Why is #15 still out there?
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He's scared of Kirby and sure as hell aint making no money. Throwing Kitna out there cant be any worse.
Agree - Plus he's inaccurate on many of his throws. I think there were 4 overthrows today on passes that could have been easily completed.
Yes we won’t get anywhere with him as the QB. If Napier hitches himself to AR then he won’t make it either.
Still hoping he can turn it around but AR isn't good at reading the field so far and doesn't have good touch on his passes a lot of the time.
Nick,
The reason Kitna (or who ever) is "green" is because Napier won't play anybody else.
AR a great athlete - but not a thinking QB; Stetson Bennet has less physical talent - but more QB smarts.
Despite all the horse pucky about his potential; he's a heisman candidate, a mock draft 1st round NFL pick, yada, yada, yada - Napier can't win with AR - but he won't play anyone else.
Despite all the foolishness about "Scared money won't make money", Napier is too scared to play another QB.
If he loses (again) with AR - he has a built in excuse - he (AR) is the best QB on the team & Napier won't be ripped for not developing / coaching the other QBs.
Miller a waste of a scholly; even if he was healthy he wouldn't get any snaps.
Kitna can't be any worse & he will be here next year.
The sooner AR leaves, the better off we will be.
Like most of the posters on this board, I agree that we need an OC & a DC will high level (SEC, B1G, or NFL) experience !
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We need a head coach who wasn't in the Sun Belt last year.
Didn't stop Mullen from giving AR his first start against UGA last year.....
Also, Trask was technically "green" when he got his number called in a hostile environment and with a deep hole to climb out of.
If you don't want to play somebody "green" because you think the pressure might be too much for him...and would rather just accept the loss as the likely outcome than that's called '"playing scared". They gotta pull up their big boy pants and play, not be coddled like a mother hen.
its not that he was in the Sun belt, its that he thought he could do things the same in the SEC
Talent isnt the same and the game is so much faster in the SEC
So lame and makes no sense. Where did Urban Meyer and Steve Spurrier come from before they got the UF job?
i agree, nothing wrong with hiring a G5 coach, but I think its pretty obvious some changes are going to have to happen. HC, OC, QBC is far too much for anyone in the SEC
I don’t disagree that maybe changes need to be made or at least considered. But it has nothing to do with what conference he came from. Meyer came from a G5 school at the time and Spurrier came from Duke. Not exactly power house programs or conferences. We tried the hire of a coach that was overachieving at an SEC program (Mullen) and that didn’t work out either.
I would like to see the offense with a maybe a more accurate and better QB. There are WRs open that are being missed and our WR core is very average.
AR is a dual threat QB minus the dual. If he doesn't run then our offense is not effective. Several times tonight he could just take off and pick up big chunks of yards. He is playing scared like he doesn't want to get hurt.
as I said I agree about where he came from
but even at ULL his passing scheme is elementary and he relies on better talent running the ball. We are years from having a talent advantage, so how does he win enough to keep his job without change in other areas?
And how long until he has a QB and WR to change the issues? Fair or not we both know coaches have a very short window.
we are going to have to fight to be bowl eligible. And Billy inherited a mess. But we both know he has to be winning by year 3 and right now I wonder how he does that without staff and play calling changes
There was a reply highlight shown on CBS of Richardson where he missed one of his last couple throws…
his demeanor in the replay was tremendously odd…kind of smiley and goofy…like…”of course I missed that throw.” Then he hits the next one. Somebody needs to get inside his head and fix him.
his demeanor in the replay was tremendously odd…kind of smiley and goofy…like…”of course I missed that throw.” Then he hits the next one. Somebody needs to get inside his head and fix him.
You can’t fix his accuracy issues. It isn’t going to happen. He’s never gonna have a good completion percentage.
Somewhere out there, deep in the interwebs is a UGA internet page where a fan probably doubted Stetson Bennett and him being green. Now look.
Makes perfect sense Paco. Maybe he can wear three hats and make it work at ULL. It's not going to work here. Spurrier was an offensive genius so don't even mention him in the same breath as Napier. The guy that won 2 rings at Florida had an offensive coordinator and so does that guy at Bama that has 5.
Or maybe you like being mediocre.
Lame indeed.
If I didn't know there had been a coaching change, I wouldn't be able to tell from the product on the field. Same retarded play calling, same shitty defense. Defense still doesn't know where to line up, it's like Grantham never left. I've been watching garbage football since Tebow left. I'm over giving the new guy a chance. Show me something or go away.
My fear is that nobody cares about this job anymore. We are quickly becoming that school out west and it's embarassing.
My fear is that nobody cares about this job anymore. We are quickly becoming that school out west and it's embarassing.
"Nobody cares about this job anymore"
UF will always be a lucrative opportunity, but who it's lucrative to isn't what it once was. The "shine" of it has dulled to the point that we need to strike lightning in a battle for a coaching hire for a little-known, "little guy" or an assistant.....which is why we hired Napier.
Even if we put aside our dislike of Kiffin and pursued him as a HC, there's no way he would give up his gig at Ole Miss to come here. We would argue against it, but he would view UF as a step down. We've won the East like....once(?)....in 14 years and the challenge for it looks more difficult yearly as teams like UK and UT are getting more competitive.
I'm not giving up on Napier untill I see what he does in the off season, regarding coaching staff. However, my optimism for him making any changes along those lines is dim as well.
Remember when Tennessee had 35 players leave via the transfer portal after the 2020 season (3-7) and with graduations and other attrition Josh Heupel had to basically start from scratch to build a program that was totally decimated? Yet in 2 years look how far they've come.
Go back and re-read your post. All it said was “Don’t hire a coach from a G5 conference”. You provided nothing else other than that. Add more content next time. Never said Napier was Spurrier or Meyer. Those 2 are Hall of Famers. But usually the natural progression of a coach is they have to start somewhere generally in a lower conference and work their way up.
Not really sure what to think now. About the only thing that seems to be improving a lot is the turnovers have been cut down. Don't see much difference with field vision as far as seeing open guys that werent the primary option. Also just curious if it's the coaches pressing him not to run or if that is him. That 3rd quarter him finally keeping the ball some opened things up for the RBs against that defense.
He’s a very inaccurate passer. That isn’t changing. He doesn’t know how to run the read option. In fact all his good runs come off of passing plays when he scrambles around. He doesn’t run well on called runs or designed runs. He doesn’t pick the correct holes and he runs tentatively. The best thing for UF is that he isn’t here next year IMO.
If he were to transfer to another school, he would likely immediately begin to put up heisman-like stats.
It is a fallacy that coaches need years of recruiting classes to be competitive in today’s college football. If you are a good coach, you can turn things around very quickly. We have seen tons of examples of that around the country and even here at Florida.
sadgator understands the need to bring in better players (and we do need to do that)…but if you are good, you can adapt to what you have and be successful.
That said, sadgator never thought Heupel would be as good as he is at UT. His system at UCF did not have as much success. He seems to have tweaked the use of the tempo a bit, and it has made a big difference.
But why Paco? He ran the very small package he had as the spark plug and garbage time guy very well. Did he collapse under the pressure of being starter, or is the new playbook too much for him? His giant step backwards is inexplicable, unless we all got it wrong.
Giant step backwards? He wasn’t a very good passer last year either. I think it is safe to say he’s not exactly the mentally toughest player either.
Yep if he doesn't make a big change at the end you are probably right. It looks like he may be like Driskel and cant process things fast enough on those read plays.
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