Fair enough. What are your patient expectations for the season? Mine, which I think are fair, is 8 games again, in part because I don't know if he can do better, although it's better than 5 or 6. Finebaum said our expectations are "dumbed down" now and I agree. The impatient will say it's still only mediocre. Would you disagree?
Few would disagree. But what's the point of saying that because any SEC coach that goes 10-2 would likely be a front runner for that title.
Making a flat blanket statement about success from year one to year two is farcical. Break it down for us. What happened in year two compared to year one. What went right and what went wrong? The jump you're looking for happened from year two to year three. Why did you ignore that? Is that irrelevant somehow or a mirage? Does year four look to be worse than year three?
I quoted your post again just to highlight how great it was. Maybe my favorite post ever on GC. It was a masterpiece but I made one adjustment. I hope you approve, lol. Again:
I don’t think 8 is enough. Napier needs to have an outstanding season. His record thus far has put him behind the eight ball.
If he only wins 8 games he should be fired as soon as the season is over. Pay him what he's owed under the contract and move on. He has proven game after game he is a mediocre to bad coach. Winning 8 games, even with a tough schedule, should not be acceptable at The University of Florida.
What some UF fans seem to have forgotten is that the SEC will always be a tough schedule. The days of Spurrier playing 3D chess while the rest of the ground and pound SEC was playing checkers is sadly over. I'm not sure why fans would think that 8-5 in 2025 would suddenly morph into even better records after next season.
Coming off winning every other sec championship for a decade. We havent won shit since before my beard went gray. Different times and different expectations. Hopefully we start beating the top teams soon. Its sucked for a very long time. I can't remember the last time we beat the best team in the country.
Lucky...my girlfriend found the first grey hair in my head when I was 21 in 1983 and its all been downhill since (and I do mean downhill since the grey started on top and mostly headed S since. Oddly its mostly skipped my eyebrows )
I have to search for any brown ones now. I look like Steve Martin. Beard is totally grey too if I grow it out.
In year four, no, unless you have an 8+ win season year two and some tangible reasons that year four was going to turn out to be an anomaly, like recruiting is off the charts, etc. I'll be surprised but content if he wins 9+. The other thing would be, in Billy's case, he doesn't lose games for his players and shows he knows how to engineer some wins getting him to 8+. That would be a positive.
Year four looks better, or more promising from my POV. You seem to be saying you believe he turned the corner and has his team in place. Correct? If so, what do you expect as reasonable win/loss?
No, he did not, although the dumpster fire flames were somewhat fanned by some of the things that Napier did in his first year at the helm. Mullen abandoned ship before it hit the rocks, but Napier moved too slowly to steer it away as quickly as he should have.
