**The end is not near, for Billy Napier at Florida**

If there were only 6 reasons, I think he would have been fired immediately. However, since there are 7, he remains on until the end of the year.

 

So this is the “process” ?

 

Given the current leadership vacuum and corresponding behind the scenes power struggles I would not be surprised to see him here at the start of next season. 'Respectable' losses will get him through. Only way this changes would be a complete and very public team collapse.

 

Sure, finishing a "respectable" 4-8 or 5-7 will keep him around. LOL

 

He wil not survive 3 consecutive losing seasons period. His record of losing to our rivals is abysmal let alone away game losses.

 

The end of the 1st half is why Napier is 100% gone at some point before the bowl games are even selected. 1:11 to go with the ball at the UT 11 yard line and by the time the dust settles, the half is over without a FG attempt and it's 4th and California because of how dumb the "program" looked. We might be the only program among the entire FBS that can't score 1st down at the 1 yard line inside of 2 minutes going into the half.

 

Trending down: Florida's bowl odds

The Gators had their shots against Tennessee on Saturday, but after five possessions in Vols territory in the first half -- including four in the red zone -- they managed just three points. Still, Tennessee's own offensive struggles continued after last week's ugly loss to Arkansas, with sophomore Nico Iamaleava effectively offering up the QB equivalent of that sound ketchup makes when you squeeze a nearly empty bottle.

The upshot of it all: Florida scored with 29 seconds to play to send the game to overtime but missed a field goal try and ultimately fell 23-17.

Afterward, Billy Napier said it was for the best the game didn't go to additional overtime periods, because he's working the overnight shift at a convenience store and his boss docks his pay if he shows up more than 15 minutes late.

The loss is particularly problematic for the Gators, who are now 3-3 with only two remaining games against teams currently unranked. That makes getting to a bowl game an uphill battle that will require beating both Kentucky and Florida State and pulling an upset somewhere along the way against Georgia, Texas, LSU or Ole Miss.

 

There's only one reason that CBN will be around at the end of this season, and it's the same reason that he was around at the beginning of it: Stricklin isn't ever going to fire him, and CBN knows it.

 

Yep... Plus, there's no "respectable" 4-8 finish anymore. FSU is still 1-5, and was outplayed by Cal in their one win. 4-8 means UF either lost to a below average ACC team, or won the game but only after losing 6 in a row.

 

Or we're inside out 10, needing to get out of that field position, so what does he do, run run pass. We punt and the score a TD.
We're needing 7 yards for a first down, he calls a play that goes 3 yards short. We need an inch on 4th down he goes cute and calls end run, the list goes on and on and on, same mistakes over and over again for the past 3 years. This is who he is. This is his coaching DNA, hasn't learn a thing.

He is by far the worst hire at UF, he talks a big game but just can't deliver.

 

Bowl games? Bowl games? You're talking bowl games? Our coaching is so bad we can't do piddly poo. Our red zone offense is offensive and odious. Bowl games? Are you kidding me?

 

You might’ve been correct pre-NIL. Today, they must have major boosters who will support paying for talent. Those guys, from what I have heard, have almost all said they will not open the strings until he is gone. Stricklins hand will be forced.

 

Only way Stricklin fires Napier is if people pony up the buyout money. Nobody going to pony up money with Stricklin still in charge.

Stricklin goes before Napier. But there isn't currently anybody who will fire Stricklin.

 

Hope you are wrong and think you are. The athletic association needs a huge overhaul and that includes Stricklin, but BN goes first is my guess.

 

So, you are knocking people for changing their opinions/expectations based on new information?

In the end, many of those people predict the way they do because of having no faith in the coaching staff, which yet again proves to be warranted.

 

I believe your first speculation is accurate. You start missing the entire target after that, IMO.

 

Step on a Lego.