When Jon Sumrall was hired at Florida this offseason, one of his first big moved was bringing Brad White to Gainesville with him. White and Sumrall both coached under Mark Stoops at Kentucky, with White being the Cats’ defensive coordinator up until Stoops’ leave.
Sumrall, though, wasted no time in telling reporters that his defense at Florida would look nothing like the one that Kentucky ran.
As the BBN knows, the Cats would often sit back in static zones that allowed quarterbacks to pick them apart unless the front four got home right from the rip. And because Kentucky was often at a talent disadvantage along the line, that happened quite often. Peek at these stats from the last three Tennessee matchups as proof…