You guys realize CBN gets credit for…….

I'd guess about the same as he's gotten so far. Foley really wanted Muschamp to succeed, even though the issues that would get him let go were there from the beginning. That second year and its excellent record was filled with those same issues, but with the ball bouncing our way. His third season should have lost him the job, especially after our first ever loss to an FCS team, maybe the most pathetic home loss in our history. But despite our first losing season since 1979, the repeated refrain was that he had an enormous mess to clean up and the spate of injuries that year simply made success impossible. That sounds reasonably like Napier needing time to clear up the mess from Mullen and our impossibly difficult schedules shouldn't be expected to result in lots of wins. Obviously Napier's never come close to Muschamp's win total of 2012, but I think there'd be enough justification offered to keep a theoretical post-Meyer Napier for at least three seasons and, because of the late season run last year, this current fourth season as well.

 

He could have let the clock run down and then call a timeout. He would have gotten hi OL back and 25 fewer seconds would have been left.

 

Napier has done a good job with everything except he needs to fire his OC. The OC is horrible! He’s slow getting plays in, he’s predictable and becomes conservative with a lead.

 

It was a good win. I’m glad he’ll have it for his resume when he starts interviewing again this winter. I don’t want to see him destitute, and I know that $20+ million buyout isn’t going to last forever. But he’s done here. He’s wasted too much of our time mismanaging offseasons and being completely unprepared in the early parts of the season. And don’t think that will change next year or the year after. For what it’s worth, Coach Kiffin will appreciate what Napier did (which still wasn’t as much as he could have if he had also been a proper gameday coach) to load the roster.

 

21-23

 

I don't wish him ill either. Aside from all of the money he'has made so far, he'll get $12mil after taxes. If he can't live off that for the rest of his life and take care of his family, then coaching football isn't the only thing he isn't any good at.

 

My fellow aviator friend, I don’t suppose anyone has explained the tragic irony of your name to you yet, have they?

 

Great players mean nothing if you can’t perform. We had a crap year last year and are 2-3 with a loss to USF this year.

If Napier wins out he saves his job.

 

I’ve said it before, but as far as I’m concerned confidence was irretrievably lost with the South Florida debacle. You can’t have a pass for that, at home, in your fourth season, with the talent gap you have, after the inexcusable losses (Vanderbilt, Arkansas) you’ve suffered in the past. If it were me, I would fire him no matter what after the next loss to Miss St or beyond. But just for the “What if” crowd, I’ll throw out some unlikely, hard-and-fast conditions for a fifth season.

1. Can’t have a losing season.
2. Can’t lose the bowl game.
3. Can’t lose to either Miss St. or Kentucky
4. Has to beat Georgia, Tennessee, and FSU (that’s the price of humiliating this program with South Florida; take it or leave it)

Do all that. And I can’t argue with a fifth season. But I will argue with the intransigence of calling plays from the sidelines when you clearly suck at it.

 

Not sure about that. that loss to Arkansas in 2023 might have sunk him. The Hawgs were on a six-game losing streak before playing us at home.

 

You mean that they're extinct? I think the Taliban is still flying them or at least hanging their laundry on them.

 

Thanks for the list. Would you mind posting the years they coached if it isn't a problem?

 

Tom Lieb is probably rooting for no more wins the rest of the way…

 

I enjoyed many rides in the back of a 46

 

I think the writing was on the wall at that point, but no, I don't think Foley would have pulled the plug at the two thirds point of season 2.

 

They come from where they come from and they have the exact same amount of rights to be here as you do. So don’t be a jerk.

 

You mean we literally have posters here who have different opinions than you and the negative Nellie’s? Thank god.

 

Do they make a scratch and sniff for that?

 

This is all that needs to be said. There is no counter argument for this.

 

Sensitive much?


Oh and I’m an ass. It was a dumb take by OP. I’ll stand by that.