Napier Starts Dec 5 - What do you want to see first?

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Needs to make quality hires. Simple as that. Belk for DC, Lupoi, and possibly snagging Rob Sale from the Giants would go a long way for me to think he is going to assemble a monster on the trail.

I'd also like him to hire a good OC but that's TBD; going to need to open it up more on offense here. Is it a product of what type of players you have at UL or do you really want to sit on the ball.
 

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What did Spurrier ever do that was anti-Christian? My Bible says nothing about tweaking opposing football coaches.

LOL! "Biblical" tweeking is a thought that never crossed my mental desk before but I imagine you can't find "tweeking" as we understand the concept very much in the New Testament anyway unless you include JC and the money lenders.....Perhaps Napier can do that on Media Day to Smart just to get the jucies flowing....
 

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Obviously it's not "sexy" for the fans, but I think his DC choice is more important than his OC choice. We have to rebuild this shattered defense to compete in the SEC.
 

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At his presser:
1) Announce the recruiting staff and budget will be tripled starting now.
2) Announce the name or the hunt for a Recruiting Guru and NIL Expert
3) List the # of "top recruits" coming out of Florida over the past 10 years and where they went. Set a goal (%) that UF will get going forward . Explain how.
4) A 3-5 bullet slide showing the plan/vision for each: Offense, Defense,Special teams, S&C,
 

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Obviously it's not "sexy" for the fans, but I think his DC choice is more important than his OC choice. We have to rebuild this shattered defense to compete in the SEC.
I think you're right, the DC is more important at this current stage, however his OC choice is going to tell us a lot on his willingness to adapt. Is he going to be stubborn on offense and try to force a certain style, or is he going to have an adaptable offense based on the best players available.
We'll learn a lot more about this guy once his assistant hires shake out.
Regardless, I can't imagine it could be any worse than the last guy....but this is the 3rd time in a row we are here saying that again :lol:
 

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Obviously it's not "sexy" for the fans, but I think his DC choice is more important than his OC choice. We have to rebuild this shattered defense to compete in the SEC.

David Waters was a guest on another show and noted Belk doesn’t recruit well but does coach up the players he gets on the field. If Napier selects him they’re gonna have to surround him with good recruiters at the DL, DB, and LB position coach slots, and of course a better recruiting infrastructure and staff beyond coaches but I’m sure this has been laid out otherwise the dude would not have come here.

Napier locked in our QB recruit Evers and now he needs to reel some other decommits back and keep AR15 in the fold.
 

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At his presser:
1) Announce the recruiting staff and budget will be tripled starting now.
2) Announce the name or the hunt for a Recruiting Guru and NIL Expert
3) List the # of "top recruits" coming out of Florida over the past 10 years and where they went. Set a goal (%) that UF will get going forward . Explain how.
4) A 3-5 bullet slide showing the plan/vision for each: Offense, Defense,Special teams, S&C,
None of this is going to happen at an introductory presser. Sober up.
 

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Ok.

Then he should announce his favorite brand of taters and say "I'm a Gator".
When at any intro press conference have you ever seen a coach go into a slide show? It's just an introductory, for God's sake.

You're already insufferable and he's not even in the state yet.
 

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Recruit, Recruit, Recruit
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Open-Up a few PRACTICES
Yes on recruiting- obvious. A top kicker and returner? Which practices do you want him to open first? solid OC/DC YES!!!

It would be a great sign if he could salvage this class somewhat. Not expecting miracles, but if he could get us in the top 20 to 15ish , and add some nice pieces through the transfer portal, that would be awesome. I also want to see him fill out his coaching staff with some good recruiters and solid Coordinators. The candidates that have been floated around so far seem promise
If he and they can add two more promising OL, another promising DL and whatever they can beyond that I will not complain.

From reports we gather that Mullen's leftovers are actually out recruiting, in force and with intention. They must realize they can no longer ride Mullen's saggy tits to the bank so they are all auditioning. From a recruiting standpoint, should any of his staff be retained? From a player development standpoint should any of his staff be retained? Should any of the back office recruiting staff be retained?
 

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When at any intro press conference have you ever seen a coach go into a slide show? It's just an introductory, for God's sake.

You're already insufferable and he's not even in the state yet.
He can use a white board. It doesn't have to be a literal powerpoint.

But you're right ... fans are hairy palmed knuckledraggers that just want coach speak.

All I'm saying, for me (and I'm sure plenty of other fans) , I'm fed up with living on "hope". These yahoo's get paid millions ... how about Mr. Organized shows us what he has planned for behind the curtain? With quantifiable benchmarks for REBUILDING THE PROGRAM.

If it's done right ... the AD and New Coach will be given lots of leeway. Most fans want a PLAN. That plan isn't about Xs and Os.

Strategy vs Tactics.
 

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Let's fix this asap.

@MDiabate11: And if you’re frustrated just imagine how we players feel for a second, didn’t expect this coming here.
 

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Let's fix this asap.

@MDiabate11: And if you’re frustrated just imagine how we players feel for a second, didn’t expect this coming here.


Jesus… just another example of how Dan had no clue of what he was doing. This is some rural high school road game sh!t.
 

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Let's fix this asap.

@MDiabate11: And if you’re frustrated just imagine how we players feel for a second, didn’t expect this coming here.


This is why Savage has to go. Sure, he's not cooking the food but he works w/ the nutrition staff to ensure they're making proper growth. If he was a more experienced S&C coach he would have raised hell about this.

On what Diabate said, if you watched any of the videos put out by the UAA (and by the players themselves, like Princely's videos) it shows the players walking through a buffet style food line putting food in to-go containers. It looked very amateurish, but I chalked it up to covid. Obviously the players didn't like it too much seeing this tweet.
 

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Hopefully he throws Lafayette and the entire state he just fled completely under the bus as the biggest cesspool in the universe.

Then I’d know he has his head screwed on straight
My mom lives in Lafayette.
 

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What did Spurrier ever do that was anti-Christian? My Bible says nothing about tweaking opposing football coaches.
SOS was Old Testament (an eye for an eye), He was quoted that Weurffel was New Testament (Turn the other cheek). I'll take the Old Testament thank you very much!!...:jog:
 

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At his presser:
1) Announce the recruiting staff and budget will be tripled starting now.
2) Announce the name or the hunt for a Recruiting Guru and NIL Expert
3) List the # of "top recruits" coming out of Florida over the past 10 years and where they went. Set a goal (%) that UF will get going forward . Explain how.
4) A 3-5 bullet slide showing the plan/vision for each: Offense, Defense,Special teams, S&C,
Fix nutrition and other student athlete support structure. The head coaches should not being paid these millions with these missing athlete support infrastructure.
 

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He can use a white board. It doesn't have to be a literal powerpoint.

But you're right ... fans are hairy palmed knuckledraggers that just want coach speak.

All I'm saying, for me (and I'm sure plenty of other fans) , I'm fed up with living on "hope". These yahoo's get paid millions ... how about Mr. Organized shows us what he has planned for behind the curtain? With quantifiable benchmarks for REBUILDING THE PROGRAM.

If it's done right ... the AD and New Coach will be given lots of leeway. Most fans want a PLAN. That plan isn't about Xs and Os.

Strategy vs Tactics.
I agree he should have a plan, but he's not going over it with charts and graphs at his opening press conference. It will be mostly coachspeak like every other opening presser in the history of college football.
 

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Start repairing things that are broke.
1-recruiting
2-hire coaches that can coach and recruit
3-embrace gator nation get the fans excited he's our coach
4-hit the portal shore up our roster as best he can
 

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