![Florida Head Coach Jon Sumrall speaks during Florida Football Fall camp availability at Heavener Football Training Center in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. [Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun]](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_crop,x_844,y_33,w_3622,h_2037/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/images/ReutersImages/mmsport/215/01kzak727rz6nrpy2f76.jpg "Florida Head Coach Jon Sumrall speaks during Florida Football Fall camp availability at Heavener Football Training Center in Gainesville, FL on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. [Alan Youngblood/Gainesville Sun]")
Football is finally here, with many fall camps starting this week.
Now you would think after six months without it, people would get that itch out of their system. The chatter would start slowing down, and it would go back to the grind of football. Although we all can agree, when there’s a little bit of jawing going on, bragging rights are always a good notch to have.
Here is what happened today in the SEC, which involved a lot of coaches talking their trash via the media.
Dan Mullen takes a swipe but forgets his past
UNLV head coach Dan Mullen decided yesterday was the day to take a shot at his former employer. He couldn’t have his cake and eat it too after extremely smart people had UNLV making the College Football Playoff.
Why yesterday of all days? Because Florida’s new head coach, Jon Sumrall, is still haunted by what his wife said about his pedicures. Dan would go on the Paul Finebaum show and say:
“And I think maybe if the Playoff era was around, I think three out of my four years, we would have made the College Football Playoff. Maybe that would have looked a little bit different back then with the resume, of keeping me around a little bit longer to try to try to go win that national title. But hey, it is what it is. Probably hasn’t gone as well there since I left, it doesn’t seem like.”
The only problem with what Mullen said is that he had a terrible record versus top-25 teams and an even worse record against the top 10. He wouldn’t have won anything anyway. At least he isn’t as haunted as Jon Sumrall is after this war with Dan Orlovsky.
Jon Sumrall continues spat with Dan Orlovsky
Sumrall can’t seem to catch a break just as fast as he creates his own problems. Some would say he has learned to put his ego aside, but comments like these show just how much of a bullet Auburn dodged in hiring him. Sumrall would go on to say:
“Some guys got a little patch of hair, what is that doing? Just cut it. Don’t try to keep it”
We all know who that was for, ever since Sumrall’s wife had done the interview saying, “Jon loves pedicures."
Orlovsky has been picking at Sumrall every chance he got. Now, after some silence, Sumrall opens fire and pulls that, reaggravating the entire thing. Meanwhile, you have Kirby Smart actually having a meaningful conversation on the other side of the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party rivalry.
Kirby Smart is standing his ground on strength of schedule
Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti just won the national championship, but Smart doesn’t like that the Hoosiers have weak schedules. It’s not hard to love Kirby; he loves competition, and he does this important thing called winning. On the other side is Cignetti, who is also drinking that same winning Kool-Aid. But one doesn’t respect the other's way of getting to that illustrious CFP.
"Historically, I've been a part of some really good SEC Championships, National Championship programs, and the common denominator of those programs is you play really good teams, year in and year out, in and out of conference," Smart said.
Kirby isn’t wrong at all, and Cignetti’s magical 2025 campaign has to be replicated again before everyone just immediately dubs him the next Nick Saban.
I hope coaches aren’t really chasing that; just ultimately be yourself and win your game. You can’t be someone else.
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