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Billy Napier - UF Head Football Coach
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Here's a picture of Napier at his press conference today. Dude is deadly serious and intense. Let's hope that intensity translates into victories.
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Here's a picture of Napier at his press conference today. Dude is deadly serious and intense. Let's hope that intensity translates into victories.
You can tell a lot about a man simply from a picture. Killer instinct for sure. Not the kind of guy you want to spill your drink on and think you'll get away with it.
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Well, Billy Napier was not my first choice, but relatively speaking, I am okay with the hire because he is better than any of the candidates I thought Fuchs & Co. would be willing to sign off on hiring.
Frankly speaking, due to the current political climate, I was convinced there would be an insistence by The Powers That Be that it was time for UF to hire its first minority head coach, since FSU and UM have already done it.
Mind you, as a matter of principle, of course I have no objection to hiring a minority coach. I just didn't think there were any highly qualified candidates available right now, and didn't like the idea of "settling" just to satisfy a demographic criteria. I was resigned to that being what was going to happen, though. I still have not gotten over my surprise that they hired a guy like Napier.
To be honest I am still a little concerned that Napier's extremely Southern manner might be a little off-putting to some "urban" recruits, just because it's coming from a guy without a P5 track record as a head coach. When Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney throw their rings on the table, nobody cares how they talk. In fact, they hardly need to say anything. Napier's going to have more persuading to do. We shall see if he is persuasive or not. I am keeping a totally open mind and hoping for the best.
As I said, I never really thought he'd be hired in the first place, so I only started doing a lot of reading about him yesterday. I have been encouraged by everything I've read so far. If he can find a way to get off to a good start next year, and create the impression that the Gators are the hot, up-and-coming team...
then I reckon it won't much matter how Sling Blade talks mhmm hmmm.
Frankly speaking, due to the current political climate, I was convinced there would be an insistence by The Powers That Be that it was time for UF to hire its first minority head coach, since FSU and UM have already done it.
Mind you, as a matter of principle, of course I have no objection to hiring a minority coach. I just didn't think there were any highly qualified candidates available right now, and didn't like the idea of "settling" just to satisfy a demographic criteria. I was resigned to that being what was going to happen, though. I still have not gotten over my surprise that they hired a guy like Napier.
To be honest I am still a little concerned that Napier's extremely Southern manner might be a little off-putting to some "urban" recruits, just because it's coming from a guy without a P5 track record as a head coach. When Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney throw their rings on the table, nobody cares how they talk. In fact, they hardly need to say anything. Napier's going to have more persuading to do. We shall see if he is persuasive or not. I am keeping a totally open mind and hoping for the best.
As I said, I never really thought he'd be hired in the first place, so I only started doing a lot of reading about him yesterday. I have been encouraged by everything I've read so far. If he can find a way to get off to a good start next year, and create the impression that the Gators are the hot, up-and-coming team...
then I reckon it won't much matter how Sling Blade talks mhmm hmmm.
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Perhaps this just confirms that Cousin Eddie is known as Cousin Eddie because of a lot more than the physical resemblance.
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Now that he is leaving the sticks and doesn't have to worry about head lice anymore, somebody ought to talk Billy Naps into growing that hair out a little bit. At least on the top.
High & tights are in these days. His cut is just tight & tighter. Loosen up a little, Coach! That goes for your wallet, too. Covid is over and you're getting a good salary, you no longer need to save money by shaving your own head.
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Have you seen his wife?
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He's too busy crooting and fantasizing about giving that same "He got a pretty mouth on him don't he" look to Kirby to worry about hair.
Now that he is leaving the sticks and doesn't have to worry about head lice anymore, somebody ought to talk Billy Naps into growing that hair out a little bit. At least on the top.
High & tights are in these days. His cut is just tight & tighter. Loosen up a little, Coach! That goes for your wallet, too. Covid is over and you're getting a good salary, you no longer need to save money by shaving your own head.
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I think he took Chump too literally when he said crootin's like shaving, you gotta do it every day or you look like a bum.
He meant your face, Billy, not your head!
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Well...nobody's perfect.
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Just a side note: 5 star Harvin's primary recruiter was Billy Gonzales, the only 5 star he got. A blind pig finds corn once in awhile.
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I have been called Looney by Donk and his coterie many times for complaining about this.
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