Coach Napier's EXit

[Turbine]

Bobby Pascal and Jesse Evans left for jobs they thought were better.

[RaginDave]

Jerry Simmons, J. Kelley Hall, Yvette Girouard and now Billy Napier are the only head coaches in my lifetime to leave UL for a better position.

Football!!!! Yes, this is the first time.

[OrlandeauxCajun]

Exactly, just the nature of the job. Even OU lost their coach, and is looking. It can happen anywhere, anytime. We need to press on.

Good luck to you Coach Napier, we enjoyed the success and the pride you gave the UL Ragin Cajun Football program.

No one wants to work for the dumpster fire down the street, they will continue having a rough time finding someone, and I’m loving every minute of it. Geaux Louisiana.

[KajunKrazy]

No one wants to work for the dumpster fire down the street, they will continue having a rough time finding someone, and I’m loving every minute of it. Geaux Louisiana.

It's funny how they like to tell you it is a top 3 or 4 job in college football but the always hire their 6th or 7th choice.

[DieHard 1280]

Waiting for some guesses of new guy!!!

We have a thread for that, Boomer.

[Duckster]

Who'd have thought Oklahoma becoming a stepping stone? Believe the Sooner fanbase feeling much maligned today losing their coach. Its a bummer losing CBN, but getting a fourth year out of his program was a big deal at least it was to me. So we can celebrate him. The Sooners won't be celebrating Riley that's for sure.

[CajunT]

App has a long history of winning, we don't. They have a hard core fan base, we don't. Houston is in a mega city with a billionaire benefactor, we don't.

We would need to stay in the top 25, like Boise did to really have a shot at moving on from the G5. Saying and believing Lsu is our rival is what's needed. CBN staying was likely out last chance. He was our unicorn. That's how I see it. And, I still think it's ____ty to announce before our biggest game.

Yet none of them had coaches stay 10 years. The Frank Beamer model is something of the past unless your Saban, Dabo and a few others.

Appalachian State has hired to a system. Boise State hired to their system. We need to hire someone that comes from the same model and uses the same processes. We have recruited athletes to play in that system. It won't be easy, but it's a task that Dr. Maggard can handle.

[moorecajun]

Yet none of them had coaches stay 10 years. The Frank Beamer model is something of the past unless your Saban, Dabo and a few others.

Appalachian State has hired to a system. Boise State hired to their system. We need to hire someone that comes from the same model and uses the same processes. We have recruited athletes to play in that system. It won't be easy, but it's a task that Dr. Maggard can handle.

Absolutely!

[Cajun90]

We need to hire someone that comes from the same model and uses the same processes. We have recruited athletes to play in that system.

And I will be shocked (and upset) if we don't do just that. Hiring a coach just based on prior success and reputation reminds me of the financial disclosures you see all the time - Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

[Duckster]

Yet none of them had coaches stay 10 years. The Frank Beamer model is something of the past unless your Saban, Dabo and a few others.

Appalachian State has hired to a system. Boise State hired to their system. We need to hire someone that comes from the same model and uses the same processes. We have recruited athletes to play in that system. It won't be easy, but it's a task that Dr. Maggard can handle.

Gary Patterson, TCU also fits that description. Those guys are needles in the haystack. Chris Peterson at Boise for seven years was a gift to them. No one in G5 can count on a very successful football coach more than 3 to 4 years before they are poached. Anything more is gravy. Agree 100%, on aligning hiring criteria with our current system then building from there.

[Cajunrunner]

And, I still think it's ____ty to announce before our biggest game.

I'm sure Billy Napier didn't have a choice on this last part. While I don't know the man personally, I'm sure he'd rather have as few distractions as possible before this weekend.

However, it's very likely Florida's big boosters were demanding an announcement to know their money and program would be placed in good hands, and Florida's administration probably told Coach Napier if he didn't want it announced this week, then they'd go after someone who had no problem with it.

Billy Napier wasn't going to turn down that opportunity.

[Cajun90]

I'm sure Billy Napier didn't have a choice on this last part. While I don't know the man personally, I'm sure he'd rather have as few distractions as possible before this weekend.

However, it's very likely Florida's big boosters were demanding an announcement to know their money and program would be placed in good hands, and Florida's administration probably told Coach Napier if he didn't want it announced this week, then they'd go after someone who had no problem with it.

Billy Napier wasn't going to turn down that opportunity.

No doubt. Schools do NOT like waiting to announce. The AD at Alabama tried to put Saban on a plane and go back to Bama with him the same day he agreed to leave the Dolphins and coach Bama. It was apparently a difficult decision to allow Sabin to sleep on it overnight and head to Tuscalossa the next morning instead.

I don't have an issue with how it was handled. I believe there are now much fewer distractions than there would have been otherwise.