Jon Sumrall Reveals BLUEPRINT to building the Gators like Georgia

He talked a little bit about recruiting, which I loved, and he also talked a lot about Georgia's roster and who they are and how they're built, and spoke very highly of Georgia, which we've heard that a lot. That doesn't really surprise me, but a couple things that he said that piqued my interest. Number one, he talked about how his schedule last week, and I don't know if it was every Tuesday, Wednesday, or just last Tuesday, Wednesday, but how he... Off-season, yeah. Sorry? Off-week, the bye week. Okay, just the off-week, how he spent that Tuesday, Wednesday, which was looking at it at 2027, but I think he's kind of speaks. That's what he does throughout the week, throughout the years. Like these two days, what I do, you know, consistently is I'm looking ahead into the future. I get with, I basically sit down with the GM and, you know, he didn't say this. I'm using my own words here, but the money people of how we want to attack the off season, how we want to attack the portal, how we want to attack recruiting. And then he even said, look, I was, you know, planes, trains and, and, and, uh, cars on Friday, Thursday or Friday, Saturday, recruiting kids, which I loved hearing like I mean it was refreshing to hear like hey it was it was a bye week for the football team but for me it was you know that five year plan what do we do to look forward that was just a small little tidbit that I was like man it was cool to hear usually we're so into football in the middle of the season but it is important we do and it's for me the recruiting stuff is kind of like second fiddle at this point I know they're doing that I'm aware of it because we had Corey Bender on like I'm seeing the articles being written and the momentum that's happening and I heard about these guys visiting Hudson West and Frederick Arch, who's a 2027 edge with Bam Harmon We had that conversation with Corey Bender, so that doesn't surprise me, but hearing him talk about again, I know it's their job, but hearing him discuss sitting down with the GM, talking about the future, where things are. The other thing that I found very intriguing is when breaking down the Georgia roster, kind of gave us an insight to the blueprint, which counters what we talked about with Corey Bender a little bit. And he said, look, when you look at Georgia's roster here I spent the entire bye-week studying this roster and here's what I love about this when I first got this started the show the way that I look at it goes who's at the best at what I want to do yeah and I go and study I go watch I go see what I like I take what I like I leave the rest what is this guy doing like a lot of people compare like always make fun of Pat McAfee light I don't necessarily watch to emulate him genuinely I know it may appear that way because we're both little gingers and you know crackheads I understand that but I don't I don't necessarily take my how I want to be after him I will try to emulate Colin Cowherd what I went and looked at Pat McAfee for was where did he start because everyone looks at where they're at now but they started somewhere so i actually flipped his youtube and went back to the beginning and it was very inspiring because he just started with his boys in his studio and it looked like ass and i was like if the guy that's on espn started basically the same way that i'm starting then anything is possible and people ask me hey like you it's not don't let this intimidate you because this is a long way from where you're starting but you got to start somewhere and it's okay to start wherever you think is going to be so little soapbox box there but it's important to study where you want to go and he talked about like this this guy's been doing it for 11 years and when you look at their roster they're good in all these areas and you can see and this is huge right we don't have this scent yet or this listen go ahead i'm gonna let you feel this good boy you know i know you know what it is right like that that scent of winning and you can see it in a lot of players regardless of in a year or two you see it carry over from from class to class that culture that he talks about but he talked about and when you look at the kid that is at georgia you go where'd they come from their high school was next to their name not the previous college he goes look at ours half of it has high school but half of it has their previous college which is fine because i don't want to be that heavily in the portal i want to have it to where and he said that before that part didn't surprise me but we had bender on and this isn't to say that Bender is wrong or that may still be the game plan for this first go around but ideally the goal is to get to a heavy recruiting class where you're only taking 10-6 dudes in the transfer portal but you and I have talked it feels like this particular portal class I think is going to be different but maybe not maybe they want to amplify a few more 20-27 dudes but he talks about winning now I just don't know if you're there to win now by taking a light portal class So still a lot of unknown to see how they attack this portal based on those comments. Yeah, I think a second offseason with some guys that stay is enough to get you going in the right direction. Building the culture that you need here. We have the coaches. We got the fire energy. We need some guys that are going to be staple for him that are going to stay around and say, hey, I want to get developed. Can you not say and promise me, but can you are you going to be able to develop me if I don't leave? Can I go to the NFL? We still have to keep that the main picture. Yeah, you're making money now, but saying you played in the NFL is a whole other thing. And I think Georgia has been able to do that. But when you're talking about a guy, the biggest thing, 11 years, brother, at a program is unheard of in today's world. Yeah. And so, of course, your imprint and blueprint is everywhere around that program. Like, everyone there knows what you've had class after class after class after class that stuck around for you. you graduated with two groups of seniors down to three. If you, if you know what I mean we make it to 12. So, I mean, that, that's a, that's a, that's a big deal. And, uh, it is unheard of. And I don't Florida first. I, we, we ain't got the patience I already know. We, we don't have the patience to do that, but if you win now, you win, you got to win now. And maybe those things can happen, but I don't know if any coach in Florida gets to 11 years. And that's it. I hope we do, brother, but I don't know if 11 years is possible at Florida with just the way we are. You usually want to come in here and talk about PricePicks. We talk about putting together a fancy lineup, and we love putting together our lineups. But this one hits home. As someone who loved collecting cards and as a hobby when I was younger, now you can do it on your phone with the new PricePicks picks feature. So click on the picks app here, and then it shows you a pack of cards. You get to rip one card anywhere. 