Welcome home, fellow Gator.

The Gator Nation's oldest and most active insider community
Join today!
  1. Gator Country Black Friday special!

    Now's a great time to join or renew and get $20 off your annual VIP subscription! LIMITED QUANTITIES -- for details click here.

SEEN ENOUGH!!!

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by doctorg8r, Sep 1, 2024.

  1. doctorg8r

    doctorg8r GC Hall of Fame

    1,441
    1,007
    1,803
    Dec 11, 2018
    I spoke up for BN this spring and summer and asked the negative posters to be patient. I felt many deserved to know the change in my thinking. I hate to see us go through another coach, but I hate more to see us tolerate a hbc who is not the guy!!! The three coaches before BN were let go and for good reason. BN thought this team was ready to play UM? That's not good enough!!!
     
    • Fistbump/Thanks! Fistbump/Thanks! x 2
    • Creative Creative x 1
  2. Matthanuf06

    Matthanuf06 GC Hall of Fame

    12,618
    596
    673
    Sep 13, 2007
    1A

    Meyer
    Kiffin

    1B

    Fisch

    Not sure if Meyer wants it and not sure our high academic ranking with limited $$ school can afford the other two

    2A

    Leipold
    Drinkwicz


    Absolutely worst case we get Chadwell. He’s far more proven than Napier ever was. He’s won at multiple schools over more years in legit no fluke ways.

    We know Napier is a dud. Any additional years is a waste. At this point hiring someone who sucks is no different than keeping Napier. It’s all upside
     
    • Informative Informative x 1
  3. Donzo

    Donzo GC Hall of Fame

    1,361
    378
    228
    May 20, 2008
    Yet, you posted in it.
     
    • Disagree Bacon! Disagree Bacon! x 1
    • Funny Funny x 1
  4. freedomgator

    freedomgator GC Hall of Fame

    2,633
    935
    2,023
    Mar 26, 2017
    [​IMG]
     
  5. freedomgator

    freedomgator GC Hall of Fame

    2,633
    935
    2,023
    Mar 26, 2017

    Why hasn't Chadwell landed a big job by now?
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
  6. gainesvillegreen44

    gainesvillegreen44 GC Legend

    672
    507
    1,908
    Nov 5, 2015
    Omnipresent
    Kiffen is 1a and you back up the brinks and give him anything he wants. You put aside any of your feelings about him. You put aside your designs on being Stanford of the south and you admit- college football is going semi pro and if you wanna play in the SEC you play big boy football and get in the mud. And if you wanna coach at Florida- you take advantage of speed, talent, athleticism and swag that is all over the south and historically this program. You get a guy that wants to hang half a hundred and play modern fn football. You push all your chips in for football and then work out the kinks on academics, money etc later after you’re bringing in billions winning titles

    But alas, those “if Applebees was a person” button downs over there aren’t doing that. They are disconnected from anything that makes a successful program. And I think Billy knew that and tried to get us closer off the field… problem is- he CANNOT coach offense. And he has low energy so he is not communicating a message that’s getting through, getting his teams fired up… he brings NOTHING to the field on Saturdays

    So the narrative will be “why can’t a coach succeed at Florida?” We will get blamed for being impatient. We will get vilified for thinking we are something we aren’t. And at this point that may be right. We just may be Kentucky now… hell, I’d take 7 wins.

    so Napier will lean on “Lagway and LJ and the future” and SS will keep him another year.
     
    • Like Like x 1
    • Funny Funny x 1
  7. Matthanuf06

    Matthanuf06 GC Hall of Fame

    12,618
    596
    673
    Sep 13, 2007
    Only the Gators hire G5 coaches with weak resumes lol

    Chadwell needed the second gig to build up the resume. He is moving on this year or next. He also has a really good gig with legit playoff potential. So he’s not going to take a mid P5 at this point
     
  8. ThomasD89

    ThomasD89 GC Hall of Fame

    1,111
    427
    1,973
    Oct 9, 2011
    How dare you!

