Jeff Duncan: If LSU doesn't hire Jon Sumrall, it will be playing against him soon enough

Jon Sumrall is a former linebacker, so it was no surprise that he saw the blitz coming Tuesday.

As reporters assembled for his weekly news conference, the Tulane head football coach — the hottest young coaching prospect in college football — anticipated the questions about his candidacy for several vacant major college jobs and attacked them like he was rushing the A gap.

Asked about his candidacy for the vacant LSU job, Sumrall deftly audibled to talk about Texas-San Antonio, the Green Wave’s upcoming opponent Thursday night in a nationally televised game on ESPN.

“I know you all have got a job to do to ask me that question, and I’ve got a job to do, and it’s to coach the Tulane football team,” Sumrall said, a vein pulsing in the side of his thick neck. “The coaching carousel is not ev