I know everyone has been waiting with bated breath for me to reply. I’m one of those lurkers. I was invited over here by Layla.
Sometimes I don’t know if I should just storm into a thread throwing haymakers and bombs or not.
My 2 cents:
More than likely, Napier won’t succeed. In my lifetime (50+ years), we’ve had a relatively good coach (Graves), 2 great coaches (Spurrier and Meyer), and a bunch of average to bad coaches. Pell is questionable- he got us in trouble, but he did lay the foundation for the run the Gators started in the 80’s.
We Gator fans bitched about Zook when he was Spurrier’s DC (we chanted “give Zook the hook”). We hated Mullen and Adazio when Meyer was there.
We Gator fans are always mostly negative. We have a few pumpers to try to look on the bright side (obviously, that’s how Mr 2 Bits came about - he wasn’t even originally a Gator, he just wanted to get the fans to stop booing).
Worst case scenario with Napier is he doesn’t work out and we move on to the next one. At least we won’t be tied down to a 10 year contract. I think he will at least build up the infrastructure, and he has the UAA opening up the checkbook for what is needed.
Whatever he does, I’ll be there cheering and potentially booing him every step of the way.