Billy Napier is a team builder

The same comparison applies to all first year coaches, and only 2 are Saban and Smart.

We don't know how the future will unfold at this point - too many variables.

I am FAR more optimistic about BN than the previous coaches because he can recruit. So, if we can close this class strong...I think the future is extremely bright.

I will keep my short-term analysis to that one point (recruiting), or my brain is going to explode.

 

It’s all true stuff. The issue is losing to Vandy and some fans don’t understand your gonna have games like this in a rebuild.

 

Another way to build a team is to win. Winning solves everything. You can be a "team builder" and all but if you can't coach winning football it will eventually put cracks in team building. Let's see what BN can do in the next couple of years. He gets a pass this year due to the mess DM left. We all knew it was probably going to be a bumpy year.
But what we did want to see beyond wins and losses this year was is the team improving. Is he developing players and making them better. Can his schemes beat superior talent? Has he hired the right coaches?

There is no question BN has been handed golden keys. New building. Ability to hire zillions of support staff. Basically he can have what he wants. But that comes with a price tag, how soon will he help make this team a competitor with bama, uga, lsu and ut that ends with division championship and beyond.

Right now the first chapter has mixed reviews.

I know i'v been critical a lot, but I hope BN makes it. I'm rooting for him to succeed even though some stuff is not good and some a real head scratcher.

 

We are ? We must ? Vandy ?

 

Excuses excuses. We are supposed to win now. Spurrier said a couple weeks ago that Napier has never said basically “wait until next year” because obviously, that is for losers.
Can’t believe how many are defending the indefensible: losing to a horrible Vandy team with tons of Gator fans driving to Nashville to watch that putrid performance.

 

You are playing the Tennessee and Auburn level of arrogance. I guess the only reason Vandy is in the league is to 1) raise the academic IQ to less-than-bad levels and 2) be the Washington Generals. If they are just this, why did they get rid of Mason? He was cruising the dorms for fresh meat?

 

Who is defending?

 

Vandy was statistically among the worst teams in the nation.

 

Chicken salad is not Billy’s specialty.

 

Re-builds and changing culture is rarely linear. There are ups/downs throughout the journey. Utah was definitely an up and Vandy was definitely a down. I am thankful that he has a plan for the long term and I while I don’t like the downs I can appreciate the journey we are in. Go Gators!

 

Gee! Thank you sir!! What a pretentious post.

He has character but “ you are what your record says you are” Bill Parcells. Right now we are SEC losers and with no Asst Coach upgrades, don’t see that changing.
We need to whip FSU bad or else we will have lost to every rival on our schedule.

 

[QUOTE=" Smart lost to Vandy and Ga Tech his first season and almost lost to Nicholls State.

No one was as aggravated as I was for losing to crappy ass Vandy yesterday, but we hired Billy to rebuild the program the right way and even though I disagree with the play calling, I really don't think the play calling matters when you don't have the players playing together. This is the most important thing and it is going to take some time.

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CBN is no CKS..he needds to prove that. He can rebuild whatever he wants but its th decision making on Saturdays that is troubling...that doesnt usually get better.

 

I’m sure sometime around 2019 they were saying similar things about WilliE Taggart in Tallahassee

 

And one of the worst run defenses in the nation. Why didn't try and figure out the right run plays? We spread the receivers out wide on one set play and ran Johnson who got like 30 yards, that was until it was called back for a boneheaded personal foul on our center. Why didn't try that again?

Running from the bunch set did not work.