@@jamesgray6421 I disagree. He's a large part why the Gators are in this situation due to lack of recruiting although Napier has a lot blame also. Hes also the genius that thought Feleipe Franks was better than Kyle Trask till Franks got injured and Trask had to take over. It seemed to me Mullen checked out towards the end.
1. Georgia becoming a powerhouse 2. Bad recruiting (relative) 3. Piss poor coaching My hot take: if Colorado has a decent year (6+ wins), I could see Deion taking the Florida job (more as a recruiting hire and to spite FSU).
The biggest thing is Urban Meyer was an elite recruiter. Not only did he keep a lot of in state talent but he built some good pipeline states to recruit. Like the equivalent of how everyone wants to either go to Bama or Georgia
Meyer won the 2 national championships with mainly Ron Zooks recruits In the Zook era talent wasn't the issue it was coaching That's the reason why we hired Meyer
Max Brown wasn’t gonna play before Lagway and he knew that, Douglas was hurt all year and knew young guys would catch up and take over. Trevor claimed to be RB2 because he was and couldn’t pass block. The scheme is fine…the play calling was off at times but they scored points, opened up the passing mid way through the season. The DEFENSE has literally been atrocious since Dan Mullen squandered a championship offense in 2020
The Gators under Mullen allowed the defense to tank. 2020 with that offense the defense just sucked. The defense was always good and sometimes great for decades but Mullen, great on offense, let the defense and his lackluster recruiting effort overall crash.
He made a mistake in his hiring, but he wasn't even allowed to fix it. In a regular year, that 8-2 before the SEC championship, would have been 10-2. All his pass catchers opting out for the bowl game destoryed any chance of yall competing with Oklahoma. Had yall helped him choose a top defensive coach and let him hire some recruiters, he could have made Florida elite in the NIL era. Kyle Trask became the 2nd greatest passer in UF history
@@FightingMexican Mullen had recruiting issues but, the defensive side of the ball is what did him in. Just my opinion 🤔. Even with Trask we couldn’t stop anyone we just out scored em. And then not starting AR ahead of Emory, geez. I think Mullen was happy to leave as the pressure cooker of Gator HC must be overwhelming. Go GATORS
As a Clemson fan who remembers when Napier was our OC, there are SOOOO many things in that offense that has to go right for it to work. Its something that small schools can do great with, but when youre playing a P5 defense, i just dont know how it can work unless you have some very special players. I've always liked the Gators so it'll nice to see them back on track but they've swung and missed on every HC since Urban and unless FLA wins 8 games this season on a schedule which on paper might be the most difficult in history, i think Billy will be out.
After LSU fired Orgeron, Napier reached out to LSU's AD, Scott Woodward, MULTIPLE times to show interest about the opening. Woodward never returned Napier's calls. Maybe Woodward knew something about Napier others didn't.
Yes, you must recruit the players and Keep them, but you have to develop and Improve the players. While lauded as being organized, it seems to be clearly lacking. We fail in all of these areas . The response to the failures seems weak. There is Low Energy, sleepy press conferences. Starting players label you a 'loser' from within. Low confidence, no swagger , not a recipe for success in the SEC.
Been watching your videos since 2016/2017....when I was attending UF. Your videos kept me going during down times. Sad to see this video come up but its deserved. Keep doing what you're doing!
@@LordTylerBluGunderson 😂 enjoy finding a new coach that wants to come there in the off-season i would go to FAU over Florida I’m not taking that Florida job I’m not risking my career ever
I’d say it has to do with Recruiting. They are competing against teams like Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky etc… for the SEC. While they are struggling to recruit from their own state with the rise of Florida State, Miami and UCF. It’s taken its toll on a Mediocre UF team inside of the SEC.
Florida has always been a sleeping giant because where they are located and being the only Florida school in the SEC. As a LSU fan, while i love the streak we are having against them (5 in a row 😂), them not being good just isn’t good for college football. The state of Florida in the 90s was THE college football empire. Florida, Maimi, and FSU were modern powerhouses. From 1991-1999, those 3 schools had 4 of the 9 national championships awarded.