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The last class we had were the guys that were already committed to Coach Napier, and they just stayed along. And so he hasn't even had his first full class of guys that have the mentality that he wants here. And so I think that's going to do a lot for us. But Georgia, 11 years, brother, that's a long time. Well, I think what might change that a little bit, and he spoke to it a little bit about the playoff expansion, because the expectation, I think, will change a little bit. Yeah, for sure. It'll reset people's mindsets a little bit. Like, I think eventually it's going to be similar to March Madness. Like, you can't, like, for Florida, like, you can't go round one and get bounced three years in a row. Like, that is a failure. Yeah, no, never. So my point is, like, but at first it's like, hey, just get to the dance. All right, cool. You get to the dance. You get to round two. Like, you find ways. The expectation is higher and higher and higher. And so for where Florida's at, it's like, look, we just got to, we just want to sniff it. So you can get two or three years of sniffing it. Well, all of a sudden you're year four. now you've got a three-year span where you've got to win a couple of rounds and i'm not obviously i want more than that but my point to the long tenure, I think you're going to be able to yeah i think turn look i think Beamer hell he's on year seven or eight at south carolina he was kind of like wobbling there you know black eye but that's crazy now think about what he just did he may have just extended himself four more years that's crazy yeah right like he was on the way But it's also the wildness of, like, of ups and downs. Like you said, Florida fans, if Napier has two off years. Unless you're Florida State, then you just hold on to what you got. Yeah, I think he's great. I think you build around Norvell. You know what I mean? I think that's a guy. You what? You build around Norvell. Like, that's a guy you go all in on. I don't want my coach jogging with me to practice every morning, bro. I want him already there. I love it. But, look, it's exciting because we've talked. I mean, myself, I always say blueprint. It's a word that I use a lot. when describing recruiting and how you want to attack it, we've seen bits and pieces of it, we don't have the full foundation just yet and I don't know, it's always going to be evolving, right with how I think money gets passed around, how portal rules will change but what is going to be the consensus, right, like are we going to attack trenches heavy go heavily there and develop in other areas, portal, these specific spots, is it going to, is it going to banter, I don't know, right we're still learning it, I think we, the one key thing is that they want to recruit heavily in trenches, which is part of that Georgia blueprint, look, I for me the best combo would be a a sniff of Miami with a little bit of touch of Georgia and then your own flavored sauce of Florida, right like that is, I think, if you could build your own blueprint through that, uh, because of where your location is, I think you can, you know, get away with a few things, I think, I don't think Indiana can do that, I don't think Indiana can, can ride off of like a Georgia blueprint where they can recruit heavily based on location historics all those things, they, they have to take a different route, right, so Florida, based on their location, can, can get a little more creative, I think, of how they attack it, so it's cool to hear him kind of foreshadow that a bit, we haven't really heard about it in quite some time because it's been all football which I've loved, yeah, and we're going to start upping up into the pay, not saying to throw money at anybody it's for the retaining the roster guys that are going to stay on the roster you got to start compensating some of those guys to remain here not saying they got to be some astronomical number they got to believe in the vision of what we're building but to get to that upper echelon we got to start gotta start shelling out a little more money to keep guys around no i agree i think that the investment all around has to amplify as well i think like you have to i'm all for being smart and being healthy but i i think that you probably gotta you you need to be up another five to six million like i'd be in a different world than we are now go ahead yeah and i think with as far as recruiting with what we're doing i believe offensive line is essential right i think you can find some fringe players on the defensive line that maybe are not five stars but can come in and produce you look at stevie bentley this man was just playing in high school a couple months ago he'll be playing in high school again this year But now he's out there playing the big time games, contributing, not saying he's making a ton of plays, but because he's out there, it lets you know what he can bring to the table. And he's only a freshman. So I think we're trying to mix and match, but we have to secure the offensive line. And I think that's the first major step they're taking in the trenches. And it's up for Coach Chapman because he's probably taking the backseat to some of the money that's coming in because they're saying, oh, well, we know you can develop these guys. we can take some smaller guys and you'll get them up to speed faster than than some of these other guys where we just gonna throw money at these guys no he does need some money and that's been a big hang up with why he's not able to land some of these other guys but he's developing guys uh along the way as well but if you if you're starting if you're starting here and other guys are starting here with the guys they're bringing in yeah chapman may bring them up to here but they still only it's still only here right yeah and so but if you're going to start somewhere you need to start on offensive line if you don't score any points we ain't winning no games this day in college football like it's offense uh the game has favored the offense over time now so we need to win in the offensive trenches we'll build in the defensive trenches for sure as well but we gotta gotta have you gotta keep the money Thank you.