A New Day: The Staff

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*****Note*****
I have all five kids home from school today. It has been a while since we had all the kids back together under one roof. I am going to attempt to take the rest of the day off today + tomorrow to spend time with my family. I hope you all do the same and spend time with the people most important to you in your life. Football is not life or death. Life is. Make sure you take time to enjoy it. I know I will. If I am not around at all today or tomorrow Merry Christmas to you and your family. This community is VERY important to me so thank you for being part of this journey.

INSIDE ACCESS:

Whew. I woke up today feeling numb. This entire season felt like I was trapped in the Matrix or something – things did not seem real to me. Unfortunately, they were, but today is a new day. As you read yesterday – a story was written, naming the rest of the coaching staff + salaries. I can’t tell you all the levels of how bad this is – some of these guys are incredibly angered that this information was leaked/written/talked about.

You can talk about things getting out all you want, but that is not the point in this situation – dudes are HOT right now!

I will not focus on the how, who, or the why right now. I can talk about a few things, though – “IF” things remain the same, which I am not sure they will, by the way, but if they do – UF spent 7.2 Million of the allocated 7.5 Million on the coaching staff – minus Billy of course. I wanted to talk about multiple departments in the football office for a minute. Hopefully, this will shed a little light on the magnitude of what the football department is becoming.

Strategy/Quality Control/Analyst:
The goal is to have a 12 man crew in this department. Pail Pasqualoni will serve as the Director of Advanced Scouting. The WR, QB, ILB, OLB, and Safety positions are currently filled. O’Hara is QB’s, and Jamar Chaney is OLB’s. I am not naming the other three right now – not sure if those names are out there, and again last night was REAL BAD, and I am going to avoid that at all costs. We are spending around 700,000.00 on this department.

We will have positions for four GA’s, 12 students assistants for each position, and 20 students for Nutrition & Sports Science. Add in another 7 interns for S&C and development (Paid). The performance department consists of Joe Danos & Frank Ogas (Under 300,000.00). Four people for Nutrition – (Under 300,000.00).

Five in the actual S&C department – (Under 1 Million). Under 800K for Operations – five positions with four being hired currently – One to go – Chief of Staff. Vernell Brown department (Gator Made) will expand to 6 positions (Under 500,000.00) Another 12 students in Operations roughly. There are five positions for On-Campus Recruiting + Another 8 Interns (Paid) and the entire department – only two have been hired. (Under 600,000.00) Marketing has 12 positions to fill. Personnel Department is big – runs 20 deep. Only six have been hired (Under 500,000.00) with 15 positions to fill. There is 5,000,000.00 for Support Staff Salary, and we have a minimal, limited amount left with more than a few hires yet to make.

Also, I was told Justin Shorter is ok and a lot of that last night was precautionary.

I am in my mid-70s and it is hard to watch Gator football. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to over 100 games, I saw Spurrier beat Auburn for the conference championship in 66 but it is beyond sad now watching our athletic facilities grow into some of the best in the nation and our football program drop so far at the same time!

The gators looked like second class citizens fighting with UCF after a game they lost and it just made US look like sore losers on National Tv.

The confusion on the field, miss run routes, and wasting time outs early in the game all year, not lined up and ready, not the right number of players on the field, not having a quality FG kicker, a Qb that would’ve played or been called a scat back in my day, oh so many classless unsportsmanlike conduct penalties and more illegal procedure penalties than touchdowns in every game we played Lead to all too much drinking, cussing, table pounding and finally turning off the TV because at times it was unwatchable.

I want to win a national championship I want to win the SEC but more than that I want the gators to be respected again and they haven’t been for a long time at least not on the football field. I for one hope & pray Billy Napier brings class and responsibility and the word TEAM back to gator football and I will be happy. If he does all that and we leave everything on the field and finish nine and three I will continue to contribute the way I have for over 40 years.