Florida literally went to the sec championship and barely lost to bama back in 2020, people are just over exaggerating. They also went 8 and 4 that year in a all SEC season counting the loss to bama
2012 they were robbed in being passed over by a terrible Notre Dame team in playing Bama in the National title game. 2015 they were 6-0 until freshman Will Grier got kicked off the team. 2019 team was 11-2 and won the Orange Bowl. The 2020 team was 8-4 and its defense was horrific, and has started the slow collapse ever since.
I can remember back in the 90’s when they’d show offense and defense starting rosters after kick off, Tennessee (my team) had mishmash of players on both sides of the ball from all over the country. For the Gators.. they were all from Florida. almost every single player. Just an endless pool of talent produced in that state. Spurrier’s offenses were scary and if he got up on you, he’d run away with it and run the score up.. didn’t care. Regardless of how it got to this point, Florida’s just experiencing some down time now. Big changes will eventually be made and they’ll be back.. and it won’t take them long. UF has always been a worthy program for a big coach. They get the hire they need and you could see the Gators back to business in a season or two.
Let's be honest. Before Spurrier and after Urban Meyer, what have they really done? Is Florida really that type of Blueblooded program? They've struggled since Meyer left.
Just gotta hire the right coach I think. Because they got the resources and recruiting footprint to bounce back quickly. A good coach will have them humming year two or three. Just Napier doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Michigan had been dying a slow death for decades, and looky there, a Natty and a coach that moved on. Good luck to Alabama, Michigan and all those that lose their coaches after great success!
We just have to make it through this last season and then there's going to be a complete rebuild of Florida from the athletic director, down. The only coach doing okay that was hired by the current AD is Todd Golden and the men's basketball team. Every other coach for every other sport that Scott Strickland hired has flopped. And even Todd Golden was looking ify until the current season.
@@MrAllosaurStrickland didn't hire Sully. Sully been there for years and has been consistently good. My point is that everyone Strickland has hired has flopped with the exception of Todd Golden. Stricklin has hired, what, 4 football coaches? We have never been to the playoffs. Yeah, we won the East a couple times but so what? It's Florida. We should be playing for championships. The other sports have not been great, either. Scott Stricklin won't be allowed to hire another football coach if Napier is fired. But, yes, getting to the CWS is great, even if they did just barely squeak in. But Sully is not a Stricklin hire.
Florida hasn’t been completely trash since Tebow left but right now the problem has been Scott Stricklin. He was buddy buddies with Dan Mullen who he worked with at Mississippi St. He knew Mullen wasn’t a great recruiter or a fan of it but hired him anyways. Shockingly Mullen couldn’t recruit and it was a huge reason he was fired. Then Stricklin hired a HC with no power 5 HC experience. Also Stricklin keeps scheduling these insane hard non conference games. The SEC is hard enough but scheduling top 10 Utah back to back years. Now Miami, FSU, and UCF in the same season is trash. It’s like Stricklin is trying to get Napier fired. Even next year schedule will probably be even harder with traveling to Miami and USF, then playing FSU…
im just interesting in what you are talking about but even Norvell had power 5 experience with OC for 3 seasons at ASU, and ppl said he was in over his head, i do think that it did suck that you guys didnt do a big coaching search like we did after willie, but hope you guys will be better and get something going, its good to see us and yall have a really good competitive game again but then again the 23 and 22 game were intense so.
@@FSUSean2112 it also helps when FSU plays weak competition but Norvell is alright. Billy only won the Sun belt one time in 4 years… that’s not a great hire for the university of Florida. Our AD screwed up like I said. Rumors were even out there that Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley had interest in the Florida opening but our AD wanted nothing to do with them.
It’s not a drop in talent, it’s a drop in coaching! Trust me, as a Tennessee fan we have seen it all. It all starts with decision making by the university. Unqualified A.D.’s getting pressure from Alumni who try to drive the bus with huge egos and with donations giving them head of the class status. Universities hiring bogus search firms who just take the money with bad results! Presidents and Chancellor’s that don’t care about the actual school and are just looking for the next opportunity to move up! To the loyal fan who supports these programs regardless of the record, we’re just getting screwed! Are you sick of your ROI? I was and I quit donating and buying season tickets after 48 straight years.
