Talking trash about the head coach on a hot mic. What a punk. Billy is more accommodating to these leeches than any head coach ever, and this is how they treat him. Needs to be done with UF and we should pressure them to get rid of him in Jax as well. Needs to be fired. People like him are why no one trusts the press.
I didn't hear anything more egregious than I read on this message board almost daily. He can have his opinion and I can have hope that he is wrong.
I want to wait and see where we are as a football program (after signing day) before I grade Napier, and that guy in the press should do that too. He got his answer and he should just move on.
His opinion should stick on an op/ed page, then. We don't need any credential from UF to post here, so we can say whatever we want here, within forum guidelines. Tell the AP they are welcome to send someone to UF press conferences, just not this clown.
I’m not sure where these guys get their cockiness from. Funny how saying he’ll be here longer than Billy may be the reason he’s not. Cue up Alanis’s Ironic.
I would like to see a transcript, but if the worse he said was "he guarantees he'll be there longer than Napier" in a private conversation caught on a hot mike then this is much ado about nothing. Most of these sportwriters have columns and they aren't usually shy about publicly stating their opinions.
Hoping that the media marches lockstep has been what UAA has done for 20 years and it’s how we’ve gotten into this mess of the writers/radio guys protecting coaches. I’m glad the guy has his own opinions. I have zero problem with this. I disagree with him. But we should NEVER want somebody to lose their job and definitely not march in lockstep with the coaches. We need writers to call out stuff. I want dissent. Healthy dissent. Nothing you wouldn’t see on this board. Move along. Nothing to see here
I didn't listen too carefully, but I caught: "I don't give a f###, I'll be here longer than Billy Napier. I promise you that."
This is what is wrong with the country. You can never get the press to put their real opinions out in their articles. Whatever they are saying in public isn't nearly what they really think. They are scum and 90% of them are smug butt wipes.
The one thing that I heard that was inexcusable IMO is Long said that he guranteed that he would be here longer than Napier. SOunds like a real jackass slimeball.