Florida football's Billy Napier a top-50 head coach, per CBS

[tapsgator]

I've gotten used to the disconnect between the titles and the content of articles by Gator fan boards posing as objective media but this one is just too good to pass up

gatorswire.usatoday.com/2024/05/15/florida-football-billy-napier-head-coach-rankings-cbs-sports/

The fact that you're crowing about having a coach ranked 47th in the country at the University of Florida is alternately hilarious and sad, but here's the actual content of the article they're quoting:

“The Gators haven’t finished higher than fourth in the SEC East in either of Napier’s two seasons, and he’s only 6-10 overall in conference play. There’s a good chance he won’t get a fourth season without serious improvement this year, but if you look at Florida’s schedule, it’s hard to see from where that improvement will come.”

Previously, Napier was at No. 43 in the 2023 rankings, a fall of four spots from last season’s standings.

[g8rfan]

What a joke. I have bad news for everyone that’s still crying about the schedule. The SEC isn’t getting any easier. Tired of these people. They have a scripted excuse for any and all of Napiers shortcomings.

[wahhappen]

And he was No.32 in the 2022 rankings. I can't see real good, is that a positive or negative trend? It's a good thing we loaded up on talent the past couple of years.

[tapsgator]

I think he's number one in terms of having guys that want to be at the University of Florida while it's a losing program that he's running further and further into the ground. I think that's it, he's been playing chess while we're thinking about checkers. He has gotten rid of the guys that don't want to be at UF while he is the head coach. You know the guys that want to win and play in the NFL. Those no-goodniks he's run out of the building and replaced them with people that are just happy to make the 2 deep at a University that used to be considered a destination school, but is well on its way past mediocrity to straight laughingstock. It's like getting Cormani McClain. We couldn't get him when he had options, but now that he's put some horrendous things on film and nobody wants him? He's a Gator. Brothers by a lack of choices in arms.

[Mojave Gator]

There are 134 teams in FBS. I refuse to believe that there are 87 head coaches in the country worse than Napier.

I saw a recent video from Ali Leek, who does podcasts about the Gators on YouTube. Her last one made me want to vomit. She sang Napier's praises, and she talked about what a brilliant recruiter that he is. Reality isn't even on the same planet. She has gone on record as saying that she wants him back in 2025 - the old, tired "We can't keep changing coaches" line. If we keep getting it this wrong, we can't afford not to.