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Florida announced Thursday that it’s sticking with Billy Napier as its coach, a guy who’s 15-18 overall and has won eight SEC games into his third season.
Good.
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The Gators – yeah, you, the fans who demand national championships the second a coach arrives on campus – have a great coach in Napier who was dealt a bad hand, didn’t play it well early on but has this program headed in the proper direction.
And college football can change so fast.
Florida State went undefeated in the regular season a year ago only to completely collapse this season. Miami went 12-13 in coach Mario Cristobal’s first two seasons only to have the rebuild kick into high gear this season as the Hurricanes are 9-0, ranked fourth overall and clearly in the national title hunt.
I’m not making excuses for Napier. He’s paid gobs of money to win football games. He has been a disappointment up to this point.
The start of this season was ugly – and embarrassing – as Miami came in and crushed the Gators in The Swamp and then the Hurricanes went over to the recruit section and told them to come to The U.
Florida then lost to Texas A&M, lost to Tennessee and lost to Georgia to get to 4-4 with an absolutely brutal schedule to close out the regular season. This probably won’t be a late-season turnaround, feel-good story in Gainesville.
Which is why it was savvy for athletics director Scott Stricklin to release his statement Thursday as the Gators…
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Publish date : 2024-11-07 22:43:48
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