From Lane Kiffin to Jon Sumrall: Florida Gators Coaching Search DEEP DIVE with Danny Wuerffel
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And all right, here we are on this episode at Gators Breakdown with Gator Great Danny Worfell, Heisman, trophy winner, National Championship quarterback, statue right outside the swamp. Joining us right here on Gators Breakdown, Danny died. You shouted out me Monday evening as we were walking down at the press conference, and I was like, I don't, who's that voice? And I was like, it's Danny freaking Whirful calling my name so |
| 0:21.6 | 13 year old me right now cannot believe this by by the way oh man well it's good to be with you |
| 0:27.6 | I've I've learned a lot in the last I guess six weeks or so and I'm sure we'll talk a lot about it |
| 0:32.9 | but I've gotten to know and listen to a lot of different people covering the gators. |
| 0:38.3 | And I just want to one give you a shout out. |
| 0:42.3 | Every time I've heard you talk about anything, and there's been a lot of things to talk about |
| 0:46.3 | recently and a lot of things that get people riled up. |
| 0:49.3 | I've just always felt that you covered things in a fair way, in a kind way. You didn't shy away from stuff, but you also just did things in a way that I really respect it. So one, good job. And secondly, when I talked to a couple of people, I'm like, you know, I think there's a lot of misinformation out there. I love to kind of share the story of how I experience this coaching search. |
| 1:12.4 | And who should I talk to? |
| 1:27.8 | And like, right out the gate, people like, oh, you need to talk to Dave. Talk to this guy, Dave. He's a good guy. You'll like him. Go for it. So you come highly recommended, my friend. I'm glad to be here with you. It means a lot. It means a lot coming from number seven right there. So certainly glad we could we can hook up here. |
| 1:32.9 | By the way, I knew, first of all, Gator fan growing up, of course, watching Danny. |
| 1:39.1 | And then I knew you were an even bigger deal when you had one of these made. |
| 1:44.3 | Oh, I was a big starting lineup fan growing up. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay. |
| 1:46.6 | Too many of them. |
| 1:48.4 | And then they didn't really make college ones, but then they had this little Hysman edition that they came out with, |
| 1:51.0 | and there was the one of one Danny Wharfell there. |
| 1:54.1 | So in mid-end, |
| 1:55.4 | unopened, mid-conditioned, all good stuff there. |
| 2:00.4 | All right, Danny, of course know we're getting together on the |
| 2:02.8 | hills john somerall getting hired as head coach for the gators and as you mentioned just so much that |
| 2:08.5 | went on basically since the time billy napier got fired and of course really heated up the last |
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