Billy Napier - UF Head Football Coach

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At this point, I just want to get it over with, and hope we get lucky. Seriously. We need some luck. God stopped smiling on the Gators more than a decade ago, and we’re due a break. And No matter who we hire… there’s literally no way in hell he will be worse than Dan Dipsh!t Mullen.

And because this new coach will be replacing a total fraud, he’s got years of hard work to do. This will not be an easy rebuild. Our brand has been tarnished. Badly. For that reason, he’ll have my full support, until he proves to me it’s undeserved. Hopefully that day never comes.
 

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what makes him seem that way? bullshtt propaganda from his agent? Same shtt was said about Chimp and McSharkie.

You are what your record says you are.

I agree. Which is why I don't see him as either of those guys. Napier is 38-12. McElwain was 22-15, and of course WM was 0-0 but had never shown the capability to do the job.
 

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I agree. Which is why I don't see him as either of those guys. Napier is 38-12. McElwain was 22-15, and of course WM was 0-0 but had never shown the capability to do the job.
What is his offense ranked? Think that will get better in the SEC?
What is his defense ranked?
What is his recruiting class ranked?
 

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Agree for the most part. Trouble is that most everybody nowadays pay big $$$ for potential and big $$$ to part company if/when it doesn’t work out. Shttiy business model that makes millionaires out of hacks and hucksters sometimes. It’s about time for us to draw a four instead of holding on seventeen.
Damn inflation even creeping into coaching sector.
 

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What is his offense ranked? Think that will get better in the SEC?
What is his defense ranked?
What is his recruiting class ranked?

You're acting as if I have no reservations about him, which is not the case at all. I have not looked up the answers to the first questions, and the last one is irrelevant because he'd be selling a different product, but will also be facing stiffer competition(nope, she was with me all night). I know he's leading his conference for the fourth year in a row and has worked the SE, which gives me confidence. But as I said a few days ago, every single option at this point has flaws. I see no realistic P5 coaches that I'd want. So I'll ask again, someone like Brian Johnson. Are you more inclined to give him the reigns for a first time than giving a rising star that has at least proven he can handle the HC responsibilities? Maybe you are, and maybe we should. But the fact remains, there will be a roll of the dice with whoever is named.
 

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I see no realistic P5 coaches that I'd want.
Successful P5 coaches, except maybe Riley, aren't available. P5 coaches that are available are available because they suck.

We need to get past just looking at coaching records and just hiring the person with the best-ish G5 record and hiring people that have the right stuff and right fit for UF.

It doesn't matter. We are going to do the same shtt again it appears, with the same fuchsing idiots on the committee that makes these decisions.

I don't think any of them ARE Gators and they clearly have no idea what Gator football looks like.
 

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Successful P5 coaches, except maybe Riley, aren't available.

We need to get past just looking at coaching records and just hiring the person with the best-ish G5 record and hiring people that have the right stuff and right fit for UF.

It doesn't matter. We are going to do the same shtt again it appears, with the same fuchsing idiots on the committee that makes these decisions.

Totally agree. I just don't see it as so definitive that BN doesn't have the right stuff and isn't a right fit here. Nothing is going to be perfect. But I see him fitting in much better than a ton of other options. I'm sure there may be someone out there that maybe fits that bill better, but are probably coordinators at this moment, which carries it's own risk. You and I, and everyone here, fit UF perfectly. But we wouldn't be cut out to be HC(maybe Running or Pug, maybe). I think you have to strike a balance. We may be greatly disappointed in the end. But there are reasons to believe he may be great here, especially if it involved bringing us into the modern era in terms of budgeting and focus.
 

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I just don't see it as so definitive that BN doesn't have the right stuff .
Option ball conservative clock killing.

This isn't Gator football. And wasn't Clemson football either. Well, it was Clemson football when they sucked but it isn't now.

Im sure we may beat Kintucky and USCe again, rise back to second in the east, but Mullenzville is his ceiling unless he does something radical like give up playcalling and hire an aggressive OC. It just isn't in his DNA though it appears.

especially if it involved bringing us into the modern era in terms of budgeting and focus.
This is his upside. At least when he fails, hopefully we will have more staff and leave a better product in terms of talent on the field for the next coach.
 

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I'm not sure if this article has been posted yet, it's from Napier's first season at ULL and talks about how he set up his program, and ULL's commitment to give him what he wanted. This is about how he set up his recruiting staff & analysts:

The Ragin’ Cajuns don’t have the monetary luxuries of the Crimson Tide. Turner, the director of Louisiana’s on-campus recruiting who worked in Saban’s recruiting department as an Alabama student, says UL’s current 10–12 person recruiting staff is one-third the size of Alabama’s. “It’s a well-oiled machine,” Turner says. “It didn’t start off that way in 2007. They’ve built it up and transformed it. I was there. They mastered it. Everyone and everything, they had it down to a science. We have those secrets, we’re trying to implement them.”

The offensive and defensive analysts in Lafayette aren’t exact mirrors of those in Tuscaloosa, either. They may not be recently fired SEC head coaches like Butch Jones, whom Saban hired this offseason, and they might be paid $1,200 a month instead of $80,000 a year, but “we’re doing the same stuff,” Sale says. “They’re all doing it. Kirby [Smart], Jimbo [Fisher], [Jeremy] Pruitt—they’ve done everything Coach Saban’s done.”

Inspired by dad and Saban, Napier begins at Louisiana
 

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I'm not sure if this article has been posted yet, it's from Napier's first season at ULL and talks about how he set up his program, and ULL's commitment to give him what he wanted. This is about how he set up his recruiting staff & analysts:

The Ragin’ Cajuns don’t have the monetary luxuries of the Crimson Tide. Turner, the director of Louisiana’s on-campus recruiting who worked in Saban’s recruiting department as an Alabama student, says UL’s current 10–12 person recruiting staff is one-third the size of Alabama’s. “It’s a well-oiled machine,” Turner says. “It didn’t start off that way in 2007. They’ve built it up and transformed it. I was there. They mastered it. Everyone and everything, they had it down to a science. We have those secrets, we’re trying to implement them.”

The offensive and defensive analysts in Lafayette aren’t exact mirrors of those in Tuscaloosa, either. They may not be recently fired SEC head coaches like Butch Jones, whom Saban hired this offseason, and they might be paid $1,200 a month instead of $80,000 a year, but “we’re doing the same stuff,” Sale says. “They’re all doing it. Kirby [Smart], Jimbo [Fisher], [Jeremy] Pruitt—they’ve done everything Coach Saban’s done.”

Inspired by dad and Saban, Napier begins at Louisiana
We have a recruiting staff of four.

FOUR.

We have one GA, and I think one QA for each side of the ball. I think we hired an ST QA not sure if he is still around.
 
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