Billy Napier to Florida

Should’ve just kept that nerd Mullen

 

Mullen deserved to be fired. Napier deserves to be fired. Both things can be true.

 

He only had one bad season

Probably good for 8+ wins most seasons with Mullen. Careful what you wish for kinda thing

 

eh I went back and looked, he wasn’t as good as I had remembered

 

he wasn’t great but he was miles better than Billy or Muschamp

 

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The problem is the seasons got worse and worse and the trendline was continuing to go down. Great playcaller, imaginative coach, horrific recruiter, lazy CEO. He needed to go. Sadly (for us), Billy sucks at some of the same things.

 

I just feel like if you’re going to fire Mullen, you don’t do it for a coach at ULL. Hindsight 20/20 and whatnot. Keep Mullen until a sure thing is interested

 

I feel like the only thing Billy is better at than Mullen is recruiting but now they have to dump him and make a splash hire to keep the talent he brought in

 

I mean, Billy was a good hire at the time. He was 40-12 at UL and had already reportedly turned down Auburn and South Carolina. He’s just not the guy we thought he was.

 

Go back and look at that 2020 season which is probably his most heralded. Just straight up incompetence on defense. Losses to every good team we played save Georgia. Our o-line coach for those years works at Lowe’s now. Like I’m serious, the hardware store. Stumbled into playing Kyle Trask only due to injury when everyone knew he was the better QB. First coach to lose to Kentucky since I’ve been alive. Didn’t want to recruit at all and fluffed his classes with non-qualifiers. Also got the first recruiting violations in school history for a recruit we didn’t even get.

 

Hindsight is definitely 20/20, but Dan was angling for an NFL gig hard. When he didn’t get it after 2020, he essentially gave up.

 

But somehow Billy has been worst. Fuck us.

 

Gonna feel bad for you guys when BOB makes BC respectable again and he’s brought up in a coaching search

 

Refresh my memory a bit - who else, if anyone, was seriously considered for the job besides Billy?

 

It’s already happened on our home boards.

 

Rumor is that both Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley expressed interest but our dumbass AD supposedly zeroed in on Billy from the jump. Who knows though.

 

I’d take Brian Kelly for 20 years before Billy doing whatever he’s doing. That sucks

 

Nobody realistically. Some liked Lane but was never going to be hired at that time. We were told Brian Kelly had interest and reached out. Don’t think we could’ve beaten LSU out though.

 

I definitely buy the Kelly interest. Not so much Lincoln because there were always rumors he was vehemently against the OU to SEC move.

 

it’s true Lincoln didn’t want anything to do with the SEC and that’s the only reason he left OU in the first place. OU would’ve paid him as much as USC did

 

Lmao oh god if gator fans and boosters somehow push their AD to hire BOB

 

In hindsight yeah. At the time Kelly’s teams and recruiting did not seem to be championship level. Was a great move for all parties.

 

From what I remember, Mullen wanted out. He hates recruting and wanted a shot in the NFL. That call never came so he basically trolled UF into firing him. As for hiring Napier, UF hasn't been able to snag the sure thing splash hire in a few cycles. None of their last 3 hires were their #1 choice. I don't see that changing in round 4 with the turmoil at AD and president

Spoiler

Here comes Boo to tell me that UF turned down Lincoln Riley in favor of Napier.

Edit: he beat me too it again.

 

I’d retire my fandom on the spot.

 

Someone else suggested Jimbo Fisher…

 

Napier was unfortunately the number one choice.

 

He’s the big bald dummy in the middle.

 

Let’s all just drink flavorade at the same time.

 

You’re a weird guy, ace.

 

Seems like your fans want to revert course from hiring up and coming guys like Muschamp and Billy to settle for BOB and Jimbo. Reading UF boards during the coaching search will be fun

 

It’s a mixed bag. Plenty want Glenn Schumann.

 

Our fans are depressed and reaching for any branch of competence. No matter how dumb and it is dumb it would be.

 

That's the same of every fanbase though in all sports. Ex. Team has a hard nosed disciplinarian coach that fails, well it's obviously because he was to hard on the team and out of touch so the next coach needs to be player friendly. Player friendly coach fails, well obviously the team had a country club atmosphere with no accountability. Time to get a disciplinarian to whip the players into shape.

 

That’s my pick. Assuming he’s learned something from Kirby. In hindsight Lanning should have been the pick but the previous Saban rejects scarred the donors.

 

I think this is still the way to go. Pulling standing P4 coaches is going to get a lot tougher with the expanded CFP. Especially from the SEC/B1G.

 

Billy is none of those things.

 

Just pay urban whatever he wants to come back and name the field after him at this point

 

Plenty Florida fans want that too.

 

This would be such an unmitigated disaster

 

I think the thing is there’s no point anymore pulling G5 coaches for jobs like UF. G5 coaches rather be P4 coordinators these days anyways.

 

But think about that recruiting class though.

 

But yes that would crash and burn spectacularly

 

they’d win games for a few years until it blows up again

 

That’s better than not winning games for a few years and it blowing up again.

 

The other name floated a lot, mainly because he’s a Gator alum, is Jedd Fisch.

 

that’s Dan Mullen with less success