Billy Napier from Florida to JMU

[ecajuns]

Des was SBC coach of the year last year. He has proven to be a great hire especially at the moment of a monumental shift in college athletics and the NIL issues.

[ULGrad@HOU]

It is final.

Napier left Des here. Maggard listened to Napier instead of doing a national search. It was a terrible decision to hire a HC with no college HC experience mainly because we were at the top of the G5 at the time in 2021. Des has had to learn on the job for these last 4 years and it has been painful to watch. Still hoping Des can get this bowl win and 2026 we can get to a SBC championship and win that thing.

I believe Napier may have supported Des to be HC, but I believe it was all Maggard and T-Joe that thought putting a homegrown inexperienced, unmotivating, weak-recruiting, former player would somehow be successful. But, they were wrong, like many warned from the beginning.

[ULGrad@HOU]

Des was SBC coach of the year last year. He has proven to be a great hire especially at the moment of a monumental shift in college athletics and the NIL issues.

Last year has shown to be a fluke year, 1 out of 4 is 25%. You know what grade 25% is?

[Turbine]

Des was SBC coach of the year last year. He has proven to be a great hire especially at the moment of a monumental shift in college athletics and the NIL issues.

Desormeaux likely would have gone 11-1 this year if he had another year with Wooldridge.

Three inexperienced QB's to start the year really took its toll.

Hitting lightening in a bottle with Winfield was very fortunate.

[CajunVic]

Last year has shown to be a fluke year, 1 out of 4 is 25%. You know what grade 25% is?

and I guess having to recover from Napier and others raiding pretty much all of the NFL caliber talent on the roster in year one was part of the FLUKE also

you folks are something else with your Napier is God syndrome - except when what he says goes against your agenda

[CajunVic]

Desormeaux likely would have gone 11-1 this year if he had another year with Wooldridge.

Three inexperienced QB's to start the year really took its toll.

Hitting lightening in a bottle with Winfield was very fortunate.

+1

[ULGrad@HOU]

Desormeaux likely would have gone 11-1 this year if he had another year with Wooldridge.

Three inexperienced QB's to start the year really took its toll.

Hitting lightening in a bottle with Winfield was very fortunate.

Complete speculation, I don't know why you guys do that. Wooldridge was a very good QB, and transferred here under Napier. You could see he had very good talent from the beginning. The lack of a running game and a good defense was a huge part of the challenges faced by this team. Both need improvement.

[CajunVic]

Complete speculation, I don't know why you guys do that. Wooldridge was a very good QB, and transferred here under Napier. You could see he had very good talent from the beginning. The lack of a running game and a good defense was a huge part of the challenges faced by this team. Both need improvement.

like what you have posted is NOT complete speculation - pot meet kettle

[Turbine]

Complete speculation, I don't know why you guys do that. Wooldridge was a very good QB, and transferred here under Napier. You could see he had very good talent from the beginning. The lack of a running game and a good defense was a huge part of the challenges faced by this team. Both need improvement.

Do you realize how close this team is from being 11-1 right now as we type?

Very close, very doable with very few adjustments. Moments and real time decisions you can point to.

An experienced QB would have made all the difference in spite of other shortcomings.

[HoustonCajun]

Is the Napier deal final or is this just speculation.

Napier reportedly has a 5 year deal with JMU but financials have not yet been disclosed.