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Win or lose Saturday, it is a full scale dilemma for the Gators
(Photo by Chris Spears) The usual intrigue who wins and who loses will take a backseat to what happens next for the Florida Gators (2-4, 1-2 SEC). Among the rumors and innuendo swirling around head coach Billy Napier is one that says win or lose against Mississippi State (4-2, 0-2 SEC) Napier will have coached his last game as the UF coach when the scoreboard clocks strike zero. There is no mistaking the deep hole in which Billy Napier finds himself. Rather than the expecte


Napier Has Run Out Of Time And Calendar Pages. The End Is Here.
GatorBait has learned that “all the big money people met” at Spurrier’s Gridiron Grille midweek and “the money’s there” to move forward. That likely means a $21M-plus buyout, or some negotiated form of it.


Eddie Gilley Blog: Tough Decisions Don’t Always Go Your Way
To be honest, if DJ Lagway had thrown a decent crossing route pass, it could have been a totally different outcome. There is a difference in being confident and being reckless.


Napier on the teleconference: A lot of words that mean nothing
(Photo by Chris Spears) Lost in the shuffle of rumors, speculation and lack of anything definitive about the status of Billy Napier there is a football game to be played Saturday (4:15 p.m., SEC Network) in The Swamp. Despite the distraction of Napier’s employment status beyond Saturday evening, the Gators (2-4, 1-2 SEC) are 9.5-point favorites to beat Mississippi State (4-2, 0-2 SEC). On a day that Matt Hayes of USA Today reported that Florida athletic director Scott Stri


New season, higher expectations but Golden, Gators are ready
( Photo by Chris Spears) There isn’t a hint of panic in Todd Golden. Most coaches would be borderline apoplectic if they lost Walter Clayton Jr., Will Richard and Alijah Martin to the NBA after a brilliant run to the NCAA championship. Not Golden. Now, that’s not saying it didn’t hit him hard what he was losing but that lasted about a week. At first he “ stressed about making sure you can bring the guys back that helped you get to that point.” That was his four front court


Gator Football: The Same Old Story. 'It's What We Sign Up For' -- Napier
The heat is on Napier and his staff to right the ship as the fourth-year head coach of the Gators sits at 21-23 in his tenure.


Napier's Monday press conference felt extremely subdued
(Photo by Chris Spears) Something was missing Monday afternoon. Florida’s head football coach was there in person at The Heavener Center, answering questions as he always does on Monday during football season, but it was different. Subdued. That’s probably the best way to describe Billy Napier’s demeanor. It was as if he checked his energy at the door when he arrived more than 20 minutes late for a press conference that was scheduled to begin at 11:45. He entered the room q


Rumors fly that Napier's Florida coaching career is all but over
(Photo by Chris Spears) “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” A guy named Billy – Shakespeare not Napier – wrote that line for Act II, Scene II of “Romeo and Juliet.” College football was still three centuries in the making when Shakespeare penned those words but they do sound a lot like a coaching epitaph, don’t they? Rumors swirl that prominent University of Florida boosters have raised the more than $21 million it will take to tell Billy Napier that he has a headstart on retir


Gator Football: It’s The Firing Season. Who’s Next? (Ho Hum!)
And seeing that things are Not So Happy In Happy Valley these days after the sudden axing of James Franklin by Penn State, there is an apparent trend toward that sort of thing.


Post Game Thoughts: Florida (2-4, 1-2) v. Texas A&M Aggies (6-0, 3-0)
Florida starts fast but sputters again as Napier falls to 0-14 against ranked teams on the road where a questionable fourth down call...


Fourth down discretion would have been the better part of valor
(Photo by Chris Spears) It seemed like a good idea at the moment, that decision Billy Napier made with less than 13 minutes left in the...


A&M was too good, but it's time to raise expectations for Gators
By Carlton Reese GatorBait Media Despite falling at Texas A&M, with a healthy D.J. Lagway there should be high expectations the rest of...
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