{"id":458635,"date":"2025-12-19T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458635\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:01:18","slug":"florida-head-coach-jon-sumrall-announces-death-of-his-father-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458635\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida head coach Jon Sumrall announces death of his father, George"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Sumrall<\/a> is just one day away from coaching in one of the biggest games of his life, as he leads Tulane<\/a><\/strong> into the College Football Playoff<\/a> on Saturday night. However, this morning, unfortunate news has come the way of the Sumrall family.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sumrall revealed the passing of George Sumrall<\/a>, his father, on social media. He did so with a post<\/a> honoring his father\u2019s memory following his death at home on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod gave us more time with my Dad than we thought we would get. He left this Earth last night with my Mom by his side in the house my brother Joe and I grew up in,\u201d Sumrall wrote. \u201cDad was a fighter. I learned so much from him\u2026being a man of faith, grit, hard work, attitude, service and more. Dad being there for out conference championship game two weeks ago and then the press conference in Gainesville a couple days later are memories I will never forget. He was always there for me and I know he still will be watching!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get sweeter or tougher than my Mom! Mom and Dad have set a great example for Ginny and I on marriage, parenting and commitment,\u201d wrote Sumrall. \u201cLove you always Dad!\u201d<\/p>\n

George Sumrall did get to see what has been the biggest season so far of his son\u2019s career. In his year at Tulane, Sumrall brought his career record as a head coach to 43-11 (.796) after the Green Wave went 11-2, as they won the American Championship and, with that, earned a spot in the College Football Playoff as the first of two representatives this postseason out of the Group of Five.<\/p>\n

After being one of the top candidates across college football\u2019s coaching cycle this year, Sumrall would be hired by Florida<\/a><\/strong> on November 30th and his dad was able to attend his introductory press conference on December 1st. He will then head to The Swamp to take over as the next head of the Gators at the end of the Green Wave\u2019s run in the CFP.<\/p>\n

Now, Sumrall will have to travel with a heavy heart to Oxford. Amidst all that was going on already for him on and off the field, this will be even more for him to handle as No. 11 Tulane plays No. 6 Ole Miss<\/a><\/strong> inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, which is a rematch from the regular season from a game back in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Sumrall is just one day away from coaching in one of the biggest games of his life,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,159736,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-458635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jon-sumrall","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115748489457091460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}