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Went to see Napier speak tonight at the Polk County Gator Club in Lakeland. One of the highlights was they cleared him to land at Linder airport which this week is the busiest in the world as it's "sun n fun" week. A really good airshow week with a lot of old war planes in attendance and several shows by the blue angels. That coupled with the 22 Amazon flights per day made it interesting they let poor Billy fly in.
The takeaways were few. 1) He expects to pick up another QB after they complete spring practice either through the portal or a HS re-classification. 2) He is clearly high on Martz, his professionalism in how he goes about his work has impressed the coach and also his teammates. He said Miller is playing his best and Max Brown is showing some talent. 3) While they have 105 dressing for spring less than 85 are scholarship players, he expects some attrition after spring and also expects to pick up some more talent.
He spent more time talking about extracurricular stuff other than X's and O's, like Gatormade, GPA's, business mentorships and it's clear to me this will be a hallmark of his tenure here giving the players the full opportunity to leave college prepared for life after football. He raved about Heavenor and said the players love it so much they hang around together and bond as a team. He expects to see dividends from this culture change.
Everybodys unfavorite AD came and introduced some guy who has created another NIL group currently called FAST which has been under the radar for 9 months. Apparently a big rebrandiing name change is being announced in the coming weeks, seemed to be a weak ass ask for money. The guy said they had in the first 9 months 78 athletes providing 500 volunteer hours as their commitment. I figured that equated to a little north of 6 hours volunteer time per signed up athlete. Damn, we are off n running on NIL, pffft. Napier got a big laugh when he said to him NIL was a large pain in the ass.
Everything else I have heard on posted videos here so I didn't repeat any of that.
The takeaways were few. 1) He expects to pick up another QB after they complete spring practice either through the portal or a HS re-classification. 2) He is clearly high on Martz, his professionalism in how he goes about his work has impressed the coach and also his teammates. He said Miller is playing his best and Max Brown is showing some talent. 3) While they have 105 dressing for spring less than 85 are scholarship players, he expects some attrition after spring and also expects to pick up some more talent.
He spent more time talking about extracurricular stuff other than X's and O's, like Gatormade, GPA's, business mentorships and it's clear to me this will be a hallmark of his tenure here giving the players the full opportunity to leave college prepared for life after football. He raved about Heavenor and said the players love it so much they hang around together and bond as a team. He expects to see dividends from this culture change.
Everybodys unfavorite AD came and introduced some guy who has created another NIL group currently called FAST which has been under the radar for 9 months. Apparently a big rebrandiing name change is being announced in the coming weeks, seemed to be a weak ass ask for money. The guy said they had in the first 9 months 78 athletes providing 500 volunteer hours as their commitment. I figured that equated to a little north of 6 hours volunteer time per signed up athlete. Damn, we are off n running on NIL, pffft. Napier got a big laugh when he said to him NIL was a large pain in the ass.
Everything else I have heard on posted videos here so I didn't repeat any of that.
