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Local Media starting to turn on Napier: Spurrier speaks
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Dan is lazy as hell, but not dumb. He is too lazy to watch game film on opponents, to do gameprep and gameplans, to recruit, or do anything else, but you can tell by the fact that most of his halftime adjustments worked that he is actually smart enough to realize what is going on out there on the field.
Billy has an IQ of a lukewarm cup of water. He would be outmatched by most middle school coaches. Totally different.
The scUM sideline is about the same as before though. Moron after moron down there.
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It’s probably what makes Mullen the most infuriating to me. Perfect example of a guy who can coach and is smart enough to win, but just doesn’t care to and is in a field where he’ll be compensated regardless. I’ve always said my biggest concern with his hiring was how he was content to stay in Starkville so long, knowing his inevitability each year. Meyer, Spurrier, even Fisch this year, knew what they had to strike because they couldn’t stand the thought of the alternative. It’s what also tells me what we have in BN. No winner would be able to stomach the past 25 games and be ok with the course. He wants to win. But is also content to lose.
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Meyer, Spurrier, Saban, etc... hate to lose far more than they like winning. Everyone likes to win.... but to hate to lose with every fiber of your being is what makes the great coaches great.
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yup, the best coaches are the ones that absolutely hate losing and lower the boom on underperformers when it happens.
we give losers contract extensions, talk about how good the team culture is, and jettison anyone whos angry enough about the losses to speak up about them harshly.
we give losers contract extensions, talk about how good the team culture is, and jettison anyone whos angry enough about the losses to speak up about them harshly.
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Even worse is when he is forced to throw the ball around a little (like 06 NC game) or perhaps with Trash (though Im convinced it was Brian calling the plays) he CAN actually put a competent offense on the field.
Then he goes back to option, option, screen pass, punt the very next game like freaking clockwork.
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I thought Mullen hung himself up on his arrogance, which was a key concern many of us had with the hire. The pitch was he’d grown out of that. At first he appeared to have, but it drove his downfall.
Confident in his coaching and scheming, he didn’t like or value recruiting nearly enough. He could/should have hired assistants who were great recruiters - hire to offset his weakness. They failed to recruit guys to replace Greenard, Zuniga & Polite, and we haven’t gotten to the QB since. When the reluctant, arrogant recruiter got a show-cause penalty, he went into his office to sulk for a year and a half until he was fired.
He had a 10-win ceiling anyway, which if he’d done that consistently could have gone on for 6-8 years or more.
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If Dooley starts saying, I told you so from the beginning about this guy, then we know it's over.
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Dooley is the last windowlicker to know.
He still thinks Butters is safe and that he knows more than gidiots. "Coach is doing great so long as the buffet is free!"
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Well there’s a couple of good things about all these young unknown coaches that we see on the sidelines…they all seem to have beards and can jump around in unison while holding up placards with catchy phrases like “Money Down” and so forth. Surely that’s some indicator of actual football coaching acumen despite the inability to make sure all the proper subs are in and that we have at least eleven on the field each snap?
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“There’s a feeling around the Gators of ‘what the heck are we doing?’ There’s a lot of questions that I don’t have the answers to about organization,” said Spurrier. “Just because you hire the most people doesn’t mean you’re going to win. All these extra people, I question how much that really helps.
“Billy [Napier] is a good guy who works his tail off. I like Billy, good family man. But we do wish the organization was a little bit more tidy.”
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