worked out ok when we hired some bum from a small school in the mountain west conference! no not that guy, the guy before that!
They getting the offensive version of Will Muschamp. Hiring a recruiter has always worked out well for Florida
I think its a good hire so long as he nails his Coordinator hires. and knowing how Napier approached Auburn, it means UF was willing to meet his administrative demands. Which shows UF is fully committed. Napier knows what the blueprint looks like and has a shit ton of southeast recruiting connections.
he’s made some impressive hires which have continuously been poached by the bigger schools You guys took his director of recruiting or something of that nature
What administrative demands did Auburn not meet to show we were committed?? We never got past his own salary demands of 6-7 million. We probably have a near top of the league staff pool and have expanded the shit out of our off the field staff. Since Gus
Love headlines like this. UF (and other big programs) isn't going to give you time to build a program anymore. This isn't Wake. 2-3 years and you better be competing for titles.
Yea I dont think you guys are going to have to worry about staff at all. Its going to be dudes willing to hit the pavement across the board if I had to guess, bc thats what he was as an assistant. Only knock on him is that you can't take to the bank that the side of the ball he comes from, Offense, will never be an issue. Success will be dependent on good playcallers and him standing out of the way, a la Dabo.
I’m guessing Auburn was more due to knowing who was in charge and who was making the decisions vs actual pay/resources. Seems like Auburn is always in flux at president and you never know if the AD actually runs anything. Florida seems like the opposite.
I can’t remember but I feel like at the time AU tried to tell him he had to retain Steele or something along those lines at the time of his courtship obviously that could have been bullshit
Worth a shot imo Florida will still be an elite job even if he fails, so you don’t have to worry about a Tennessee/Nebraska issue of damaging the brand if it goes south. Worth the reward that he’s the next big shot. Yet another Saban disciple in the SEC, getting crowded.
truth is you don’t build up at major programs, basically all the coaches that have been hits at those schools have had a very good to great teams by their second year
in our slight defense, just about every coach in the southeast ends up as at least an analyst at Bama at some point now