Odd he hired so much support staff but named himself all things offense. Most of us agree he needs a legit OC. Hope he reads the board- seriously. Perhaps his only coaching role should be at STs. His play calling lacks badly.
Here’s another one, a real ‘GameChanger’. Watch the set up on this, everyone had a role. Why can’t we ever do this??
No, we don’t have a special team coach, if we did they would at least run to the twenty five yard line or take a knee to get there. How many times did we start at the twenty five yard line. Not many. The trying to catch the line drive punt was just dumb. So no!
Haha. For everyone of course!!! Negatively for us, positively for our opponent. Not ready for prime time, and Napier needs to address it, soon.
We have a similar setup to Georgia.. Our ST guy is on the support staff. Not necessarily a bad thing, it depends on who the person is and if he is a good coach? I guess results speak for themselves.
Coaching staffs live and consume football, especially a program that has so many analysts. They don't need a message board to tell them the obvious. Love the GNFP videos but the coaches see what's wrong. It's usually a philosophical disagreement that the method is right or wrong. I'm hopeful Napier will adapt in the off-season and change things up. Time will tell.
Maybe... if a coach says that they all coach Special Teams is it the same as saying no one really has that job?
As mentioned, he is an analyst and not on-field. Putting him on-field means removing someone else. Not saying it shouldn't be done, just saying it's not as simple as adding all these other coaches that you considered needed in person on gameday. Same with OC.
As mentioned earlier, this model works elsewhere. However, in retrospect it is pretty obvious that ST aren't ready to self-regulate, so a dedicated guy seems like a miss this year. Another off-season, hard to say. But I am currently in the camp that the staff structure needs a tough reboot that would include someone that actually runs ST in person on gameday. Unless of course there is tremendous progress by next September. Which is entirely possible, but sure hard to have faith in at the moment.
I was fine with Napier bringing in coaches from previous stints at Louisiana and others, but he is not going to last long at Florida making the same mistakes as Mullen by keeping his good ol' boy network employed despite bad performance. If his dual-coach approach to offensive line had yielded a top-10 rushing offense and if Richardson had been more steady I might have been okay with Napier's approach to trading away an OC/QBC for an extra OLC. A raw talent like Richardson needed an OC/QBC that he could talk to on the sideline to get in-game corrections. He got some of that with Napier, but a head coach is way too busy to dedicate too much time to OC/QBC duties, and it shows. There needs to be a coach on the field or accessible from the booth for OC/QBC, and one of the other coaches needs to do double duty as special teams coach. Also the name "game changer" needs to go away, because that is just laughable.
That distance has actually been halved with the introduction of the rugby kicking style but your point is well taken. the change is due the fact the ball doesnt turn over and has backspin allowing the punt team to down tge ball closer to the ez
To Marshall’s credit, the sun was right in his eyes and he lost it. Should’ve waved fair catch, run full speed ahead and let the ball hit the turf.
Haven’t heard one “media boy” ask Napier why the heck we don’t have a ST coach when they haven’t done squat all year. We have a Nutrition Coach but not a ST coach?
