Florida is finalizing a six-year deal to hire Tulane’s Jon Sumrall as its next football coach, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Sunday.
The deal is for an average of nearly $7.5 million per year, with significant incentives tied to the College Football Playoff, sources told ESPN.
Sumrall, who is 42-11 in four seasons as a head coach — two in the Sun Belt at Troy and two in the American at Tulane — has reached the conference title game in all four seasons.
He brings extensive experience in the SEC, as he played and was a graduate assistant at Kentucky and coached inside linebackers at Kentucky and linebackers at Ole Miss.
Sumrall will succeed Billy Napier, who was fired in mid-October and replaced by interim coach Billy Gonzales. The Gators finished with a 4-8 record after beating rival Florida State on Saturday.
