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How Billy Napier is rebuilding Louisiana football
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:32 pm
SI
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Billy Napier’s office is freshly organized, so fresh that if “you’d-a come two weeks ago,” he says in his Georgia drawl, “it wouldn’t have looked like this.”
Office décor was not a priority in December when Napier arrived in Lafayette as the new 38-year-old head coach at Louisiana. It’s so Cajun here that some street signs are written in French. For a north Georgia boy like Napier, the locals remind him of his homeland, but “they just talk a little different.”
One corner of the new office is arranged with more significance than the rest. A national championship ring from Alabama’s 2015 team, the second and last title Billy was a part of in Tuscaloosa, sits on a shelf just above a photo montage of his father Bill, a legendary former high school coach in Georgia. Bill battled ALS for five years before he died last September, just months after the neurodegenerative disease deprived him of the ability to speak and just days after football season began without him at the helm of an offense for the first time in decades. Bill and Bama are the two inspiring elements Billy is using to rebuild Louisiana into the Sun Belt championship contender it was a half-decade ago.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:33 pm to hendersonshands
You mean the University of Louisiana AT Lafayette?
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:34 pm to OU812
I'm just quoting what the article says. Respecting the author's work, if you will.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:35 pm to hendersonshands
Y’all gonna make it to the mudbowl this year
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:38 pm to wildtigercat93
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“There is a method to the madness,” says Louisiana offensive coordinator Rob Sale, who worked for six years as a support staff member for Saban. “Everything, when you walk into this building, has the Alabama backbone. How we do our film breakdown, summer scouting reports, academic point structure, offseason program … everything is the same. We’re going to win here.”
National Championship incoming.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:40 pm to hendersonshands
quote:A win vs. Tulane?
National Championship incoming.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:41 pm to goldenbadger08
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A win vs. Tulane?
at least choose a team that we haven't beat several times in recent years.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:42 pm to hendersonshands
I like napier, he will accomplish as much as hud or more if he stays for a while
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:48 pm to The Egg
Napier seems to have more head coaching potential, with his organization skills and more of a tangible plan. The rest of his staff is way better than what Hud put around him. Our recruiting class is 63rd which is easily the highest it's been in a while.
Hud is currently like the 2nd ranked recruiter in the country right now for Mississippi State though.
Hud is currently like the 2nd ranked recruiter in the country right now for Mississippi State though.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:49 pm to hendersonshands
I remember when he was fired as OC at Clemson several years back. I honestly didn't know he just became a HC.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:49 pm to hendersonshands
Texas St stacked
La whatevers fricked
La whatevers fricked
Posted on 7/18/18 at 6:54 pm to The Egg
Best of all, he's a former Paladin
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:35 pm to hendersonshands
Too bad ULM is going to smack them around for the next few years. Viator is doing a good job and might just hang 70 on UL-L this year.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:37 pm to hendersonshands
Sort of surprised Arizona State didn't just hire him as HC
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:46 pm to tigerlife36
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Too bad ULM is going to smack them around for the next few years. Viator is doing a good job and might just hang 70 on UL-L this year.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:47 pm to VADawg
I think keeping him on at OC was a big part of their plan with the CEO in charge being Herm, but obviously Napier had bigger aspirations than being Herm Edwards' right hand man.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:48 pm to hendersonshands
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says Louisiana offensive coordinator Rob Sale
Damn this dude is making the coaching rounds... Could've sworn he left ULM for a pac 12 job last year.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:51 pm to Broski
He went to Arizona State to be the offensive line coach. He was Napier's first hire after he got the job. He's the OC and offensive line coach, but Napier is the playcaller.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 8:54 pm to hendersonshands
Honestly thought this was a HS football thread before opening
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