As a Florida fan, it is incredibly saddening to watch one man single-handedly set the program back at least a decade. Even during the Muschamp and McElwain eras, top-tier players still wanted to wear Blue and Orange. Napier forced AR15 to be a pocket QB and, in most cases, refused to let him run the ball, which led to him throwing unnecessary picks. Blame Napier, not AR15. Napier has made it clear from Week 2 or Year 1 that he doesn’t have the first clue what he’s doing out there. He’s an absolute joke and needs to be gone ASAP.
We beat Utah the first week he got there. No you just want to hang the white towel because we finished 5-7 even though we have the #12 recruiting class? Pathetic “Florida” fans. Y’all are soft and whiny quitters.
We will be back. Nick Saban is gone, too. The problem has been the school's AD. Every coach since Urban Meyer can't recruit. Georgia is getting more Florida talent than we are. That gotta STOP.
Florida has always been a Crap Program. They had a nice 11 year run in the 90s with Spurrier, in which they were one of the best program in the Country. Obviously they had a nice run under that Criminal Meyer also, but that time period has aged like Wet bread in a Gainesville summer. Historically though they are Crap, from 1911-1990 they NEVER won 10 games in a season, to put that into perspective.... Alabama had 21 10+ win seasons in the same time span Auburn had had 7 Georgia had 10 Tennessee had 11 Kentucky had 2 Ole Miss had 5 Vanderbilt had Zero also Miss State had 1 LSU had 4 So Florida was on the same level as Vanderbilt.
@@DanielOrmsby-z9z At this point I think it'd take a Pete Carroll, Nick Saban type pedigree. This is starting to feel like when Billy left to coach in the NBA.
Florida is in dangerous territory, right now they are going through what Tennessee went through but they are really close to becoming Nebraska if they don't find the right in 2025.
@@markkuhn9315 Pretty sure the NCAA vacated that whole season for Team Violations in 1984! Cheating is not allowed! LOL So no I am not wrong! Nice Try!
@@markkuhn9315 LOL! Can you read? The Gators and the fans celebrated much like we celebrate national titles today. We bought anything and everything that said “1984 SEC Champions” on it. Whether it was t-shirts, hats, or Coke bottles (I still have a few unopened), if it had that on there, we had to have it. It was pure joy in Hogtown. Then came the word from the SEC. There would be no Sugar Bowl. There would be no SEC Championship. It was being taken away for NCAA violations. To make it worse, the national championship was won by BYU. They got it by winning the Holiday Bowl by beating a 6-5 Michigan team. Had we been allowed to go to the Sugar Bowl, who knows? Several polls voted us national champs anyway, but not the ones that really counted, like the AP and UPI
From 1991-2008 that time period encompasses every SEC championship and national championship the Gators have ever won. This Florida we see today is what they've always been for over 90 years. The question we should be asking is how did this shitty program randomly get good for a little bit?
Argument about Billy Napier is an accurate he’s only had two years, hell he hasn’t even had a full recruiting cycle of his own players. This will be the year that we see some significant success or failure, but you guys aren’t giving these coaches long enough, and now with NIl. which is bullshitand transferring if you want to if you don’t want to play or wanna play has ruined the game
I got ridiculed when I said don't hire Billy! I got ridiculed when I said fire him when he couldn't go 500 with the 4th overall pick in the 2023 draft as his quarterback! A feat probably never accomplished in college football history! I got ridiculed when I said fire Billy last year and call Urban. Billy ball didn't work, doesn't work and won't work! Call Urban like yesterday!
The University of Florida would be stupid to fire their head coach. Who are you gonna get? Who? Unless you’re in the top four teams of the SEC, you might as well keep your coach, and do the best you can.
@@Drillpink Also very impressive that you have talked to every single fan and can read every single fans mind and can unequivocally make that comment. Very impressive.
