Florida hires Louisiana's Billy Napier as new Head Football Coach (11/28/2021) ***EDIT: and fired on 10/19/2025***

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With State Penn and the Gators jobs opening up, who the heck do these programs think they are going to get? I mean, proven winners. Think they can snipe Lanning from duck money or something like that? Take a chance on the Indiana coach? Lane is not your answer for sure so I am just wondering the strategy of where to find the best coach for their programs.

Using the list you just posted, 5 of the top 7 had no HC experience when they were hired

Results seem to suggest identifying specific characteristics and values over purely experience and outcomes.

Can you find the NEXT Lanning, Day, Freeman, etc.? And that's probably even harder than the questions you're asking
 
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Might just be rumors but it’s going around that Florida is making moves behind the scenes to Can Billy by the end of this week.

Other sites are speculating on it anyway and articles are being written.

I know this name gets thrown around every time there is a big job opening but sounds like Kiffin is high on the list of names for a replacement.
I heard his name come up last week in relation to the Florida job. My understanding is, when Billy gets canned (it’s not “if” any longer) the first person that Stricklin will target is Lane.
 
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To me Napier and norvell are basically the same kind of hires in that you had major programs jump on a G5 coach that was winning at a high rate but never considered the competition and the advantages of that program compared to their peers.

I think we will see more Kiffin and Elko career paths and less of the Norvell and Napier ones going forward
 
Billy’s press interview after beating MSU honestly sounded like a man saying goodbye to his family as they gathered around his deathbed.
 
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