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

BN is paid $8M/year to win. There are coaches and players who always seem to pull a rabbit out of the hat. There are others who have “bad luck” year after year.

Winners make their luck. To steal from Sean Connery: Your "best"? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f@$$ the prom queen.”

We are 1-10 vs rivals under Napier - not a prom queen in site.

 

This Monday morning quarterbacking is so tiresome. If he had run and been stuffed you'd be here crying about him being predictable and coaching not to lose or some other such nonsense.

If "what Gator fans have turned into" is able to objectively evaluate situations and not be ridiculous then that's for the better.

 

That's the point. Every play executed properly has a very good chance of succeeding. The play wasn't the problem. You just cannot expect a third string walk on quarterback to execute that play under those circumstances.

 

On top of that, half the team could bail once the portal opens up.

 

This is why it hurts. We finally got the offensive line gelling into a cohesive unit. We were actually pushing Georgia's vaunted line around. We were one drive away from breaking them. We had 4 minutes and all of our timeouts (I think). You try to continue to run the ball calling good plays and you see where it leads. Throw in a high % pass play to keep the defense honest especially when they are stacking the box. We were down only a score, so 4 minutes is more than enough time especially with an extra timeout at the 2 minute mark.

 

He was bad by metrics and his throws were dangerous but he did lead us to 10 points! So props to the young man.

 

except that 3rd and 4 run to set up the botched FG. Aggressive would have been a pass for a 1st down. FGs not going to cut it.

 

Given the schedule, injuries and the amount he would be owed, 5-7 may give him another year, provided Lagway is guaranteed to return.

Then again, a loss to an atrocious F$U squad would be the final straw.

 

That can happen in any year with any coach.

 

But it’s Sunday.

 

I mean, if we wanted like the 8th or 9th best talent in the SEC but hoped to get some good QBs to make up the difference against the better teams, Mullen was clearly the better option. I thought Napier was hired for recruiting.

 

No I wouldn't because it was working all game. It's different if we had 30 yards on 25 attempts. We were averaging 5 yards a pop where passing we had 116 for the entire game, almost half of that on one pass. I agree with you had we shown all game we couldn't run the ball that not throwing would have been a bad call. But we were running the ball extremely effectively. I think gator fans have lost their mojo. We are now so used to losing, that we can't even agree on anything anymore. Just put it this way, I'm no longer Charlie Brown, no way is Lucy going to pull that ball away from me anymore.

 

We can agree on plenty of things. Just not nonsense like blaming coaches for attempting a pass play. If having "mojo" makes you believe stupid things then we'll be fine without it.

 

I don’t care about the coach. That will sort itself out. I want DJ back. DJ is a winner. Whatever it takes to keep him here. We have a program builder QB. The boosters need to focus on keeping him happy.

 

But does DJ want to be here now, or when he recovers? I would bet he's asking himself that question.

 

From ESPN:

“The Gators need to ask themselves how they ended with a walk-on quarterback playing meaningful snaps in a rivalry game. Napier has lost eight scholarship QBs earlier than expected in three years, including Jalen Kitna, Jack Miller, Max Brown and Jaden Rashada.”

 

OC's in name only. Co OC's at that. The issue has been primarily the play calling along with game management, ie, clock, timeouts, getting plays in on time, etc. BN has failed in this role and his refusal to give up play calling has been a recurring theme for three years. DJ looked as though he might have had a chance to pull BN out of the hot seat until his unfortunate injury. May he have a full and speedy recovery. Napier though, clearly has made his bed and seems ready to head off into the sunset with his playbook. I hope the Gators oblige.

 

You do know why Kitna and Rashada are not here, correct?

 

Idk. Running a jet sweep to gain 1 yard or running your game manager QB into the line rarely succeed even when executed properly.