Napier gets 7 year $51.8M contract

[Zambo]

Fify

ULL threw more yesterday. But that QB is so errant throwing the ball he made Jeff Dipshtt and Giraffe blush. Numbers would have looked better and maybe thrown more with more competent receivers and QB.

Not sure we have the talent now but you never know how good X and Fraziars could be with semicompetent coaching. Im not sad to see Shorter and Copeland moving on, and hopefully us moving on from the big slow Wide Blocker/TE bybrid types.

However if the Napp studies Saban he should notice that Saban Offense 2.0 (passing) just destroyed Saban Offense (running Dwagball) 1.0 yesterday in the SECG. The answer for what our offense should look like is obvious.

This is the first hire I havent hated since 2005.

Is it too much to ask that we could actually be good at running AND throwing? Seems to this caveman that the best way to attack a defense is by making them defend everything, then hit 'em where they are weak.

 

[Ancient Reptile]

The 7 year total is okay, but would have preferred that it start lower (at about 5 million) and ramp up faster to reach the 7 year total. Also, hope the buyout goes both wsys.

 

[oxrageous]

Look at you with your list, you gonna put a special "letter" or "star" by our avatars too? So people remember mein fuhrer.

You know I wasn't but that is one hell of an idea.

I have to go work on this.

 

[fischerwood]

And change that stupid avatar. It’s annoying.

That's racist...but I agree...

 

[oxrageous]

Fify

ULL threw more yesterday. But that QB is so errant throwing the ball he made Jeff Dipshtt and Giraffe blush. Numbers would have looked better and maybe thrown more with more competent receivers and QB.

Not sure we have the talent now but you never know how good X and Fraziars could be with semicompetent coaching. Im not sad to see Shorter and Copeland moving on, and hopefully us moving on from the big slow Wide Blocker/TE bybrid types.

However if the Napp studies Saban he should notice that Saban Offense 2.0 (passing) just destroyed Saban Offense (running Dwagball) 1.0 yesterday in the SECG. The answer for what our offense should look like is obvious.

This is the first hire I havent hated since 2005.

I'm proud of you sir. Excuse me, I have something in my eye....

 

[G. Gordon Gator]

7 years is too long. We might figure out by year 4 that his conservative play calling and running clock just to get through games isn't going to work here. Probably won't take 4 years to figure that out.

Second comment is the right response to the first comment. If it's low buyout number, who cares? If it's a high one and Napier sh*ts the bed, which I highly doubt, it would impact the budget available for the next coach.

But whatever, it's a gamble. No reward without risk. I support this bet. I'm still shocked they made it, and hired a "traditional" type of SEC coach instead of trying to please the "change" advocates.

 

[Mr2Bits]

Im gonna miss the 90s khakis

 

[G. Gordon Gator]

You know I wasn't but that is one hell of an idea.

I have to go work on this.

Maybe something that wraps around their avatar. You know, like an armband!

 

[G. Gordon Gator]

No reward without risk. I support this bet.

Scared money don't make money! "Everybody got me??"

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Is it too much to ask that we could actually be good at running AND throwing? Seems to this caveman that the best way to attack a defense is by making them defend everything, then hit 'em where they are weak.

Old school thinkers: you have to batter them between the tackles and when they drop the safeties only then can you pass.

It is just stupid **** like "defense wins championships" that gets passed down from neanderthal to neanderthal. Ever seen a team win a game 0-0?

 

[Swamp Donkey]

The 7 year total is okay, but would have preferred that it start lower (at about 5 million) and ramp up faster to reach the 7 year total. Also, hope the buyout goes both wsys.

Id like to start at 3 mil, give a mil for beating Ugly, a mil for beating clowns, a mil for SECG appearance, 2 mil for championship etc. Do the same for the coaching staff. They need skin in the game.

The buyouts should be a year or two of whatever they earned the last year or last two years.

 

[soflagator]

Im gonna miss the 90s khakis

And people say no one reads this board. They may as well have @‘d me.

 

[soflagator]

It’s a massive contract, but it’s the standard now. Like an entitlement, there’s no going back once it’s out there. And I also agree with whoever said if we lowballed it would warrant its own criticism here. The idea of not caring went out the window when we fired Mullen when many thought that was a preposterous notion. Whether or not Stricklin executed things correctly is yet to be determined. But everything about the firings and hiring says we’re at least trying to be great, even if only by force of the boosters.

Bottom line, we just need to win.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

And people say no one reads this board. They may as well have @‘d me.

Give us the sartorial breakdown, swami.

 

[soflagator]

Give us the sartorial breakdown, swami.

I have an actually even seen the picture yet. I’ll take a look later. Hopefully he ditched the Nickelback look we saw from a few years ago.

 

[Ironhead]

Scared money don't make money! "Everybody got me??"

If that was Napier...and I assume it was, Damn, I LOVED THAT!!!

 

[ThreatMatrix]

We got a coach ten times better than the last one at a smaller price. Sounds like a home run to me.

If it will trigger you further, I'll go another step and say I'm THRILLED with this contract.

The Napier haters have been well established by now:

ThreatMatrix
NVGator
GBHOR
Thought Criminal
Brooks
Swamp Donkey (1/2 the time - he's bipolar)

 

[Gator By Marriage]

Look at you with your list, you gonna put a special "letter" or "star" by our avatars too?

@oxrageous if this is what you’re planning and you’re looking for ideas, may I suggest a pink triangle?

 

[itsgr82bag8r]