A couple things to this….
1. Winning 7 games in year 3 is a criminally low bar for a UF coach. But I will agree that, unfortunately, that would leave us stuck with SunBelt Billy for at least part of 2025.
2. As nice as Lagway and McCray are, the 16th rated class in year 3 is unacceptable. It is ONE spot higher than Elko’s TRANSITION class at TAMU. And on top of that, Lagway and McCray aside, his recruiting is not good enough to lead to any sort of real success. We are last in the state (of big 3) and 8th in the SEC (with TAMU only one spot behind). So we are in the bottom half of the conference in recruiting, that will not work, especially without divisions.
3. His coaching staff remains subpar and the addition of the Tulane DL coach is not fixing that. At the end of the day Billy is Scott Frost, couldn’t get away from his G5 ties and this will end the same as Frost did at Nebraska. You can only fall further behind the competition each year until it catches up with you.