Florida football scored just 15 points combined in losses to Georgia and Oklahoma. This squad cannot exacerbate that problem with self-destructive tendencies. The Gators cost themselves early in Saturday night’s road game versus No. 11 Kentucky after getting hit with a couple of flags. Jon Sumrall was blunt when touching on the issue after the first quarter.
“It takes no talent to not have penalties and just do simple things really well,” the first-year Florida head coach told ESPN’s Kris Budden.
It remains to be seen how players will respond to that straightforward statement. The program was making exceptional progress in during the infancy of the Sumrall era, claiming noteworthy wins against Ole Miss and Texas, but they have also lost four games by a combined 83 points since the calendar flipped to October…