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Kevin Sumlin makes one thing clear on Johnny Manziel. It might surprise his UFL players

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Now coaching in the UFL, Kevin Sumlin shared a few thoughts on coaching Johnny Manziel.

HOUSTON – Kevin Sumlin wears a black Houston Gamblers hoodie and a ballcap on a quiet afternoon inside the lobby of a hotel off I-610. Just 90 miles from here, Sumlin once coached Texas A&M to a No. 5 national ranking during a season in which he beat Nick Saban.

Not that he expects the players on his United Football League team to remember that. Led by a redshirt freshman quarterback turned Heisman Trophy winner who’d become known as Johnny Football, a player as talented as he was rebellious, Sumlin’s Texas A&M Aggies toppled mighty Alabama in the Aggies’ first season in the SEC. Nowadays, Sumlin coaches a team filled with players in their mid-20s who harbor NFL aspirations.

Do those players know their coach once beat Saban , in a game played in front of 101,821 fans at Bryant-Denny Stadium? “No,” Sumlin responds. “No.

No. No. No.

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