Florida head coach Billy Napier was on the new seat heading into the 2024 season.
And now?
He is two video games in and 1-2 after dropping a sport, 33-20, to Texas A&M at “The Swamp.”
Florida has regarded dangerous and Napier’s head teaching job has been uninspiring to this point, to say the least. It has been so dangerous that there are main boosters who’ve reportedly already ponied up the cash it will take to fireplace Napier and purchase him out of his contract.
Chatting with the media on Monday, although, the embattled head coach revealed that he is aware of he cannot management any of that, and he is merely attempting to mannequin the correct mindset to his younger and impressionable gamers.
“These are all hypothetical situations. I believe for me, I’m gonna attempt to mannequin what I’d count on from our gamers and a few of these issues I simply talked about, I believe that’s the entire secret is that as an entire workers and all through the group, we now have to mannequin what we might count on from the gamers and need from the gamers. And that, for me, is complete concentrate on the subsequent alternative to enhance,” Napier told the media (h/t On3).
“We are able to’t dwell within the shoulda-coulda-woulda, if-then, all that. I believe in the end, we’ve obtained an obligation to the gamers and our management on the college to do our greatest to play properly this week. It’s all we will management. The rest is a waste of time.”
Whereas that is sturdy speak from Napier and it is most likely what you wish to hear from a head coach who’s actually preventing for his job, the very fact of the matter is that school soccer at all times has been huge enterprise, and a 1-2 begin and 12-16 document since taking on at Florida is bat enterprise — particularly in Gainesville.
Napier can discuss accountability and mindset all he desires, however he isn’t a motivational speaker, he is an SEC soccer coach. On the finish of the day, his win/loss document is all that may matter for the Gators, and there do not seem like many extra winnable video games left on the schedule.
If he survives the season, there is a purpose probability Napier will not win two or three video games. It beginning to sound like he most likely will not find yourself getting that far, although.
