start of a game aagainst the Campbell Fighting Camels t Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on September 12, 2026 in Gainesville, Florida. (Photo by James Gilbert\/Getty Images) (James Gilbert\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Choice words from your son after a bad loss are one thing, but the head coach also had to console his young daughter after the game, who was crying as the Florida band sent the team off the field.<\/p>\n

“My 13-year-old daughter, she comes up to me after the game. We go over to the band, and I look over and she is like in crocodile tears. She is balling,” Sumrall explained. “And I\u2019m like, sweetheart, it\u2019s OK, we lost, we\u2019re gonna bounce back. And she\u2019s like, \u2018Dad, I just hate losing for you.\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah, well, I do too.\u2019”<\/p>\n

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Jon Sumrall of the Florida Gators looks on before the game between the Florida Gators and the Florida Atlantic Owls on September 5, 2026 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fl. (Photo by David Rosenblum\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) (David Rosenblum\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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While Florida’s loss at home to the Gamecocks was a bit overshadowed by other upsets across the country in Week 6, it was certainly inexplicable.<\/p>\n

The Gators looked like worldbeaters just two weeks prior as they dominated then No. 4 Ole Miss<\/a> by a count of 52-28. While Florida followed that up with a blowout loss on the road to Missouri, most expected the Gators to get back on track at home against a 3-2 South Carolina team, but the Gamecocks jumped out to a 17-10 lead in the first half before dominating the final two quarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were plenty of disappointed and angry members of Gator Nation on Saturday after Florida’s surprising loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3342,399,398,140712,396,397,259870,1782,99],"class_list":["post-880972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-florida-gators","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-fb","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-outkick-sports","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}