You guys realize CBN gets credit for…….

Yeah. He did a terrific job getting the guys that Gator Victorious and alumni dropped bags on.
Good thing too because it looks like he can’t coach em up, but carry on with the accolades…

 

@GatorInBham
Napier explained he took that final timeout to keep his best 5 OL in the game for the critical 3rd down play. It was obviously the reasoning. Not sure why the espn crew didn’t even ponder that possibility at the time.
Of course, unfortunately we didn’t convert. But, it was game over if we did. I didn’t hate the call, personally. He felt like that gave us the best opportunity win.

 

We literally have a poster here who thinks Zook didn't get a fair shot.

 

He pulled a Homer Simpson.

 

It is Year Four and we have a "chance" of going 6-6.

It would be one thing if he has been doing everything right, but he hasnt.

Might even be different if he had shown some real flashes of greatness.

But no, he needs stellar play from top notch talent just to sneak out close wins.

He is not even Mark Richt level.

 

Yep. The Manning ESPN crew left a lot of things out. Many of us didn't understand because of them, myself included.

 

When did the great recruiting happen?

 

Have our coaches finally decided who our best 5 OL are?

 

We are close. Just need 3 more years and about 100 more staff positions before we sniff the playoffs.

 

I think there's valid criticism as to when he took it - we could have let more time expire. If true, the game would have ended with sack or maybe the play before it.

 

He'll always have Tallahassee.

 

Huh..please go into the time machine and produce the receipts!

 

Scared $$$$ Billy has put together a very talented team, but this team is not going to win consistently with a coach that struggles with basic game day decisions.

The clock is ticking, we can go 7--5 again and rinse and repeat and keep living this nightmare. If we go 9-3, he should get another year, but we have not started 3-0 to begin a season since 2019. That has to change. This does not mean I want BN as coach, but 9-3... No way they would can him. Do I think that is happening... Heck no!

 

You do realize that the only difference between Meyer's worst season at a D-1 school and Napier's best is the fact that Napier got Tulane for the bowl game, don't you? That, and Meyer had medical problems and a possible discipline problem within the team that he did not have before. It could have been a sense of entitlement, you know, from those national championships he kept winning.

Napier is an "awesome" recruiter? Compared to Meyer? How many five-star players did Meyer reel in for the 2007 class? Seven? When is the last time Napier did that?

Napier's offense looks a lot like another famous recruiting coach, Ron Zook. Bubble screen Zook. Start with a Heisman candidate QB known for lighting up the scoreboard (and really good receivers), and make him throw bubble screens.

You do not win championships, SEC or national, with a coach that does not understand offense on some level, or a coach who is unwilling to take risks occasionally. And certainly not with a coach who is not focused on the details of executing plays correctly. Napier has had a larger budget than any other coach in Florida history and has yet to come close to winning an SEC championship. A 5-loss season is the best he has been able to do so far.

Finally, with Napier's massive buyout, there doesn't seem to be any incentive for him to actually compete. He makes far more money if he gets fired than if he is successful, and his team's competitiveness and execution seem to reflect that.

 

Did you use AI to generate this fake info about Billy Napier being fired at Clemson? There is no way an Athletic Director would have hired him to coach an SEC team known for its offensive innovation. /s

 

Zook was Meyer compared to Billy. How long would Billy have lasted if he followed Meyer?

 

Pretty close. Of note, the bottom 3 coaches (Lieb, Cody, Wolf) all coached a period within the 1936-1949 seasons, by far the worst stretch in our history. Napier is just barely ahead of that historic low and is the only other coach under .500 this far along his tenure.

Minimum 34 games coached:

81.7% - Steve Spurrier (150 games)
81.3% - Urban Meyer (80 games)
76.4% - George E. Pyle (36 games)
69.4% - Dan Mullen (49 games)
68.6% - Ray Graves (105 games)
68.6% - Galen Hall (59 games)
64.7% - Jim McElwain (34 games)
62.2% - Ron Zook (37 games)
59.4% - Charlie Bachman (48 games)
57.3% - Doug Dickey (103 games)
57.1% - Will Muschamp (49 games)
55.6% - Charley Pell (62 games)
55.4% - Bob Woodruff (101 games)
48.8% - Billy Napier (43 games)
43.6% - Tom Lieb (47 games)
41.9% - Josh Cody (43 games)
35.9% - Raymond Wolf (39 games)

 

Lmao I did see an AI summary that talked about his firing just trying to remember what happened to him there. And I was like wow, this looks and sounds exactly like our offense here through 43 games. The man can't change, look inward, or self-evaluate to save his life. He literally thinks his offensive process and design is THE way to go to win championships.

 

no. Another of zooms problems was that he went after the best recruits available, not necessarily recruiting for need. As I recall, we were woefully thin at the front 7 at the end.

 

Just think: we fired the #4 coach (after we refused him the financial support he needed to win) to bring in the #14 coach . . . And then we gave #14 a buyout so large that we can't afford to get rid of him. Pure genius.