I am one of the biggest gator fans in the Villages, Florida. I have a custom gator golf cart built from the ground up which is the best out of 70,000 golf carts here and it has everything From Bluetooth, hundred watch speakers, the gator fight song and custom paint that’s the exact same orange and blue of the gators on it but I don’t drive it with the same pride I used to and I can only speak for myself but I want pride and dignity and respect back To gator football.

Give us one more hurrah Coach Napier.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Happy Hanukah and Happy Holidays to ALL---my old friends on Rivals, the 1st and ten readers and so far I am a fan of the new lead writer Jason.

Just maybe 2022 will be the start of an ALL NEW FLORIDA GATOR FOOTBALL program from the ground up as we did for ALL the new facilities the past 4 yrs. GO " NEW " GATORS

…great kid. Simply not a P5 QB.

painful to watch.

First of all, it was definitely not a punch. Secondly, he got spat on.

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but current USF CO-DC and LB’s coach Ernie Sims last 2 follows are Toney and Karl Scott

He is going to be ok. That was a sobering sight watching him being carted off.

Thanks for your service.

Edit- how do you share gifs lol

Dude may be an offensive guy, but damn, for a late arrival he could end up loading the defense

seems to have a ton of interest from another 4* LB out of Alabama

looks like he may steal 4* California DE Kevonte Henry from MeatChicken (please, please, please)

The guy seems to love him some defense

if we tried this hard to play games like we do trying to fight then we might have won more games.

Is truly atrocious. Worst bowl performance I have ever seen from a Gator team.

CBN has a full rebuild in front of him.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With five of 10 on-field coaching hires completed, Florida head coach Billy Napier is targeting four NFL assistants and a key Big Ten staffer for the next wave, a source told The Athletic.

Napier is seeking to bring aboard Chris Rumph from the Chicago Bears, Karl Scott from the Minnesota Vikings and Eric Henderson of the Los Angeles Rams on the defensive side. He also aims to reunite with New York Giants offensive line coach Rob Sale, the source indicated. Those discussions are on hold until those NFL teams complete their seasons.

Napier might be able to move sooner in targeting Michigan State assistant William Peagler as tight ends coach. The Spartans wrap up their season by facing Pitt in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 30.

Though contracts aren’t finalized, the staff is primed to feature four $1 million assistants — Scott, Henderson, Sale and co-defensive coordinator Patrick Toney. Napier has $7.5 million allocated for full-time assistants. Last year’s on-field staff under Dan Mullen earned around $6.1 million, though defensive coordinator Todd Grantham was among the nation’s highest-paid coordinators at $1.8 million.

HIRINGS ANNOUNCED COACH SALARY
Co-DC/safeties
Patrick Toney
$1 million
RBs/Assistant head coach
Jabbar Juluke
$450,000
WRs
Keary Colbert
$500,000
Assistant offensive line
Darnell Stapleton
$250,000
CBs/Assistant head coach
Corey Raymond
$725,000
TARGETED HIRINGS
COACH
PROJECTED SALARY
Offensive line
Rob Sale (Giants)
$1 million
Defensive line
Eric Henderson (Rams)
$1 million
Co-DC/Inside linebackers
Karl Scott (Vikings)
$1 million
Outside linebackers
Chris Rumph (Bears)
$850,000
Tight ends
William Peagler (Michigan State)
$425,000
The hirings would combine championship pedigree, recruiting chops and in most cases, familiarity with Napier at previous stops.

Rumph, 50, spent three seasons as defensive line coach at Florida under Jim McElwain and was elevated to interim defensive coordinator at the end of the 2017 season following McElwain’s firing.

He was a part of back-to-back national championship teams at Alabama in 2011 and 2012, working alongside Napier the first year. Rumph also coached at Clemson, Tennessee and Texas during his 18 college coaching seasons, a career that has produced 25 NFL draft picks, including three first-rounders.

Scott, 36, in this first season overseeing the Vikings’ defensive backs, has 14 years in college coaching, most recently three at Alabama in which the Tide went 38-3 and won the 2020 national championship.


