Is it wrong for Billy Napier to take kids away from Louisiana?

[Cajun_RAP53]

It's big boy football now. Either get on or get out the way. Mid majors will be a farm system. It sucks but it's done and it ain't ever going back to what it was.

ALL of it is a farm system now. This will have an effect on D1 P5 down to JUCO and HS football.


Geaux Cajuns

[covcaj]

It's big boy football now. Either get on or get out the way. Mid majors will be a farm system. It sucks but it's done and it ain't ever going back to what it was.

I think there will be change, driven in part by the "big boy" coaches. Saban and Smart are already on record stating that changes need to be made.

[Crowley Cajun]

It is what it is. Done openly now. And Florida will fuss when Coach Nap moves on to Alabama. The portal taketh and giveth. And with NIL $$, G5s will be on the giving end.

And the state of Alabama is currently trying to reverse a law to loosen the restrictions on NIL. Lol.

[SlickRick]

But the point is that UL hired him and gave him a chance. While being paid by UL he developed relationships and gathered inside information about players. He did that on our dime. Although legal, I believe it is immoral to use this information against your former benefactor. This is not the cULture that CBN preached for 4 years.

This!

[GreatestStory]

Serious question: Had Napier stayed here, how many players do y’all think we would we have lost to the portal?

With our lack of NIL money to compete with bigger programs, surely we couldn’t have kept them all locked down. How much influence would Napier have had to convince them to stay here and not chase the NIL money?

GEAUX CAJUNS

[Jacob81]

It’s my understanding that there will be work, or at least hours, involved in these NIL deals. QB1 can’t get $50,000 to do a local car commercial if the going rate it $5,000. He would have to do 10 commercials to get $50,000.

[KajunKrazy]

https://m.facebook.com/1010xl/videos...f=sharing&_rdr

This from a local Jacksonville sports radio station.

Nothing that Napier has done I would classify as “wrong” as far as players and staff goes. Every indication from information I gathered is that billy went back on his word in what he told Doc and Des, that’s not only wrong, but lacks character on his part as well. If he’d been straight forward and said, hey doc when I leave here I’m taking the majority of the staff and a few players I feel are SEC talents, then you couldn’t fault him one bit for being honest.

[SlickRick]

Nothing that Napier has done I would classify as “wrong” as far as players and staff goes. Every indication from information I gathered is that billy went back on his word in what he told Doc and Des, that’s not only wrong, but lacks character on his part as well. If he’d been straight forward and said, hey doc when I leave here I’m taking the majority of the staff and a few players I feel are SEC talents, then you couldn’t fault him one bit for being honest.

That's a good point!

[ManAboutTown]

But you'd be fine if Napier was still here and he'd be plucking new players from LSU, Florida, Texas, Mississippi etc. to come play here right ?

The NCAA created this monster. Not Billy Napier and not any other coach. They paying the man millions. He has one job. WIN. Any way he has to do it. Get over it.

Get over yourself, troll.

[JayWalker]

The answer is yes and no.

All's fair in love, war and booray.

If the young man is in the portal, he's fair game. If he enerted the portal in hopes he's get to go with Billy, he's fair game.

However, if there was any contact, direct or indirect, with the student athlete before entering the portal, that's tampering and it's a no no.

I know there are many who believe that occurred. But it's hard as hell to prove.

I don't convict without solid evidence. Neither does the NCAA.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Don’t need to convict to believe. There’s many criminals that I’d vote not guilty while believing they actually did the crime. I’d never hire that not guilty person. Yes, I realize I could be wrong about that applicant

[ZoomZoom]

The answer is yes and no.

All's fair in love, war and booray.

If the young man is in the portal, he's fair game. If he enerted the portal in hopes he's get to go with Billy, he's fair game.

However, if there was any contact, direct or indirect, with the student athlete before entering the portal, that's tampering and it's a no no.

I know there are many who believe that occurred. But it's hard as hell to prove.

I don't convict without solid evidence. Neither does the NCAA.

Not convicting, but the old saying, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

I’m ok with the players. I’m not ok with the utter gutting of our staff. The only bright side is they’ll follow him to Alabama in a few years.