🔥 Napier DEFENDED by Expert, Gators FUTURE Analyzed 🔥 - JAKE CRAIN

[@davidwilson2477]

I absolutely agree. It’s a weak coaching market so unless we dump a ton of money buying out Billy’s contract and potentially buying out our new coach’s contract plus signing new coach to a mega contract, it’s not likely nor does it make sense financially.

[@FightingMexican]

Billy is: 15-18 overall 10-18 against power 4 opponents 2-12 against ranked opponents 1-10 against rivals His best recruiting class was ranked 13th overall His current recruiting class is ranked 51st overall If the administration allows Billy to return, it sends the message that their focus is solely on being a top academic institution, and mediocrity is acceptable in the major revenue sports. UF seems complacent being the new Vanderbilt.

[@Esteban-d1d3t]

Very well said😎

[@thelightknight7245]

@@FightingMexican u dont know what the hell ur talking about. It's not easy building a program. That's y we have failed with our past hires. U have to give people time

[@spencerwarren9219]

Volnation please send our sincere thanKS to Scott S AD for the good news letter on billy. Rest of the sec wants to Thank him for keeping billy lol lol lol go vols.

[@go.gators]

I want whatever DJ lagway wants

[@henrysimmons6767]

Same

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

Team was bought in with Zook, he did a lot less losing, recruited like a mad man, and he still got fired. Either the money people are ready to pull the trigger on this or not but Napier has earned termination. And the Rashada thing might mean zero buyout. No coach in UF's history has received more support and investment and then underperformed like Napier. He's earned termination. He has not earned a buyout.

[@tobecontinued47]

It’s really complicated because the best players on our team are all Billie’s recruits and transfers….. like the more it’s literally only his guys and the seniors get weeded out the better our team actually looks

[@davidschlarp1606]

The best players on a sub .500 team🤔 good players will probably want to play for a better HC

[@fiveleo]

@@davidschlarp1606 That's just the thing, this team wouldn't be sub .500 if they played like they've played the last few games. We should've won Tennessee if not for Mertz injury + Bily mistakes, and we should've won Georgia if Lagway wasn't injured. We would've won earlier if we played like we are now, and would've won critical games barring out players getting injured. This is a GOOD team, it's unfortunate that would've-should've is a bad argument in college football because wins are all that matters.

[@stevebeckerman2335]

The problem with recruiting at Florida rite now is that the powers that be arent opening up the checkbook and other schools are

[@Esteban-d1d3t]

And that Billy's body of work isn't exactly attractive to a kid who wants to win

[@pvsurfco]

I’m conflicted because all of a sudden this team is gelling big time and yes I do have hope now watching Lagway and these young guys players like Gates, Baugh and our Mizell. I’d be okay giving Billy one more year to see if this ascension continues but would also be okay with Lane, Cignetti, or maybe even Deion as crazy as that last one sounds.

[@shawnmack11]

Cignetti. Lane and Deion are rivals of the UF.

[@willhopson1277]

If we hire Deon I’d probably be done as a fan.

[@notusedexer]

If he can't recruit this year and we don't fire him, we're just digging the hole deeper.

[@AdamMurr-l6q]

I truly believe Florida and the UAA (Stricklin as well) want mediocre. Napier fits the bill!! Absolutely embarrassing. I say we move to the ACC since we’re not serious about football anymore.

[@BigBlueHorses]

1- Stop making excuses for losing. Oh it’s injuries. Oh it’s schedule. Oh it’s… STOP! It’s disgraceful. 2- Until UF leadership commits in word and action to be a true football blue blood nothing else matters. 3- The portal is voluntary. No one has to enter. 4- Napier is G5 and turned UF into a G5 doormat. 5- Nothing has changed. Pretending it has is cognitive dissonance. 6- Gator Nation deserves better.

[@jkmarshall3553]

The right thing to do is let Lagway recover properly, not rush him back to service and potentially end his playing career!

[@matthewcorn463]

Ur overreacting to a strained hamstring. It’s not gonna end his playing career just stop

[@jkmarshall3553]

@@matthewcorn463 You, of all people, don't know that!

