UF needs to give Napier more time

Just bc you gave your coach an $80M buyout and can never fire him, do take it out on us.

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Billy Napier didn’t become a shitty coach overnight, he just has shitty players

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The DC from UM said…we studied 7 most used plays from the 2023 season j and SunBelt used 5 of them in the first 5 plays of their game-

My issue isn’t the lack of talent, it’s SunBelts ability on game day

I would like to meet the lawyer who came up with buyout clauses and punch him in the face. And the fact that AD's keep agreeing to them is just sheer stupidity.

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Billy Napier didn’t become a shitty coach overnight

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True. He arrived as one. He's a salesman that won at a lower level.

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he just has shitty players

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Not really. On one of the Gator youtube shows last night they went through the transfers and pretty much all of them are now excelling and having very good seasons at other schools.
Also, I think UF is around the Top 10 in composite talent right now. You can't call them elite but you can't say they just lack talent, either. If UF lacked talent, other schools would not have scooped up their transfers like they did.

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Why not use this alleged $28 million raised by donors to buy out Napiers contract for a massive NIL donation.

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Because nowhere is coaching more important than in college. A great coach can make average players into an elite team and an average coach won't win anything even with elite talent. That NIL money would be wasted - see above and the discussion of transfers that are doing well at other schools. This may be the saddest part in all of this - this massive infusion of money and support for the Napier tenure has been totally wasted.

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Guarantee you’ll start to see some positive results.

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No we wouldn't. As I pointed out in another thread, the guy that loafed around on a play in the Miami game got no discipline, no accountability at all. Napier actually made him a team captain the next week. There are other stories with Napier bringing down the energy of the team in the locker room and all sorts of stuff. It's very obvious that he can't make players better, can't develop a program etc. No accountability. Nice guy and players like him. He's too soft. Players don't respect that. Their play shows. Sure players like it when you're nice to them. They like it a lot more when they leave campus with some hardware.

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The days of firing coach after coach while paying their massive buyouts and expecting better results is laughable in this era.

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It's working for Ole Miss. Working for Mizzou. Working for Tennessee. Working for Texas. The buyouts need to end, for sure. You should not get rewarded for failure. But the lesson here, IMO, is that you need the right coach and that coach has to have adequate resources in order to produce an elite team. Most important is the coach. It's about work and effort and execution. The money never guarantees that. And you need smart leadership. UF isn't getting any of these things. Great players with no discipline or poor development will always get beat when it matters most. Coaching is most critical. If UF were to keep Napier, people should end NIL contributions entirely because he will waste every dollar.
People realize this. Andy Staples said he called someone about how they raise money with Napier and these performances - guy said, "we don't."

Napier sold UF some wolf tickets.
Get me a giant staff - check.
Pay me money - check.
Build state of the art facilities - check.
Boost NIL - check.
Fan support - check.
He's received more support and assistance than any coach in UF's history. Imagine what Meyer or Spurrier (or Muschamp or Zook) would have done with $100M dumped into the program in short order. Napier has wasted every bit of it. He doesn't do anything to establish rapport with fans or media. He says he's going to do X and he doesn't do it. He promised a "process" and there is no process. All these analysts and he trots out there with complete predictability. It's fraud. House of cards. Lies.

Napier is now saying he takes full responsibility. If that was true he would resign. He won't do that. The buyout destroys the incentive to resign or even care about the results on the field.

Within his life expectancy, his buyout will compound to about $1B if invested in a regular index fund. He's already made enough money at UF to last a lifetime. These types of incentives are destroying this sport.

Napier has to go immediately.

Yes stuck he’s a great coach

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And the fact that AD's keep agreeing to them is just sheer stupidity.

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This is the problem. It's not the lawyer's fault for getting their client the most amount of money possible. That's literally their job.