Bayou Billy is cooked tbh, this year they're not winning 5 games on that schedule. Recruit all you want but its gotta translate to more wins. Their in state rivals are doing better. FSU is recruiting worse and somehow developing better than UF. Don't really think Billy is the guy for them
what you mean we are recruting worse, i mean we got into the the top 10 and yes we did lose out on bolden but still plenty of good talent, and the portal is helping still cause thats the new norm in college football but we are developing better cause we have a better coach but hope things will be better for yall
@@FSUSean2112 In terms of HS only recruits Napier is out recruiting us but it hasnt translated to any success. FSU is doing more with less blue chip guys. We lost on Bolden and Blount both 5* guys that wouldve had us a top 5 class but its okay Norvell has proven to develop lower ranked guys anyway. My point remains
At the end of the next season Napier will be done, and when the mass exodus of players begins that will end UF for the next decade. I hate to say it but only a miracle will stop this.
It isn’t a slow death,, we been going downhill since 2009…that’s 14 years.. 14 years!!! And if anyone thinks that someone can come in and turn it all around in just 2 years , is just plain stupid.. he’s now gotten rid of all the other coach’s players,, so Napier will have a lot better team now, even with the hardest schedule in college history.. gators gonna shock everyone this year,, including all the negative, gator fans .. 💙🐊🧡
Florida is not pumping as much money into the football program as other schools are. Top level leadership is problematic. The big brass at UF are more focused on academics rather than athletics. This allows incompetent mid-level leadership to take root - like Scott Stricklin. This moron thought it would be a great idea to fire Mullen and hire SunBelt Billy. Florida’s issues are not unlike Tennessee’s past struggles. It just takes buy-in from the university’s big brass, a competent AD, and a proven head coach. It really isn’t that complicated.
It's the UAA. They are terrible and don't care about football as much anymore because they want to change the image from a football school to an "everything school" the result is, our women's soccer team is great along with the other unwatched sports at the cost of football directly. As a fan who has watched since before I could talk, this is heartbreaking to see. Nothing will change unless all of them are ousted, along with Stricklin and Napier. It'll take an entire restart of the university itself for things to change and it'll probably be at least a decade until UF is prominent in football with the way things are going. It's actually astounding how bad they've been.
That may be the lamest excuse I have ever heard! Your insertion that this downfall is somehow by design is ludicrous! Florida is not a Blue Blue Football program! These kids today does not ever remember Florida being relevant! Florida is equivalent to Missouri!
@@CousinEddy1969 I don’t think it’s by design but by gross negligence. Florida is a blue blood program. There’s no excuses here, just accountability. No reason at all that Florida shouldn’t be in national title conversations every year except for the lack of real care towards the football program. If you like Mizzou so much, go root for them. Kids don’t remember Nebraska being relevant either, but they were one of the best for a while as well.
@@TheLemon420 my point is that no Florida is not a historical Blue Blood Program. Its fan base aged 35 and under has the opinion that Florida is a Historical BB Program, but the truth is that prior to 1990 Florida had never even won an SEC Title and had not finished the season as a top 10 CFB team more than a couple of times! Florida is today what they have always been historically speaking!
@@CousinEddy1969 so that means Florida should never strive to achieve greatness again? Georgia had a 40 year drought of anything and almost 3peated last year. Nebraska used to rule college football once upon a time and now they're irrelevant. Besides Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, Alabama has been irrelevant. Florida has all the best recruits in it's backyard and plenty of money to succeed, so they should. Period. Go be a loser somewhere else.
@SCSAsJorts Yeah.. Carroll brought in the superstars. His USC teams would make other good teams they would play out west during the season look average. They’d just smoke everyone else in their wake. Matt Leinart.. what a career he had.
