Being a head coach at the college football level certainly is not what it used to be. Between the modern transfer portal, NIL and other major reshufflings in the sport, it takes a ton of talent and a lot of luck to succeed at the highest amateur level.
It is a dog-eat-dog world out there with zero room for mercy or even empathy for the opponent. Not just for the players themselves, but again, for the coaches as well.
One of the biggest questions surrounding each school heading into the 2025 campaign is where the head coach stands among his Football Bowl Subdivision peers. The Athletic’s Chris Vannini took on the chore of arranging every head coach of the FBS into eight tiers — weighing everything from resume to resources to longevity and more – for the fourth straight year.
Where The Athletic ranks Billy Napier among its tiers
Vannini kept Napier right where he was in the previous edition — in the fifth tier entitled “up and down,” a cohort that he describes as “largely a group marked by highs and lows.”
While this assessment seems perfectly fair on the surface, Gator fans might notice that former head coach Dan Mullen is inexplicably in the third tier, entitled “high–level consistency.” Sure, he had three 10-plus win seasons against three losing seasons during his 13-year career, but his 5-6 mark before being fired by Florida in 2021 does not exactly warrant this high ranking.
Billy Napier’s coaching rankings according to other publications
Back in April, USA TODAY Sports writer Blake Toppmeyer ranked all 16 of the Southeastern Conference’s football head coaches and gave the most bearish assessment of Napier, ranking him No. 15 out of the 16 member schools. In mid-July, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd gave him a four (out of five) hot seat rating and listed him second on the “now or never” section of his…
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