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That looks bad on the strength program saying it was like track team workouts in the offseason and Princely has caught the "if that makes sense" ending to his answers just like Napier.

Ole Miss star running back Quinshon Judkins has informed the Rebels staff that he plans to enter the transfer portal, sources tell @247sports.

This year, he became the first SEC player since Herschel Walker with 15+ touchdowns in each of his first two college seasons.
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CFB is dead. Player set records on a winning team who will challenge for a playoff spot next season.. Leaving for another bag.
Fk these kids

We're gonna see a lot of good CFB coaches going to the pros so they wont have to deal with this shite.

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That looks bad on the strength program saying it was like track team workouts in the offseason and Princely has caught the "if that makes sense" ending to his answers just like Napier.

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oreciate u Sharing this bro so don’t take the wrong way when I say Thecaw could’ve told u this 3 years ago before Hocke was hired that he sucked at strength and conditioning

Look at that flabby pussy and tell me who is he gon get into sec shape?

NO ONE!!!!

respect to u and princely for sharing this but this is old info 3-4 years after the fact

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Based on what

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he got fired from Georgia and Texas A&M after 1 season each

Found some sun belt success but as we see that means little in the sec

Yep you can't argue with their success but I think people are probably right when they said it was just Napier out recruiting those other sunbelt schools for the most part. Don't know much about the S&C coach but we looked like we had issues with that on the field or maybe the teams we lost to just recruited stronger players.

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Princely has caught the "if that makes sense" ending to his answers just like Napier.

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Thecaw is reading it now and this jumped out to me when princely said what Napier is good at as a coach

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One thing with Napier, he’ll acknowledge every player every time he sees them. Ask them what’s up or how’s their day.

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That reminds me of what I read about Stricklin being interested in hiring Napier because he saw a video of him being polite to a secretary in the hallway and holding the door open for her

That’s great that he’s a nice camp counselor but we need a savage with balls as a coach

But the uaa keeps trotting out nice guy yes men like Mike white and billy Napier and we wonder why we suck

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lmao. No fkn difference

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Princely say otherwise

“ there are differences between how you train by what conference you are in. So like, whenever we trained in the offseason under Savage, we were working out to be as strong as we could be. You’re going against 300-pounders trying to run the ball down your throat. You better be rocked up. The SEC is ‘bully’ football if that makes sense. You better be able to go heads up with that or you’re going to get bullied. With them [the new staff] coming from Louisana Lafayette, I’m not trying to put anyone down, I don’t know, it felt like we were training to be in the Pac12 instead of the SEC. ”

I already said Billy wasnt my first choice, but be logical about the complaining. ffs

He has no control over the money in recruiting, and apparently cant shape the staff how he wants due to buyouts.
Coaches run in packs, they stick to ppl they know. You rarely gonna see a guy hire someone he has no ties to or someone he knows didnt vouch for. Its literally all about who you know

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You think Saban walks into the admin bldg and starts slappin bitches?

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As a matter of fact, yes, I do.

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I already said Billy wasnt my first choice, but be logical about the complaining. ffs

He has no control over the money in recruiting, and apparently cant shape the staff how he wants due to buyouts.
Coaches run in packs, they stick to ppl they know. You rarely gonna see a guy hire someone he has no ties to or someone he knows didnt vouch for. Its literally all about who you know

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I do agree with this, I was kind of luke warm and cautiously optimistic about Napier as a hire (I personally was on the Lane Train, felt like someone who could inject "energy" and excitement into the fan base...felt like Lane had more ability to do that than Napier).

Didn't hate the Napier hire either, and expected the first year or two to look rough considering how Mullen spun out and stopped recruiting.

Napier has made a lot of mistakes, and I personally think the job is too big for him. However, I also think he's getting blamed for a lot of things that aren't really his fault or out of his control (things you mentioned).

Ultimately, it might not be "fair" but as the head guy, he'll bear the brunt of the results that he produces. There are definitely things that he's done, which have really led me to think that it would be beneficial for both parties to move on, that are the result of the decisions he made (a lot of the special teams gaffes, player management during the games, etc.).

Primarily, I think he made a major mistake being the OC/playcaller while trying to adapt to the SEC as a HC. I am not a huge fan of his offense, but I don't hate it either. It can be effective, and the run game is pretty strong and fun to watch at times. Pearsall was a nice addition, and Wilson has potential. If we could get an o-line to give Mertz/Lagway time to hit deeper routes, it would be nice to see a vertical passing threat develop. But our o-line as is doesn't permit that.

That said, I don't think Napier's play calling, nor the amount of time he's spending on being the OC, is really good enough to detract from the time he's spending, before and during, the game focusing on his big picture duties as the HC.

I'd love Marion, or even Korn, but at this point I'd be cool with Calloway getting full time playcalling/OC duties (granted that he's actually being given those duties and isn't being used by Napier to pretend like he's delegating while still micromanaging the offense behind the scenes).

I truly believe Napier could at least have the chance at being a halfway decent HC if he delegated play calling and focused on HC tasks. But if he doesn't, it'll be more of the same, and maybe even regression.