    Ron Zook is the Special Teams Quality Control Coach at the University of Maryland.

    Which, while it probably does not pay as well as a full time janitorial position, does give him plenty of free time to enjoy winters on the Mall in DC.
     
    • Funny Funny x 1
    • Informative Informative x 1
  9. Matthanuf06

    Matthanuf06 GC Hall of Fame

    12,618
    596
    673
    Sep 13, 2007
    People do not realize how much elite football brings in in terms of $$$, reputation, and so much free advertising.

    Stanford and Cal are good examples. Does anyone give a shit about them outside of SF area and Asia? Nobody outside of current/future students gives a crap they have good academics
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
  10. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

    88,165
    26,494
    4,613
    Apr 3, 2007
    C'mon man, one crisis at a time... Can't you see we're trying to find a coach right now? Lol...
     
    • Funny Funny x 4
    • Like Like x 1
  11. BGator

    BGator Junior

    140
    14
    1,778
    Apr 30, 2007
    Yup.... A good coach could beat theirs with ours, and ours with theirs. Our players are not the problem.
     
    • Like Like x 1
    • Agree Agree x 1
    • Disagree Bacon! Disagree Bacon! x 1
  12. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

    88,165
    26,494
    4,613
    Apr 3, 2007
    The sad thing about all this is that a close game might have saved Napier this complete humiliation... now everyone is questioning everything about him... and his process too. It's a sad way to fall that far in such a short time.
     
    Last edited: Sep 1, 2024
    • Agree Agree x 3
  13. Matthanuf06

    Matthanuf06 GC Hall of Fame

    12,618
    596
    673
    Sep 13, 2007
    If we get Kiffin we either keep Lagway or get Walker Howard.

    We’d be fine regardless
     
  14. freedomgator

    freedomgator GC Hall of Fame

    2,633
    935
    2,023
    Mar 26, 2017
    Nonsense. Talent is by far the biggest piece of the puzzle to winning in CFB.
     
  15. Donzo

    Donzo GC Hall of Fame

    1,361
    378
    228
    May 20, 2008
    How much has Zook made this centry? I'm guessin' in and around $40M.

    So, I'm thinking he doesn't winter on the mall in DC.
     
  16. g8wayg8r

    g8wayg8r GC Hall of Fame

    1,251
    260
    1,848
    Apr 8, 2007
    St Charles, MO
    Does the complaining make what could shape up to be a terrible season any easier to watch? Sometimes silence is golden (no reference to or hoops coach intended). Nature will take it's course.

    Whos idea was it to schedule what could likely be a ranked team to kick off the season anyway?
     
    • Winner Winner x 2
    • Best Post Ever Best Post Ever x 1
  17. airgator96

    airgator96 GC Legend

    642
    206
    1,873
    May 16, 2007
    Jacksonville
    After the Jacksonville debacle, no parent wants their kid playing for Urban. He is done and his wife probably would leave him.

    Lane should be the target and you throw everything at him to get him. We would instantly win 8 games.
     
  18. Brodeur

    Brodeur GC Hall of Fame

    3,660
    190
    253
    Apr 24, 2007
    But at least this way there's going to be a faster, hopefully cleaner end to this. Now everyone knows this thing has an expiration date this fall and UF can start making moves for the future.
     
    • Agree Agree x 3
    • Winner Winner x 1
  19. Gatorrick22

    Gatorrick22 GC Hall of Fame

    88,165
    26,494
    4,613
    Apr 3, 2007
    It might even be sooner than you think.
     
    • Like Like x 1
    • Agree Agree x 1
    • Optimistic Optimistic x 1
  20. doctorg8r

    doctorg8r GC Hall of Fame

    1,441
    1,007
    1,803
    Dec 11, 2018
    And I totally respect that you are still on the BN train!
     
    • Fistbump/Thanks! Fistbump/Thanks! x 1