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A photographer’s cell phone started blaring a musical ring tone while Jon Sumrall spoke at SEC Media Days, and the first-year Florida coach responded with the kind of candor that has his players and his fanbase fired up about the program’s future.
“You would be kicked out of our team meeting, I swear,” Sumrall said. “Like, you’re lucky I’m not going throw this podium right now. That drives me crazy. I would (ask) who is that, but I’m not going to embarrass anybody.”
Sumrall later insisted he was joking. Regardless, it was glimpse of just how comfortable the former Troy and Tulane coach is with being himself — honest, authentic and unapologetic.
He was hardly alone at the four-day event in downtown Tampa, Florida, that kicked off the season for a football league desperate to end a three-year slump without a national championship.
Several of the league’s six new coaches — an SEC…
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