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Post by Mojave Gator on Dec 17, 2023 2:02:31 GMT -5
What are the chances that RDB is still our head coach at the end of the 2024 season?
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Post by Rock Gator on Dec 17, 2023 6:56:15 GMT -5
If Stricklin stays, he has one more year. If Sasse sees the light and dumps Bad Hire Scott, then he's gone by Christmas '24.
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Post by wahhappen on Dec 17, 2023 9:26:53 GMT -5
I think we find a way to stay around 5-7 whereas somehow he is still given a chance to finish the season. I think he rolls Lagway out around the Georgia game once Mertz breaks the all time record for completion percentage without completing a forward pass, and it exposes the lack of development. Who knows? I can’t predict how he will let us down. I just know he will.
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Post by tapsgator on Dec 18, 2023 15:58:21 GMT -5
Anywhere from 2-4 wins on the schedule. 3-9 if I had to guess. We could very well be underdogs in our final 7 games with 3-4 double digit spreads. Allowed to finish the season for some reason known only to Scott Stricklin. Most interesting thing this offseason will be watching people scramble for hope as the "he's got this awesome sauce recruiting class coming in" falls apart. The level of delusion required to act like we're gaining ground via the portal as we lose our best offensive and defensive players and only projected guys to get drafted in rounds 1-3 next year and bring in Joey Slackman (ranked up there but behind both Etienne and Princely) and then 2 guys who aren't really even ranked by most services is pretty remarkable, but I feel like there's going to be even more ridiculous stuff to come.
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Post by g8rfan on Dec 18, 2023 16:25:39 GMT -5
Dude it’s fine. Etienne couldn’t block and our RB room is pretty good.. —Sone idiot on another board. I hope Etienne rushes for 400 yds against us next year just to see the look on Napier’s stupid face in the post game presser as he stumbles through his version of an explanation as to why he let out best player get away.
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Post by tapsgator on Dec 18, 2023 16:33:46 GMT -5
Dude it’s fine. Etienne couldn’t block and our RB room is pretty good.. —Sone idiot on another board. I hope Etienne rushes for 400 yds against us next year just to see the look on Napier’s stupid face in the post game presser as he stumbles through his version of an explanation as to why he let out best player get away. Filsaime and Williams and anybody else that leaves the class are probably just scared of getting blocked by Montrell the Mauler or Gutsy Graham Mertz on an end around. |
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Post by SoTxCaiman on Dec 18, 2023 16:54:27 GMT -5
2-10, I think that is math that even Strickland can do.
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Post by g8rfan on Dec 18, 2023 17:10:03 GMT -5
He gone.
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Post by Mojave Gator on Dec 18, 2023 17:48:50 GMT -5
2-10, I think that is math that even Strickland can do. That has been my estimation since early on. Watching our roster get decimated by defections, seeing nothing in terms of replacements through the transfer portal and watching the recruiting class crumble one by one, I voted for the last option. Too much negative momentum to rescue this thing now, and much of it is Napier's own doing. I believe that the hope was that someone with his alleged organizational skills would be perceptive and adaptable, not rigid and stubborn like it has turned out. He continues to defend and justify things that obviously don't work rather than fixing them. His refrain is distinctively Zookian in its tone. Zook always had a dogged devotion to the running game, continuing to do things that didn't work while firmly believing that they eventually would if he just kept doing them. Maybe it's a good thing for the offensive coordinators out there that Napier doesn't have one. Zook destroyed the careers and reputations of two or three OCs, and Muschamp did the same. They were coordinators in name only, always being overruled by the head coach and then being fired when results didn't follow. |
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Post by tapsgator on Dec 18, 2023 23:04:30 GMT -5
2-10, I think that is math that even Strickland can do. That has been my estimation since early on. Watching our roster get decimated by defections, seeing nothing in terms of replacements through the transfer portal and watching the recruiting class crumble one by one, I voted for the last option. Too much negative momentum to rescue this thing now, and much of it is Napier's own doing. I believe that the hope was that someone with his alleged organizational skills would be perceptive and adaptable, not rigid and stubborn like it has turned out. He continues to defend and justify things that obviously don't work rather than fixing them. His refrain is distinctively Zookian in its tone. Zook always had a dogged devotion to the running game, continuing to do things that didn't work while firmly believing that they eventually would if he just kept doing them. Maybe it's a good thing for the offensive coordinators out there that Napier doesn't have one. Zook destroyed the careers and reputations of two or three OCs, and Muschamp did the same. They were coordinators in name only, always being overruled by the head coach and then being fired when results didn't follow. Saw this in a tweet that I can’t find because I’m on the phone: “If Napier fails to bring in a top 10 class there’s no reason for him to stay in Gainesville. He was hired as an elite recruiter who hasn’t had one elite class and a CEO who hasn’t been able to hire a competent DC, OC, or STC” I think that’s being too kind to be honest. 1/3 in top 10 classes is crap at UF especially since you’ve had about 50% attrition, and he hasn’t even hired an OC and we don’t have a special teams coach. I talked to a player that graduated in 97 and was 3 years into the NFL when zook was hired. What do you think? I think we’ll be alright, he can recruit and he should stay out of the way. But can he coach? Man, I don’t know but I think we’ll be okay. He can recruit. Thats to say that zook revealed himself to be exactly what he was. Same with pretty much everybody since spurrier. Usually it’s been fairly close to what they were billed as. Napier it’s not even close. It’s pretty much the opposite of what he was billed as and what he claims to be. Thats no unique in and of itself, but what is super weird to me is that a significant portion of the fanbase and local media are pretending like this is to be expected. I’ve never seen so many strawman arguments as to why this is part of the plan all of which fall apart under any semblance of scrutiny or just him blowing them up with his actions and they just build a brand new one or pretend it’s not happening. It’s very weird |
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Post by Mojave Gator on Dec 19, 2023 2:30:16 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but incompetence at this level is not "part of the process". This is what people who have faked their way into positions that are far above their heads do. If they're rigid or narcissistic enough, they lash out at those who point out and question specific examples of their failures.
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Post by Mojave Gator on Dec 19, 2023 19:32:54 GMT -5
Anywhere from 2-4 wins on the schedule. 3-9 if I had to guess. We could very well be underdogs in our final 7 games with 3-4 double digit spreads. It is well within the realm of possibility for us to finish the season on an eight game losing streak. Great position for the incoming coach to be recruiting from. If that should happen, another Napier accomplishment would be worst record since 1979. He could also equal the longest losing streak to Kentucky, four games, last accomplished 1948-1951. I am beginning to believe the theory that at this point Napier is deliberately tanking and waiting on the buyout. I see no sense of urgency in hiring assistant coaches, in recruiting the transfer portal, or in making the best impression in recruiting high school athletes. The head coach can't even bother to be present when we visit our top recruits, even though we have nothing to prepare for before spring practice. |
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