Article: Napier two years in

Statistics say in 2018 NCAAF kickers made 76% of kicks from 39 yards and 62% from 44 yards. So while he didn't kick it he was directly responsible for making it 20% less accurate. Regardless of that arguing that the leader of an organization isn't ultimately responsible for the performance of every member isn't a take I'd expect from an adult.

 

He has a lot stacked against him and to this point hasn't shown much.

I think even the best coach would struggle to have success at UF with the new SEC landscape and the UAA's mind numbing dysfunction with NIL.

He's going to get another year or two to prove me wrong and I hope he does. I just
don't see how he digs his way out.

 

So we have no full time offensive coordinator, no real special teams coach and a brand new 29 year old defensive coordinator..I’m shocked we have all three facets of the game not performing well…just shocked.

 

Yes this amazes me. If you're going to be your own offensive coordinator (bad idea to do two jobs but whatever) you need to hire the best possible people for the other leadership positions. You simply don't have time to effectively mentor a new guy because you're already doing two jobs.

I work in IT but if I was interviewing an IT director and he told me he plans to also serve as the networking team manager and hire a brand new security manager with no management experience it would be a very short interview. No matter how good you may be trying to do two jobs simply results in two jobs being done less effectively, let alone adding in training a new leadership person.

 

I wish people would stop calling this a "rebuild." But I understand some people here think they'll be able to confuse some HS recruits into thinking that's what it is.

 

You use the portal to its maximum potential. And are then THE Coach to actually rebuild the program, and win with those guys. Maybe not year one, but year 2 definitely.

 

Since we can’t say we’re UF how about FSU did it. Only yanking your chain but seriously it shouldn’t take 3 years to have a winning season no matter what at Florida. We’d actually be going on four straight losing seasons if we don’t pull IT together next season.

 

That is easy. He cheats.

UF will not abide cheating. Our admin will fire anyone caught cheating. Ole Miss revels in it!

 

Actually, Galen Hall won big before he was fired. Spurrier inherited quite a bit of talent and the SEC was mainly a ground and pound league when Spurs came to save us.

When the SEC caught up with us, Spurs started getting the boos like everyone else and did not like them. So he left for the NFL.

Later he tried to come back to UF but Foley would not let him. Or at least he did not greet Spurs like Spurs wanted to be greeted so he went to USCe.

That is the short version of what I remember.

 

The only good thing about a third year with Napier? His buyout is a tad smaller

 

Example? I would love to believe that anyone more successful than us in the evolving system is cheating. I could sleep way better at night. It’s far more comfortable than, say, we have a staff that is painfully slow to adapt and/or learn from its mistakes. But what is an example of Kiffin cheating at Ole Miss that I can use to feel better when I see him outperforming Napier in all aspects of the game?

 

Kiffin (possibly) cheats. He is also a better coach than Napier.

 

Cheating how? If you are talking about paying players before NIL, you can bet our hands are not clean either.

 

I think you need a refresher course.

 

I think Napier's time at Lafayette is very telling.

By 2020, he had the clear advantage in talent, yet, he was locked into many one score games.

The easy explanation is his philosophy is to get a lead and defend it, which never bodes well for championship ball.

The more complicated explanation might get me booted from GC, suffice it to say anytime Napier gets more complex in his play calling, things don't work well.

 

Don't know if it was Dan Quinn or Muschamp to credit but our defenses were awesome when healthy. This list is just season ending injuries that year, it doesn't include weekly injuries.

The reason those guys looked like they just started playing tackle football was because their lineup was decimated. Think of what happens to depth when you already have that many starters and backups out at the college level. At least in the NFL you put in a pro for a pro. In college, you are forced to play kids too early and out of position.

Really wish Champ had just turned over the offense and gotten out of the way because he was a young and well liked coach who could have been our long timer instead of doing the coaching carousel every few years.

 

Champ has admitted he made a mistake.

Tebow gave "the promise".

Both took ownership.

Now days, we blame ST guffaws on players not calling in the kicking teams.

 

Agreed. But it was Georgia Southern, who didn't have a single player on their entire roster that was even recruited by UF. We should have been able to win that game with our 2nd or 3rd team.

 

Eh, normally I'd agree but option offenses can give even seasoned defenses a tough time for a quarter or two let alone that mash unit we had to assemble. Just my take