Defensive line coach Eric Henderson has received great reviews from Rams coach Sean McVay and All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald. (Kirby Lee / USA Today)
Henderson, 38, is in his fifth NFL season and third with the Rams as a defensive line coach. During 2020, Rams head coach Sean McVay described Henderson as “a future star” months before promoting him to game coordinator.

“You like everything about the guy. He has great energy, he has great command,” McVay said. “His development and what he’s done with our D-line each of the last couple of years that has been outstanding.”

Aaron Donald won his third NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award under Henderson in 2020, crediting the assistant’s communication style and confidence to deliver hard coaching to superstar players. “When you’ve got a coach like that,” Donald said, “you just sit and listen and you try to keep what you’ve been doing but also add what he’s trying to teach me and make me that much better.”

A native of New Orleans, “Henny” set the Georgia Tech career record with 59.5 tackles for loss before spending three seasons migrating between the Bengals’ roster and practice squad. His college coaching experience included two seasons as a grad assistant at Oklahoma State and one year as the defensive line coach at UT-San Antonio before jumping into the NFL with the Los Angeles Chargers.

Sale, 42, now in his first season with the NFL Giants, coached under Napier for three seasons at Louisiana. Prior to that, he had one-year stints as the offensive line coach at Georgia, Louisiana-Monroe and Arizona State after spending five years under Nick Saban at Alabama as an offensive analyst and strength and conditioning assistant.

Sale was a three-year starter on the interior offensive line at LSU.

Peagler has coached running backs at Michigan State the past two seasons and coached Doak Walker Award winner Kenneth Walker III this season. He came with Mel Tucker from Colorado, where he served as offensive director of quality control. Peagler worked with Napier as director of player personnel at Louisiana in 2018 and was a grad assistant working with Georgia’s offensive line during the 2017 run to the CFP final

Best of luck to him.

Classy kid

Announced he's transferring today.

Kind of odd really. I thought he would transfer a couple of years ago and him transferring and not jumping to the NFL is also a surprise.

He wouldn't be a high pick by any means but I've seen stranger decisions made by less talented players before.

Napier Tabs William Peagler as Tight Ends Coach

Peagler spent the last two seasons at Michigan State



GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Florida head football coach Billy Napier announced Friday that William Peagler will join his staff as an assistant, coaching the tight ends.



Peagler will head to Gainesville after spending two seasons as Michigan State's running backs coach, helping the Spartans finish the 2021 regular season with a 10-2 record and reach their third New Year's Six Bowl. Peagler and MSU will face Pittsburgh in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 30.



Prior to Michigan State, Peagler was the director of quality control for the offense in 2019 at Colorado.



Peagler spent the 2018 season as Louisiana's director of player personnel and quality control coordinator, helping the Ragin' Cajuns recruit the No. 1 class in the Sun Belt Conference that year.



Prior to Louisiana, he served as a graduate assistant at Georgia during the Bulldogs' run to the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2017. Peagler worked with NFL first-rounder Isaiah Wynn, who earned first-team All-SEC honors as an offensive tackle that year.



In Athens, Peagler was also part of the staff that signed the nation's consensus top recruiting class for 2018.



Peagler spent the 2016 season at Minnesota, where he served as an assistant in quality control for the offense. Prior to that, he was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Olive Branch High School in Mississippi in 2015, and the run game coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Coffeyville Community College in 2014.



Peagler spent the 2011-13 seasons at Louisiana. He initially joined the Ragin' Cajuns staff as an offensive quality control assistant and then was an offensive graduate assistant coach in his final two years there. UL won the New Orleans Bowl all three seasons he was on the staff.



A 2010 Clemson graduate, Peagler began his coaching career as student assistant for the Tigers from 2006-09 and later as the tight ends coach at Valdosta State for the 2010 season.

First and 10 from the 25 we false start. Ball placed on the 20. Next play UCF jumps offsides. Free play Emory runs to the 28. Why decline for 2 and 7 vs 1st and 10? I'd take the extra down over 3 lousy yards.

Why would we accept 2 and 7?

She looks soooo much better in Orange and Blue anyway.



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They will probably call a very tight game, particularly for targeting.

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.