Not hot this year unless the wheels fall off and the players quit. I believe next year is pretty much a guarantee so it can’t be considered hot. Next year it could get hot though. I still think he more than likely would get 25 even with 7-8 wins next year but it would be getting pretty sketchy.
Four years is just about guaranteed for any coach when they take a job or they would go somewhere else to begin with. Our last three coaches have really took nosedives before they could get there. All three coaches had teams quit on them. There’s nowhere to go but fired in that situation.
Nebraska is is danger of losing tgat blue blood status but they do have sellout still unlike that cesspool down south that is in a similar situation.
Maybe Rhule can turn it around but not a good start. Hard to think of Nebraska as a blue blood in football for awhile now. They are now a volleyball school.
And those guys still pack tgat stadium with rabid fans much like Virginia tech. I have to admire their fans.
We don't want to become a "has been" like Nebraska. They were a force back in the day. I don't see them returning to that level with any kind of consistency.
If they get the right coach and have the money to afford a top roster, I don’t see why not. I wouldn’t want to live there but pro sports get it done in places I wouldn’t want to live either. They have the fan support
After listening to several ” experts” these past few days I tend to agree with one statement: if Napier does not hire a good OC after this season then he has signed his own pink slip for 2024. If he really is a detail-oriented, analytical recruiter then he needs to find the best OC on the market and just be the CEO. I like Napier and I think he has the right plan, but the Gator program is just too big for anyone not named Spurrier to handle CEO, HC and OC duties. The analytics do not prove that conclusion, but history seems to support it.
O/U is set at 5.5 because of Napier. It’s his rebuild. He owns it. He isn’t allowed to tank expectations and then act like he’s meeting them He gets the exact same timeline as every other major P5 hire. Bad 2 years, need a very good 3rd year Mediocre 3 years, need a very good 4th year He can’t play the “Mullen left a bad team card” then “we are a young team card” then “my QB is just a freshman” He owns it. I’m rooting for him but we have to stop making excuses for him. It’s his team. He owns the results
We need to stop acting like Mizzou, Vandy, Kentucky, Arkansas, USC, etc are anything special. That’s no different than playing Wake. USC just got hammered by UNC Obviously the SEC is tougher, but it’s maybe 1 loss tougher for a good team. FSU is playing 2 of the top 4 SEC programs in B2B years