You have to look at UF more objectively. If UF were really one of the Top 4 teams in 2020, they wouldn't have lost FOUR GAMES! Also the whole "every recruit wants to play for UF" line: I know you're a Florida Expectorator fan, but come on. There's a reason Etienne left to go to UGA. Hyping up Napier as the "best hire" of 2022, too... just stop reading UF propaganda 24/7. Nobody outside of Gainesville thought Napier was the best hire that year. He was just an unproven G5 hire. 2023 UF was a 4-8 team that managed to win two games they shouldn't have (UTK, SCAR) and lose one they should have won (ARK). "Kentucky was on fire!" If you're going to do these retrospectives and expect people to respect your videos/opinions, you have to be honest with yourself. The excuses here just make your bias is glaringly obvious and it hurts your credibility. This video is just filled with lies and excuses to make you feel better about a program that is in dire straits. It's a shame because I've watched at least one of your other videos and you did much better examining other programs.
For your correction if you paid attention to what he said.He said Florida was the team every recruit wanted to play for during the urban era not now smh
their turning into what usc was. terrible at developing talent. can only blame coaching. they get the talent. just fail to develop them or keeping talent
Let’s just call it what it is. Florida was one of the first sec schools and they have a grand total of 5 sec championships. The gators are an old program and have only been successful for like a 15 year period. There is alot of reason to believe them being good was an outlier and what they are now is who they are as a program
Couldn’t agree with you less, when Napier arrived the shelves were empty and Mullen had killed the recruiting program! Napier has worked to change all this, he is recruiting great and building a program! Teams never improve with coaching changes every 2-3 years! You should also point out that the QB that got in legal trouble had charges dropped, try to be responsible we have enough hacks in the reporting business! The Gators are on the right path and the freshman talent being developed is off the charts!
We have had enough of 3 years and your out at UF. Give the guy the 4 years you said when he was hired. Besides you fire Billy and you also lose DJ. Patience is what is needed at this point, I have total faith in Billy and can't wait for him to prove all the " EXPERTS" wrong!!!! GO GATORS
off what results so far? can't even get the rite amount of guys on the field. I love Florida football just as much as the next person an hate to struggle .but its at the point its pointless . How many years does it take just to look like your not running a team at the ymca ?
@ghostwalker89 I'm with you, but man, I'm glad. I might have to eat crow on this one because I thought Sarkisian was the worst hire possible, but he's doing better than I could possibly imagine
Casual take after casual take lol. More ny6 bowl wins in the last decade than any other Florida team and we’re really gonna die on the hill that Napier isn’t the guy when he’s done better than norvell in his first two years in the sec at the height of nil x portal
You can't mention FSU having "fallen off a cliff" without mention that FSU has 2 double-digit win seasons the last 3 years which has included sweeps of the season series over both UF and UM.
Things are changing! All the smart kids are coming on board. U recruit quality kids. Parents realize all the woke colleges up north produce discontent.
I think they just need to get hamster at the intangibles in close games. Too many stupid errors. I agree, I am excited for 2025 24 is gonna be rough though
last years offense wasn't that bad. it was the defense that really needed help. so i'm going out on a limb and thinking they will clean that up this year. id also bet (if i could bet on just the outcome and not the spread and money line), that they start out 3-0. As long as QB can stay healthy and coaches aren't stupid, this season should be a massive improvement. They also play better at home, and since 2/3 are at home this year (miami/UCF) it'll be close, they should win. @@505premoto
I think you are all FOS and let the man work on building something. NIL and the Portal have destroyed college football it's all about the money now there is no allegiance to any school only the dollar. The powers that be that reap all the benefits from these kids and are laughing all the way to the bank. If Napier doesn't show any improvement at all then he should be fired at the end of the season. He needs to make a good bowl game with 7 or 8 wins although it might be tough with the schedule they have this year but who knows. I'll still be cheering the good and bitching about the bad but if we don't give coaches time to work and deal with the portal and NIL then they should do away with football at Florida.
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What has gone wrong for Florida football? What has to change?
They probably should do a better job at keeping Florida kids in Florida.
Dan Mullen should've never got fired
@@jamesgray6421 I disagree. He's a large part why the Gators are in this situation due to lack of recruiting although Napier has a lot blame also. Hes also the genius that thought Feleipe Franks was better than Kyle Trask till Franks got injured and Trask had to take over. It seemed to me Mullen checked out towards the end.