[@camronpulliam1107]

It ain’t that serious lol

[@Freshy_Jones]

He already said it was minor dude it’s barely anything he won’t even miss a week

[@p33dip89]

The recruiting class gotta at least be to 15

[@Drillpink]

I remember seeing Brian leftwich get carried to the line of scrimmage that boy was determined😂

[@mikenicks7129]

The Gators are playing great now! Let’s just take it one game at a time and see what happens. Losing DJ is a crusher but that’s not on coaching

[@jonny455]

When rivals tell you to keep your coach you get rid of them

[@Drillpink]

The reality is there's no hot splash coaches out there fellas... Y'all wanna keep experimenting ????

[@larrycox3332]

Dude I get this if it was year one or even year two but year three! you lost me bro

[@MJ-ut9gp]

We all knew this year was going to be bad. If we have 6 wins it's better than we hoped for before the season started

[@MJ-ut9gp]

My problem is with recruiting, the reason we fired Mullen in the first place has become a bigger problem for Billy even though Saban is gone.

[@larrycox3332]

@@MJ-ut9gp last season we should have been 7-5 coach lost 2+ games just from playing calling and poor time management same as this season should be 5-3 / 6-2 once again poor coaching and game management

[@notusedexer]

​@@MJ-ut9gpI expected minimum 8 wins

[@NickSerrano-iw9zc]

Jake had some of the funniest analogies 😹😹

[@WeAreTheRolands]

Keep Billy. We are playing well and if we let him go we will lose all the tier 1 guys in the portal and have to start from scratch with a garbage recruiting class. We are okay good football right now. Calm down folks 💁‍♂️

[@zairesays]

1-10 vs rivals 2-13 ranked opponents. That’s PATHETIC & a (currently) 51st ranked recruiting class is embarrassing. WTF u mean “calm down” he shouldn’t be our HC. *Wins & losses means more than effort at the end of the day*

[@tristc6909]

What are you seeing,

[@zairesays]

@@tristc6909 Effort. And fighting hard is what im seeing currently. But however now lemme ask u something.. where has effort & fighting hard under Billy Napier’s tenure gotten us? 15-18 current overall record & 1-10 vs our rivals…??? What are you trying to justify to me about the worst coach in Gator History.? Please answer this for me..

[@JohnDoe-ts1qk]

He was given the worse roster in probably 20 years 😢 we see what’s happening with his guys ! Gotta be a CLEAR upgrade. Hear you but gotta take emotions out of it, talent can overcome coaching, that’s fiction or non fiction no in between. Go Gators

[@zairesays]

@@JohnDoe-ts1qk That’s not a valid excuse in year 3. What’s going over your head is that these are HIS PLAYERS & HIS CULTURE. No excuse in year 3

[@f.a.m.o.u.s.93]

When I say it tho I’m wrong 😩

[@metalroofquoter633]

Cant get no love

[@skars_8]

Opinions are never wrong and should only be heard with respect. You can't be 1 of 8 billion people humans and truly believe your own options is the right one. Ignore the haters, trust in God and speak your heart.

[@qlee2385]

White 🧊 is colder in some people 👀

[@RJ-fe9pu]

Nothing in 3 years says he's going to win

[@zairesays]

I agree! It’s at the point now where they’re just making these crazy titled videos in favor of Billy Napier for the sake of *Content Purposes* Napier is 1-10 vs rivals & 2-13 vs ranked opponents. Yes it’s great that the team is “fighting hard & giving better effort” but at the end of the day.. WINS & LOSSES matters the most. And now with the 51st ranked recruiting class there’s nothing anyone can make justifiable to me as to why he should our HC in 2025 albeit it’s looking like he will our coach next season sadly.

[@RJ-fe9pu]

@zairesays He's turned us into Vanderbilt except vandy can win

[@qlee2385]

💯

[@kingsaco]

If Florida keeps Billy next year, they might as well let him finish out the contract. Why? It's shows that they like being mediocre.

[@qlee2385]

@ they do like being mediocre as long as they’re making $ they don’t care

[@dustindodds4827]

I think Billy has earned another year. There's only one guy to get if UF cuts ties. Tulane's HC

[@jordan._.thomas4913]

Been saying this for 3 years, naiper is not a coach for any SEC team

[@hilbertshotel]

Quick! Name a HC who started his SEC coaching career with three straight losing seasons and went on to win a championship. I’ll wait.

