Billy Napier path out of Florida

[CrazyCajun]

This is a point I've made many times on RR. But... 2023 is a different animal. Bottom 20 SOS and you go 6-6 with superior personnel? Billy went 11-3 in year 2 with 30 fewer scholarships, a SOS ranked in the top 80 and a sophomore QB.

All of this is postmortem. If you watched the games, which I'm sure you did, the issues are plain and clear.

Wasn’t really referring to this year, more that our championship team fell just right in benefit of the extra year and before the transfer and not sit rule changed. It would have been Interesting to see how all those close games played out under Napier without all those hit recruits in their 5th and 6th years. It would have been interesting to see if he could have kept all those guys here for leaving for the money. A lot is assumed that everything would have been the same with Napier still here, he was facing a lot of the same challenges Mike did, not as many but a lot of the massive player turnover was coming regardless.

[JMV JustMyView]

Not every team is senior laden when it happened, some are benefiting now if they were young. Some benefited last year. The 2020 team was a veteran team already, then all got an extra year. Levi would have been gone, most of the o-line, a lot of the defense. Not everyone’s biggest benefit was that following year.

That is a fair accessment.

[ManAboutTown]

Wasn’t really referring to this year, more that our championship team fell just right in benefit of the extra year and before the transfer and not sit rule changed. It would have been Interesting to see how all those close games played out under Napier without all those hit recruits in their 5th and 6th years. It would have been interesting to see if he could have kept all those guys here for leaving for the money. A lot is assumed that everything would have been the same with Napier still here, he was facing a lot of the same challenges Mike did, not as many but a lot of the massive player turnover was coming regardless.

Agree. Almost impossible to compare in many ways.

[zephyr]

That is a fair accessment.

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[Turbine]

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[JamesTheJeweler]

Not every team is senior laden when it happened, some are benefiting now if they were young. Some benefited last year. The 2020 team was a veteran team already, then all got an extra year. Levi would have been gone, most of the o-line, a lot of the defense. Not everyone’s biggest benefit was that following year.

The excuses keep going and going and going and going and........

[ZoomZoom]

The excuses keep going and going and going and going and........

Other than stick sports, yup, SOP.

Bottom line, Napier set the bar. He finally did what the vast majority of the fan base wanted. Bring home a championship and fully understanding he’d probably be gone. He will be the measuring stick until someone matches the accomplishment.

Regardless of circumstances, it sucks being next man up behind a coach that sets the program’s bar. Expectations.

[jaxmc1023]

The parallels between the current state of the Cajuns and the Saints are eerie..

Ownership that couldn't give a s***

Upper management that doesn't seem to mind mediocrity

Coaches that are GROSSLY out of their depths

Players that are looking for any exit door they can find

[JamesTheJeweler]

Wasn’t really referring to this year, more that our championship team fell just right in benefit of the extra year and before the transfer and not sit rule changed. It would have been Interesting to see how all those close games played out under Napier without all those hit recruits in their 5th and 6th years. It would have been interesting to see if he could have kept all those guys here for leaving for the money. A lot is assumed that everything would have been the same with Napier still here, he was facing a lot of the same challenges Mike did, not as many but a lot of the massive player turnover was coming regardless.

Yeah, and every team in the country also had the same benefit of having extra years, and blah blah blah. Why do we continually do this? Every team that we beat, had the same advantage of players with extra year. It's a wash. It's weak excuses and delusional justification.

[CrazyCajun]

Yeah, and every team in the country also had the same benefit of having extra years, and blah blah blah. Why do we continually do this? Every team that we beat, had the same advantage of players with extra year. It's a wash. It's weak excuses and delusional justification.

Not my fault if you aren’t intelligent enough to see that not every team has max benefit at the same time. Why are you even still here? A Cajun fan I mean? It’s clear everything and everyone involved with this athletic program Make you miserable, why do you keep doing this? You have such an axe against to grind against Dez you’re too dumb to see that both post were about Billy, not Mike or making excuses for Mike. Everyone wants to act like Billy walks on water, he doesn’t. Pretty good chance without covid, Billy leaves here without a championship, or is still here without one. Without covid we don’t even play Iowa state, In an empty stadium at that. Covid helped Billy a lot. Not to mention almost all these coaches here now were here with Billy but now they just a know nothing useless coaches? Mike had a rebuild, when you lose 45 guys off a roster in 1 year, that’s a rebuild