re: Better late than never...

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so he just fell arse backwards up the coaching ranks ehh?

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He's incredibly personable and commands a room extremely well, which combined with his close personal friendship to several coaching legends (including being best friends with Bob Stoops) is very powerful. Stoops personally met with the UH AD the year they hired Sumlin and was incredibly influential in that hire. After that, his career basically took off thanks to two all-time great college QBs he didnt recruit. He's been a HC for 8 seasons, 4 with Keenum/Manziel and 4 without. His offenses and teams in general drop off the face of the earth in the 4 without.