[@skars_8]

Everyone needs to realize this isn't 2007 anymore and it's a different era of college ball. It's impossible to take a dumpster fire of program and turn it around in one year and keep that momentum. NIL is a problem, the conferences are different, the opponents are all good. No longer cupcakes really. Go play cf25 without cheating on Heisman and try and recruit a top class and win with this schedule. And that's not even really adding in NIL. Or true politics. But you'll see it's takes awhile to build an creditable program

[@rmg797]

You couldnt be more wrong than you are with this take. In the Transfer Portal era you very well can turn a program around a lot quicker than you could before. Wake up.

[@skars_8]

@rmg797 most transfer portal players will play one year maybe 2 max. And your lucky to have your pick of the best when competing with other programs. You can't rely on tranfor portal alone. Look at Florida State.

[@jkmarshall3553]

This comment is so ridiculous it doesn't even deserve a proper reply!

[@skars_8]

@@jkmarshall3553 or you can't think of anything intelligent to say.

[@rmg797]

@@skars_8 Nobody said a thing about relying solely on the portal so stop acting like that is the point. The point is, it doesnt take a long time now to rebuild a program...it takes way less time...unless you are biLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLy napier who uses slow antiquated processes. This year's recruiting class is garbage and the only way Napier is going to survive is through the portal. Keeping Napier means we are now set back another 2 years. Its crazy that fans seem to think something different is going to happen when we are on our way to our 3rd losing season with nothing but a bunch of moral victories in losses. You are wrong and you can't even understand why.

[@williambyrd2149]

Top NIL players will come to play with Lagway and go against an NFL schedule at UF in 2025.

[@willhopson1277]

All these fire billy people but very few offering alternative choices. So what ? Lane or bust ?

[@bearsoulman]

please keep billy 🙏🏽

[@lewisgrimes7171]

You go get Lane! Period… stop with give Billy 1 more year

[@mpclazz]

Jake Crain is hilarious

[@williambyrd2149]

Lagway Heisman contender in 2025 & 2026. Uninjured Lagway beats UGA and bad QB Beck. QB is the key.

[@kswiss6978]

Billy sucks. A fourth year will not change that.

[@MJ-ut9gp]

Idk man I was tough on Billy but I'm inching towards another year if we win two more

[@kswiss6978]

@ don’t get it wrong I want him to succeed because if he does UF succeeds. But I just don’t trust him and this staff with the report cards they have turned in

[@thomashoyle1935]

Year 4 with this team and Lagway at QB UF beats UGA no problem

[@kswiss6978]

@ idk if lagway stays or goes. Whether Napier is here or not. This is a whole new world of cfb

[@thomashoyle1935]

@ I say give him a 4th year see what he can do with lagway there isn’t a coach out there that I would even want

[@B23rie]

I say keep Billy but Im afraid Billys best is 8-4 maybe 9-3 with prime Lagway. That Miami game was so bad. We had all off season to prepare for them. It’s almost like Billy needs some preseason games to figure things out. Billy has yet to beat a top 20 team. He better beat LSU & Ole Miss if Lagway is playing

[@stanleyday7293]

1 - 10 against rivals, 2 - 13 against ranked teams, 2025 Recruiting ranked in the 50s, heading towards 3 losing seasons, coached terribly against Miami, Texas A&M, and Tennessee, offense and defense ranked in the lower half of division 1 and will get worse after the next three games - UF Whales have closed their wallets - Billy needs to be fired after the season

[@spencerwarren9219]

Volnation please send our thank you for the we are keeping billy letter your AD sent out. The future looks bright wait not for Florida for vols and rest of sec lol.

[@Nupetay_1]

Bro this is madness 😂, the 3 year test says Billy isnt a good coach , we have seen no improvement to believe so except a half against Georgia and we have an ass class right now .. Let’s say Billy wins with lagway what happens when he is gone? We right back to the slums

[@kingmarcell312]

Napier hasn’t beaten a winning team yet but we want to keep him ??? lol

[@p33dip89]

An what we hired a army for

[@michaeljohnson9877]

if your scott strickland, you fire yourself and let someone else make the higher next year. There is no clear dude that we should go get and need to let this ride out till next season with billy. I feel like this team is turning a corner.

