BREAKING: UF Head Coach Billy Napier announces resignation and departure from Team Florida Gators, another significant issue for the team..
BREAKING: UF Head Coach Billy Napier announces resignation and departure from Team Florida Gators, another significant issue for the team..
BREAKING: UF Head Coach Billy Napier announces resignation and departure from Team Florida Gators, another significant issue for the team..
So, Billy Napier. I’ve spent time exhaustively defending your character as a man, and now it’s time for you to do something for me. Just step down.
Yes, I’m asking you to save face and just quit (which you’ve arguably already done in an unofficial capacity). Negotiate a reduced buyout for yourself, and step down with the grain-of-sand-sized shred of grace that you still have left. Don’t force the boosters to pony up every penny of that ridiculous buyout that Florida AD Scott Stricklin was dumb enough to agree to. You know you’ve done a historically bad job here, and the only way you can depart with even the most microscopic remnants of dignity is to volunteer to surrender your title as the Gators’ head coach, and just take a portion of that obscene $25.6 million buyout that saves the administration from the uncomfortable position of having to fire what they– and I, too– deem to be a good guy.
If you can’t live on $10 million to sit on your couch and not do anything, then you’re even more greedy than I thought. I don’t want to remember you that way. I spent a lot of time defending you as a good man who just didn’t have it between the ears, but if you can’t meet the Florida brass halfway here, that’s going out the window as well.
In any case, I feel pretty confident in saying that, one way or another, this is done. It’s a matter of mere semantics now.
The search for a new coach has to start immediately, and I’d imagine it will. The name most people seem to keep bringing up is Lane Kiffin. That’s the way-too-early lowdown on where things stand. A lot of details need to be worked out, such as his buyout from Ole Miss, and the fine print of his contract will have to include incentives, but that’s just a basic starting point of where we are.
And of course, the first step that precedes any of that is an official word that Billy Napier has been fired.
But it’s not a matter of if that’s going to happen anymore. It’s a matter of when.
