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I don’t know how to quantify and rate things like this. In 4 seasons I don’t believe Napier ever won a road game against a team with more than 4 wins on the year. But, he definitely upset some much better teams at home. So I’d say the stadium has effectively “won” some games they shouldn’t have.

Wisconsin has everyone down here beat and it isn't even close.

It required some luck last year, and it will require some luck this year. But it is at least possible and that is about as much as can be hoped for.

College football can get more eyes while still rotting away the foundation. It's like a catapult hurling a stone. After launch the stone keeps getting higher, but theres no longer an upward force being applied to it. These players are using facilities that guys 20 years ago effectively paid for. No one is giving anything to the future anymore. We're in the reverse mortgage era of college football.

This point in the sport reminds me of baseball during the home run record chasing steroid era. It is a spectacle, to be sure. But, it's also the death throes unless something changes for the better.

I don’t care who wins as long as it isn’t Miami. So, I guess that just leaves Indiana.

You guys don’t want the 25 year dormant Miami fans showing up again. They’re the worst group in the sport. You remember that video from earlier this year when Louisville spanked their arse? Some Miami fan got cheapshotted by people coming at him from all angles. They did that to their fellow fans, they’ll do it to you too. Just Canes things…

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I think this is honestly his most pathetic frick up to date

But he’s 33 now. A&M has stood behind him. That’s his community.

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Well now they have an entire offseason to think about what was, what could have been, and how Manziel couldn't even bother showing up after agreeing to. I think this should be the final straw. If I were a fan/booster that had stood behind him, it certainly would be for me. As far as fanbase psychology goes, big losses demand a villain, and he is a candidate. His lack of presence almost certainly didn't affect the outcome, but fan is short for fanatic.

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Putting aside him being a Gator homer, he sucks.

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If he is, he hides it very well. If anyone gets a pass in the state, it has been Miami in my experience. But I have purposefully avoided him for a long time now. He's just terrible and whenever I see his name mentioned it is always attached to something stupid.

I've heard nothing about Baugh. You have any source?

That would be the first misstep of the Sumrall regime. He hyped Baugh up in his first press conference. You don't hype a guy up and then let him leave unless the price was extremely higher than his value.

I turned it off in 2010. Got too boring. Who cares about the rest?

Seriously though, why is Florida State blue and Florida green?

It’s so weird seeing a Florida coach actually going out to get good coaches. It tainted the start of every new regime seeing the coaching community at large seemingly refuse to join the latest idiot we hired.

Either that, or the previous head coaches really thought their old staff from the prior school was good enough.

This is shaping up to be the most exciting staff assembled at Florida in a really long time. Whether it translates to wins or not, who knows. But it is extremely encouraging.

The last two coaches just hired friends. Prime example being Mark Hocke. Napier's S&C guy from Louisiana Lafayette was made one of the highest paid strength and conditioning coaches in the country. I think he was the 2nd highest paid in 2022. An article says in 2023 he was still the 4th highest paid. In 2023 he also got extended. Then 2024 he got "transitioned" into being a Director of Player Relations getting paid 750k per annum. Guy goes from being paid the 2nd most in the country, to not even being deemed worthy of holding the job title. How does that happen? Was Napier getting kickbacks?

This is the quintessential Billy Napier story. It was just never-ending retardation. And the worst part was that his on-field game day performance made his off-field performance look masterful in comparison.