[@MJ-ut9gp]

I was tough on Billy but if we win 2 more I think that's enough progress and we let him get payback against miami next year. I think the team that showed up on Sunday could have gone tow to tow with Miami.

[@michaeljohnson9877]

@@MJ-ut9gp I want to run the score up on them next season in Miami

[@BasicUser123_]

If Georgia rolls ole miss this weekend is everyone still gonna be on the lane train?

[@henrysimmons6767]

Will be hilarious if it happens and just our luck of course

[@lewisgrimes7171]

Ole Miss rolls Georgia

[@Michael561.]

Billy have three coaches making 1 million dollars have whole army support staff recruiting suck it’s time for him to go.

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

No coach in UF's history has received more support than Napier, and no one has underperformed like Napier.

[@leonhartz5392]

Love watching this episode but I still think we need to fire Billy.

[@DragonBushi]

This is year 3 why are we trying to still keep him we may have another 5 game winning season exactly what coach will do worse? Ask that question. If a coach come to florida next year they can't do worse than billy like seriously

[@BrianKorth-nu7gw]

I’m tired of hearing about coaching. We have distracted ourselves from trying to enjoy the season we wait 9 months for. Constant negativity. Go Gators

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

UF is not a place for participation trophies.

[@NoahCalhoun-v9o]

That’s of course we don’t get Lippin, but I’m pretty sure Laney is going to Gainesville. That’ll keep DJ likely.

[@Esteban-d1d3t]

3rd year...10 weeks and we can't even sniff the top 25......add the number 50 recruiting class and the answer is simple...we need a PROVEN QUALITY COACH...not a "let's practice being a coach at Florida" hire. This guy ain't it

[@Drillpink]

The Mullen hire was bad timing.The should have hired Mullen after urban rather than a coach with no head coaching experience with muschamp

[@davidschlarp1606]

What do you have to lose if you have to wait until after the playoff when Billy has the #50 class and falling? He is already going to bring in a garbage class. Why not don it with a better,competent HC? AND we all know people are talking behind the scenes. They will already be seeing who is interested before they do anything with Billy

[@DragonBushi]

No we shouldn't bute the billy bullet. He doesn't know anything about florida. Plus for as we know why would he guve florida good advice about what we can do about being better if his team is down. What we do know is billy won't bring a championship and probably won't make it to a playoff game

[@NoahCalhoun-v9o]

Personally, I like Jeff Brown, or even Kerwin Bill

[@MJ-ut9gp]

Mullen couldn't recruit but wtf is this

[@shawnnichols8969]

We need to get Deon next year if he keeps winning

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

hell no

[@blanco8451]

Another year with Billy is another wasted year with DJ.

[@xavierkiel429]

Right if you let Billy go we're back at step one which is stupid. Did everyone forget when the corner back that we got from Bama said about Florida. Number #26 said Florida is not stable with their head coaches. Hence is one reason why our recruiting is continually falling and the ones we have now are leaving. GET THE HINT, LET BILLY COOK STOP TRYING TO GET RID OF HIM DUMMIES

[@xosuper9193]

This guest couldn't be worse at taking the temp of the situation. Billy has proven he cant win. Has proven he cant recruit at this level, and the people are done with it. Guy is a loser and will be fired before fsu game book it

[@UZnate]

Where would Michigan be if they dumped Harbaugh every time the fans wanted to? I live in Michigan and I guarantee you almost everyone gave up on him well before the 2021 playoff run

[@jkmarshall3553]

At least he wasn't stringing back to back to back losing seasons while he was there. Come on bro! Apples to Lemons!

[@Drillpink]

Harbaugh was a proven coach billy is not

[@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628]

Wow, this is horrible comparison.

[@Drillpink]

@@charlestoddsullivanforpres6628 Exactly

[@chrissmith9889]

You make no sense talking about firing Coach Napier....quit the foolishness

[@willietate1968]

We need prime time Deon let's go get him

[@TheLemon420]

Almost beat UGA with a 3rd string walk on QB from Yale. If Lagway doesn't go out, UF wins. Napier might have finally turned a corner here. We shall see

[@JimStanton-m1b]

This guy doesn’t seem to know UF football. Thumbs down….

[@henrysimmons6767]

He doesn't but that's the point of bringing him on as an outsider