Billy Napier - UF Head Football Coach

[Born2beagator]

Contemptuous that an apparent know-nothing outsider (Machen) would have the balls to come in and call football shots. The fans wanted SOS to get a shot. Machen would have nothing of it.

Foley, meanwhile, ran errands for Machen but took as much credit for the Meyer hiring as he could.

So sounds to me like the excitement was not really that high for Meyer. Again not comparing who we get to meyer at all but it seems meyer was an "unknown quantity" who had won everywhere he went. Bowling green and utah aren't exactly high end teams

 

[Jbossgator8]

Who do you think we target as OC and DC if its Napier as HC? Any big names out there that you want?

 

[PaulDrake]

So sounds to me like the excitement was not really that high for Meyer. Again not comparing who we get to meyer at all but it seems meyer was an "unknown quantity" who had won everywhere he went. Bowling green and utah aren't exactly high end teams

I honestly can't remember the other candidates swirling around Meyer before he was hired except for Stoops, who was and apperently still is a perennial candidate. Anyone else remember who was getting mentioned with Meyer?

 

[aka]

He looks to be a solid hire, if for no other reason than we have finally moved up to an "N" coach after a sharply declining cavalcade of "M" coaches. The only thing that troubles me about him is his resemblance to Foley.

Foley looks like a Shar Pei

 

[oxrageous]

I honestly can't remember the other candidates swirling around Meyer before he was hired except for Stoops, who was and apperently still is a perennial candidate. Anyone else remember who was getting mentioned with Meyer?

Just Spurrier.

 

[YLGator]

What was the mood before urban came here? Not comparing at all. Honest question

Not even remotely comparable. We had a 3 yr blip with Zook and still were a legit CFB blue blood. Foley and Strick killed that with the three stooges.

 

[Gatorraid81]

Who do you think we target as OC and DC if its Napier as HC? Any big names out there that you want?

Someone said he may bring Tom Herman as OC.

 

[Gatorraid81]

I honestly can't remember the other candidates swirling around Meyer before he was hired except for Stoops, who was and apperently still is a perennial candidate. Anyone else remember who was getting mentioned with Meyer?

If I remember, Petrino may have been a fall back to Meyer.

 

[soflagator]

He looks to be a solid hire, if for no other reason than we have finally moved up to an "N" coach after a sharply declining cavalcade of "M" coaches. The only thing that troubles me about him is his resemblance to Foley.

Yeah, hate to rain on the parade, but I’m being told that the stickiest part of the negotiations isn’t about recruiting infrastructure at all, but rather our insistence that he change his last name to Mapier.

Apparently getting pretty intense.

 

[InstiGATOR1]

Who do you think we target as OC and DC if its Napier as HC? Any big names out there that you want?

This is part of the UF problem both in hiring good coaches and in putting together a winning staff. When you hire a head coach, you must let him hire the staff he wants. If you think you must dictate staff to him, he is not the right guy for the job.

 

[neteng]

I feel about the same about Napier and Campbell. I am with you on Mark Stoops. I can not image how an AD could run off a major part of the fan base any quicker than introducing him as the new coach.

Napier at least has potential. Campbell is a proven loser.

 

[Altitude Gator]

Just Spurrier.

Yep, Stoops got his raise, Spurrier was told to submit a resume and Meyer was the hot up and coming coach.

He was quite hot because he had been very successful at two head coaching gigs.

 

[PaulDrake]

Napier at least has potential. Campbell is a proven loser.

Proven loser at the hands of Napier....

 

[soflagator]

Proven loser at the hands of Napier....

Throw onetime favorite, Freeze, in that club as well.

 

[YLGator]

So sounds to me like the excitement was not really that high for Meyer. Again not comparing who we get to meyer at all but it seems meyer was an "unknown quantity" who had won everywhere he went. Bowling green and utah aren't exactly high end teams

Nope. Meyer was all the rage. We beat out ND for him. Nothing at all like this nobody from the backwoods

 

[Altitude Gator]

Napier at least has potential. Campbell is a proven loser.

Campbell should have jumped when he first hit some unexpected success at ISU. That was a ceiling there and his star is fading as he can't exceed that level without being better than the upper mediocre coach he is.

 

[alcoholica]

Just Spurrier.

Seems like Tedford from Cal was a big name at the time.

 

[Bullag8r]

Nope. Meyer was all the rage. We beat out ND for him. Nothing at all like this nobody from the backwoods

many, many Gator Chatter posters rejected Meyer claiming that he could not compete in the SEC. Much the same as the objections to Napier

 

[YLGator]

many, many Gator Chatter posters rejected Meyer claiming that he could not compete in the SEC. Much the same as the objections to Napier

Gatorchatter didn’t exist in 2004, but more importantly, most all gatorchatter posters are complete morons, present company included.

 

[alcoholica]

many, many Gator Chatter posters rejected Meyer claiming that he could not compete in the SEC. Much the same as the objections to Napier

If Napier can recruit the second coming of Tebow, Harvin, and Spikes, then bring it