Jon Sumrall after Gators Lose to Gamecocks: 'We Have a Long Way to Go, Clearly'

All right. Disappointing football today by us. No excuse for it. Not many words are going to make any of it right. We have to go back to work and improve. I'm frustrated with every part of what we did today. It starts with me. I've got to do a better job. Get this team ready to play to its best. And today today's not anywhere near where we need to perform. So so many things to clean up. Just not a good football performance by us. So tied up. Yeah, I felt like when the game was in balance, I thought we stopped the run at times decently. You know, this is the seventh best rushing offense in college football. And you look at, you know, the final stats, 37 carries for 114. When the game was in balance, we were on defense fitting the run fairly well and limiting maybe leaky yardage in the run game. We wore down a little bit really in all phases, but defensively, I think late in the game, you felt like they were finishing forward on more runs. You know, the disappointing part is when we have maybe them bottled up in the backfield a couple times, and they get out of it. You're in position to make a play, and we just don't get guys down. That's really frustrating. You know, in the throw game, they hit some explosive pass plays today. It wasn't on just one guy. It was certain guys in different situations, and we've got to win 50-50 balls down the field and be in competitive position to make plays on those balls. But there's no magic to fixing it. We have to go back to work. We have to strain play in, play out. You know, the thing I told the team just now, and I've told them really all year, on defense, you have to assume you're the challenged player every play. And you have to assume that the ball, you're the target every play. And we have a long way to go, clearly.