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ESPN insider Peter Thamel was on the College GameDay Podcast this week and discussed Billy Napier's job status at Florida.

The Gators sit at 4-3 overall and have a tough final stretch to end the season with games against Georgia, Texas, Ole Miss, and LSU. The season finale will come against Florida State in Tallahassee.

Thamel said a key factor in Napier's situation is his $26 million buyout and what that looks like with a potential $20 million budget of revenue sharing coming. Per On3:
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“I am a believer that there is a collectively, reasonably talented roster at Florida. Now, look, that final stretch is that final stretch. There’s no other way to say it. It was a five-game final stretch. The game in Tallahassee doesn’t look as intimidating now…there’s a path for Billy Napier. I believe the buyout number is something like $26 million. So, that is not insignificant.”

“One other macro point here is that all these schools making decisions, whether it’s SEC, AAC, Conference USA, it’s ‘I have to pay X as a buyout number and I also have to figure out how to pay, in the SEC, a $20 million budget of revenue sharing.’ There’s just not an unlimited pool of money for these schools and finding a line item for $20 extra million is — again, the money is there and nobody is playing the violin, but it’s still like $20 more million,” Thamel said.

“Florida is gonna figure out the money and it’s going to be fine. There is sort of a thought exercise of, ‘Okay, do we take $26 million and spend it on good players as opposed to spending it on dead weight coaches,’ because you’ve got some assistants on that staff. Sometimes staff buyouts are an additional $10 million. Florida, the way the contracts are written…it’s not a total poison pill on the staff. End of the day, these are still millions of dollars, they’re just not conjured with the snap of a finger.”
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luciouslou15 days
That's schedule has been brutal. If
They played some other teams in the SEC on the rotation that could easily be a 9 win team.
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UFMatt15 days
Anything short of a 6-6 record and a resounding win against FSU should be grounds for firing, not so much for wins and loses but for lack of improvement from year one to year 3. The $26 million is small change compared to the cost for keeping Napier.
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