What actually are Napier's "Plan" and "Process" ?

He's planned on winning and is processing why he is not.

Seriously, I think he thought that his coaching style would scale up to the SEC level with recruiting. What he's realizing is that he's not as football smart as he may have thought. He's no Nick Saban.

He does have some CEO-type qualities, similar to Bobby Bowden and he should leverage that and adopt a style similar to his, which is to surround himself with other good coaches and let them handle the footballing stuffs.

Not CEO in a traditional business sense, but more as an overseer and ambassador type. We've fumbled NIL, but improvements have been made to the size of the staffing and facilities since he has arrived, which we had lagged behind on thanks to Foley.

He's also been a pretty good recruiter, but he's now at the point that without results this will start slipping.

The closest coach I can compare him to is Bobby Bowden. He left the coaching and football stuff to the assistant coaches while he closed the deal with recruits and speaking engagements at the FCA. Most of the game he didn't even wear a headset.

If he just hired an OC, he'd probably have a winning record at Florida honestly.

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Sabin may be thought to be a real SOB but if you worked for him you either got the job done or you were gone.

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Saban is brutal to his AC's. I worked with a guy who used to coach at the college level and hes still good friends with Coach Boom. They would talk on the phone when he worked for Saban and he would be like hey coach I gotta go, we got ANOTHER fkn coach's meeting. Lets see who loses their arse today.
He said Saban babies his players compared to what he does to his ACs

I will admit Billy seems to have done some good, but the errors he mad were too frequent and too soon, and he took way too long to correct these issues, or start trying to correct them.

Mark Hocke was a bad hire from the start, and nothing changed until the start of year 3.

That move could've started being made the moment we lost to FSU. Maybe not have a hire announced, but demoting Hocke to show fans we were serious about making changes. Instead he waits the last possible minute to hire someone, who then doesn't like it here for whatever reason, and bails to BC. Now we're stuck with either the guy he just demoted or the intern of that guy.

You could say it was in bad taste of Fitzgerald to leave when he did (makes you wonder what the motivation was, heard it was because Billy was too rigid and wanted to micro manage the program and Fitz wanted to do it his way...who knows but whatever the reason, he left) but the whole scenario is just yet another example of how Billy's "methodical" aka slow approach to these things leave him for the littlest margin for error.

Or how, in year 1, he was so slow in the portal. We admittedly needed a lot of talent because Mullen left behind a disaster, but Napier was way too passive with it. Even year 2 he started pretty slow in the portal, although he did end up getting a few decent WRs and that kid from San Diego State. Portal didn't end up being as bad as it looked at the start of the cycle, but it could've been way stronger had Billy not sat on his hands for so long.

It's just always too little too late for Napier. And how he approaches things makes it hard to sympathize for when we have "bad luck" because these bad breaks, which happen to everyone, is accentuated by gaps in our roster, coaching, and systems that come from Napier's approach.