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How Florida firing Billy Napier impacts Georgia football in 2025 and beyond
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How Florida firing Billy Napier impacts Georgia football in 2025 and beyond
Napier was in his fourth season as the Florida head coach, going 22-23 in his time in charge of the program. Florida, which like Georgia is off this coming week, is 3-4 on the season and coming off a 23-21 win over Mississippi State.
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Lane Kiffin has already turned the job down. I was thinking that since it appears that Kalen DeBoer has turned the corner at Alabama - having a passing QB that can actually run his offense plus getting some transfers that work in their defense (DeBoer abandoned the 3-4 in favor of a scheme more similar to what Ohio State is running now and Georgia should follow suit), it makes sense. Yes, he has a job for life at Ole Miss but he will never win a title there. But even then, I guess the public bashing of Florida that he did when he was the Tennessee coach in 2009, including his father Monte Kiffin giving everyone in college football the blueprint to defend Tim Tebow that Bama used to win the de facto national title game (the SECCG) would have made taking the job awkward. Kiffin would have been the biggest threat to UGA in Gainesville. He is a good recruiter, he has proven in two places - one of them FAU - that he can build a program and let's admit it, he is ahead of Smart and most of the rest of the SEC (except, again, maybe DeBoer) at the transfer portal/NIL thing. His offenses have also been good wherever he has gone, even back when he was still a failure as a head coach. With their failure to get him, whoever they hire instead is likely to fail. Again.
so - what defense is OSU running?
James Franklin was fired last week.
Billy Napier was fired this week...after a win....before their biggest game of the year?.
"If I'm reading the signs"....Florida and Penn State are swapping HC's. Napier is more of a Nittany Lion than a Gator....and Franklin is Florida's best available option. Imo. He has SEC experience and has recruited all over the Country.
Lol....why not?! They've tried everything else. I think Florida would be happy just getting back to 8 or 9 wins per season. And, Franklin can get em there and stabilize the Gator Program. Bring some sanity back to it. Lol
Go Dawgs!!!
I hope the Dawgs don't take this game lightly. Newly-inspired players can play better for a few games after their coach gets fired. Not Penn State, obviously. But, UAB, Arkansas, & UCLA come to mind this season. Plus, it's hard to prepare for the unknown of an interim coach.
@BigDawg61 No, Penn State is not hiring a 22-23 SEC coach, and the only reason why his record is that good is having future NFL QBs in 3 of his 4 years there - the one without he had a losing record - and playing in the weaker SEC East instead of the much tougher SEC West. Penn State is going to back up a Brinks truck to Indiana's Curt Cignetti. And now that James Franklin is a 53 year old head coach who has proven that he cannot win a national title and hasn't even won a conference title since 2016 - he is going to have to settle for a major program where 10-11 wins a year is fine. The one that best fits that description is UCLA. Florida is also going to make a run at Curt Cignetti and also Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman. If the strike out on both, I say they should hire the Missouri head coach.
Yeah absolutely, if anything, I'm more concerned about the effect it will have as far as this year's game with the Dawgs is concerned. UF will come into the game on fire and with little to lose…and that will make them dangerous.
Cignetti was given a high dollar, multi year extension recently. The buyout would be too high, plus a salary for the new HC at IU. Costing them millions and millions of dollars. So, it doesnt matter if they back up 2 Brinks trucks to Cignetti's house, I dont see that happening.Unless..Pedo State agrees to pay half, or more of his buyout to Indiana, plus paying Cignetti his new multi million dollar psu salary, and paying Franklin's buyout. That would be close to a 50-60 million dollar decision, if not more, for psu to make, if they pay 50% of his buyout. If they dont pay any buyout to IU if it happened, they still have to pay Franklin, plus a new incoming HC, and thats more than a few million there. Cignetti wouldnt come with a cheap price tag, thats for sure. But, you never know these days..
What was the blueprint to defend Tim Tebow?
have him not play with Percy Harvin
rumor is they offered Kirby a billion dollars to come to Florida. You know everything on the internet is true
Matt Rhule has also been thrown out there as a PS option.
Lolol....I agree...I wouldn't hire either one. But, Franklin does have a good track record at Vandy. He knows how to recruit the SEC. He knows how to coach winning football. And, he brought the Penn State Program back from the dead, after the Joe-Pa Sanduski incident.
He can resuscitate the Florida Program, in the same way he did Vandy & Penn St.. Forget Championships for now...that's an unstable program, with an identity crisis....imo. Florida just needs to get back to playing "winning football".
Kirby has the Championships covered...Lol.
Go Dawgs!!!!
Recruiting in the State of Florida would be quite the challenge. UF, FSU, the U, SF, CF and then you have UGA, AUB and others in the mix. With playing time being the biggest concern for most players, the NIL and portal, there quite a few factors that players have to consider. It''ll be interesting to see who ends up being their coach. It looks like this year will have quite a few coaches unseated. As my A & M friend says, "There's always Jimbo Fisher. 😆
GEORGIA better be prepared next week, saw a stat where something like 80% of the underdog teams who fired their head coach over the last 3 years has beat the points spread w/ numerous teams actually winning, in their first game played under their interim coach. Seems playing with nothing to lose and a fresh look free wheeling coach is a dangerous combo. In the immortal words of the Boy Scouts…Be prepared Dawgs…be prepared
Previously, athletes had 30 days to enter the portal immediately after a coach’s departure. Going forward, that timeframe will be 15 days and will begin five days after the new coach is hired or publicly introduced.
I think this was effective immediately when the new rules were announced. Players affected by the coaching changes this season before the new rules were announced (Arkansas, UCLA, etc) would follow the previous rules. Let me know if this is correct.
Florida has WAY too many resources—they'll be back and competitive in a short time.