Anyone know anything? I was at the game and couldn't see much

That’s probably not true. I don’t think Billy would waste time on unnecessary things like eating.

Anyways, I told everyone many weeks ago he wasn’t keeping anyone on staff. I think it’s clear why that is. And so far everything I was told over a month ago is coming to fruition. I also mentioned the infrastructure he was going to build here and how he was fully backed by our Admin. I’m saying all this to remind people that not only does Billy get it, but this dude is already elevating this program and hasn’t coached a single game yet.

Didn’t watch last nights game cause it has zero impact on our program at this point.

I haven’t been this confident in our program since 2006/2007 and I hope everyone enjoys the journey we are about to embark on with our new fearless leader. *popcorn gif*

Personally I don’t think it can get any worse than where we are right now.
I have a lot of hope for Billy Napier and we’re pretty much at the equivalent of rock-bottom now so there’s nowhere to go but up.

Let’s put this behind us, it’s time for gator nation to rise again from the ashes.

Billy's army is full of people who straight up live to recruit.

She attended Alabama with the intention of working with the football program.

Billy Napier, who was a wide receivers coach and an offensive analyst on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama for six seasons, noticed Turner’s work habits. When Napier became head coach at Louisiana in December of 2017, he hired Turner as the Ragin’ Cajuns’ director of on-campus recruiting. She had just completed a two-year internship with the Bills and Pegula Sports & Entertainment in community relations and business development.[/S]

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..GO GATORS!!!

Some may not agree but after the facts played out it's not hard to see.
1: everyone except a few of us , was play Emory he gives us the best chance to win.
What he really did by playing is show that we play non committed players at Florida and have absolutely no standards as a program. ( Goes for Copeland and any other transferring out players).
2: It showed what we have saw all year and in the previous bowl game.
Having Emory (all transferring out players)on the field ( because he gives us the best chance to win ) is a slap in the face to all the former and current players that put in the work and actually are true Gators.
3: Continuing the insanity
Continuing to undervalue other players who will play with heart is ridiculous. The old adage next man up does not apply at the University of Florida.
4: Emory Jones (great young man ) unfortunately great young men that can't play a position put others at risk continuously. We saw several big hits taking place on Florida wide receivers because he locks in on receivers and leads them into double coverage. We saw student athletes get injured because he can't play the position and hasn't been able to. (Best chance to win). Sad a prayer for Shorter his heart for Florida is a true love !
5 : Remaining Coaches :
Showed lack of passion or concern for the School (program) that facilitated their living the last several years. They did not represent the University well whatsoever.

What transpired was one of the darkest days in UF history, the UAA used these words when they found out about Mullen and his recruiting violation. Thank the good Lord change is here! I also hope this opens eyes to what potentially can happen when you have non invested , non passionate players and coaches representing the program. I also hope it brings to light that the (best chance to win players) sometimes their limitations create danger for other just as deserving student athletes.
End all be all the (best chance to win ) did exactly what they have been doing. That's get embarrassed by a lesser program,and look just as terrible doing it while once again losing.

Has played like a champion. Bravo.

Can you give me your 5 pros and cons of the team moving forward. Not Pierce should’ve got 25 carries a game or this coach sucked or Mullen this.

Like… Pro- Open competition
Con- We are thin at Long Snapper

I sat behind the gator sideline, next to the band near the tunnel. I looked up and down did not see #23 Marcus Bowman, anyone has insight?

Due to COVID. That sucks for Wake Forest and for Jacksonville.

This will be our live game thread for today/tonight anything regarding the Bowl game tonight. Florida is going to blow these dudes and fans out of the building tonight. Take that to the bank.

(Not that it means anything) but I was a huge Mullen fan. Loved the hire. After this I’m done with the past tho. Mullen screwed up choosing EJ over Corrall. (Obviously) He screwed up with the hires. (Obviously) He screwed up in many different ways but after tonight (as bad as it was) I can finally move on. I believe we will be back but CBN has a lot of work to do and I’m excited to watch it unfold. Cheers to this being the last time we see a Gator team this bad for a long, long time. Go Gators

Is this what it feels like to hit rock bottom? Kids look like they are playing hard but we are so bad we can’t even beat UCF. Penalties, poor d-line play, poor o-line play, terrible qb play. I am so glad this season is over. I hope Billy keeps giving us good news on hires and recruits. Man I need it. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

What good is it for us to lose to this UCF team when we have no staff and thin depth?

Bring back Gators football for us ! Looking forward to you bringing us back to the top

I suspect we’ll have a lot of Noles come look at the Board thread titles. Let’s make it sting for them a little.

WTF? That is why you’ll never be a Head Coach!

State Title on the line…lol…

Mullen was fired on November 21st, so he's been gone 31 days now. I'm pleased with Napier's initiative and progress in the 28 days he's been on the job, albeit with the first 7 splitting time with ULL.

How long did it take Mullen to hire as many staffers as Napier did? His work done so far stacks up nicely against the other big hires this offseason (Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley)

Hector takes a look at some underclassmen for the bowl game

Probably a good sign that he is planning to return. There have been whispers all week that he has changed his mind about transferring.

Anybody know what combination we will be wearing tonight?

People know how I feel about MW but I don’t want this thread to be about him. I want it about the numbers and x and o’s. I want @Tarjf to chime in since he is an x and o guy. As a numbers guy I look at the numbers and they scare me.

I’m also not going to go full nerd with an advanced stats discussion to start but I’m not against this discussion going there. I just want to talk about shooting.

On the year we are 260th in the country at 31.2% from 3. That is brutal. We are 114th from 2 at 51.4%. Not great but above average.

Not accounting for free throws we average .936 points per 3 point attempt and 1.028 points per 2 point attempt. So you’d think we would want to attempt 3s at a below average rate. However, we don’t. We are 105th in the country with 41.6% of our attempts being from 3. I don’t understand why we continue to do what we do poorly with so much frequency.

Look at the Stony Brook game, one where @Franz Beard said we shot well. He’s right. We were above our season averages. 34.8% from 3 and 64.9% from 2. That’s 1.04 points per 3 and 1.30 from 2. However, despite such a large differential we still shot 3s at a high rate of 38.33%. Yes, below our season average but still too high.

Think of it this way. We had a big size advantage yesterday. We were scoring 25% more per attempt from 2 than 3. Our season average is 10% more. Yet, we didn’t see a significant increase in 2% rate commensurate with the significant increase in output.

So this is where I want the x and o guys to educate me. I get it that in general terms we run a lot of 5 out offense and we are spotting up shooters. But why? Why would you run a system that emphasizes what you don’t do well?

I was worried about how this team was put together. Yes, if you look at individuals we did VERY well in the portal. But if you look at the sum of the parts we were putting together a team that was going to be an incredibly inefficient 3 point shooting team and the numbers bear that out so far.

And yes, I know we are 43 offensively in KenPom but I also know our opponents’ average NET is 187 and we’ve only played 2 games that weren’t quad 3 or 4. Can we really continue what we are doing and win more than 10 SEC games? With a current NET of 60 we probably need at least 10. Perhaps 9 if we beat Oke State later in the year.

So again, what am I missing? What is the on court advantage of emphasizing what you don’t do well? Can’t you run sets and actions to get high percentage 2s instead of low percentage 3s?