1. Georgia becoming a powerhouse
2. Bad recruiting (relative)
3. Piss poor coaching
My hot take: if Colorado has a decent year (6+ wins), I could see Deion taking the Florida job (more as a recruiting hire and to spite FSU).
@@zachcoggins9018 hahaha. No way the Nole great is ever a Gator. No way
The biggest thing is Urban Meyer was an elite recruiter. Not only did he keep a lot of in state talent but he built some good pipeline states to recruit. Like the equivalent of how everyone wants to either go to Bama or Georgia
Lol CRIMINALS
@@MichaelHiers-eb4tc The worst.
Great college coach
Meyer won the 2 national championships with mainly Ron Zooks recruits In the Zook era talent wasn't the issue it was coaching That's the reason why we hired Meyer
The resurgence of UGA football is one of the contributing factors in Florida football decline, along with FSU resurgence.
Miami is taking far more elite players than FSU is.
Player development and recruitment appear to be the underlying cause.
Max Brown wasn’t gonna play before Lagway and he knew that, Douglas was hurt all year and knew young guys would catch up and take over. Trevor claimed to be RB2 because he was and couldn’t pass block.
The scheme is fine…the play calling was off at times but they scored points, opened up the passing mid way through the season. The DEFENSE has literally been atrocious since Dan Mullen squandered a championship offense in 2020
The Gators under Mullen allowed the defense to tank. 2020 with that offense the defense just sucked. The defense was always good and sometimes great for decades but Mullen, great on offense, let the defense and his lackluster recruiting effort overall crash.
Tbf all his recruiting classes were better than napiers so far except for Mullens first class
yall keep forgetting covid hit bad that year. thats why the defense sucked
He made a mistake in his hiring, but he wasn't even allowed to fix it. In a regular year, that 8-2 before the SEC championship, would have been 10-2. All his pass catchers opting out for the bowl game destoryed any chance of yall competing with Oklahoma.
Had yall helped him choose a top defensive coach and let him hire some recruiters, he could have made Florida elite in the NIL era. Kyle Trask became the 2nd greatest passer in UF history
Most Gator fans would take Grantham’s defense over Armstrong’s.
@@FightingMexican Mullen had recruiting issues but, the defensive side of the ball is what did him in. Just my opinion 🤔.
Even with Trask we couldn’t stop anyone we just out scored em. And then not starting AR ahead of Emory, geez. I think Mullen was happy to leave as the pressure cooker of Gator HC must be overwhelming.
Go GATORS
As a Clemson fan who remembers when Napier was our OC, there are SOOOO many things in that offense that has to go right for it to work. Its something that small schools can do great with, but when youre playing a P5 defense, i just dont know how it can work unless you have some very special players. I've always liked the Gators so it'll nice to see them back on track but they've swung and missed on every HC since Urban and unless FLA wins 8 games this season on a schedule which on paper might be the most difficult in history, i think Billy will be out.
Florida football is so bad that the Gators only have a 25% chance of winning the coin toss. 😂
After LSU fired Orgeron, Napier reached out to LSU's AD, Scott Woodward, MULTIPLE times to show interest about the opening. Woodward never returned Napier's calls. Maybe Woodward knew something about Napier others didn't.
You get that from msnbc or cnn?
@@charlesjenkins8610 That's what was reported by The Jordy Culotta Show around December 2022/January 2023 after Brian Kelly was hired by LSU.
@@charlesjenkins8610that was reported by several Baton Rouge sports journalists… I’m from Louisiana and live near BR
Yes, you must recruit the players and Keep them, but you have to develop and Improve the players. While lauded as being organized, it seems to be clearly lacking. We fail in all of these areas . The response to the failures seems weak. There is Low Energy, sleepy press conferences. Starting players label you a 'loser' from within. Low confidence, no swagger , not a recipe for success in the SEC.
A good rebuild team for College Football 25
Been watching your videos since 2016/2017....when I was attending UF. Your videos kept me going during down times.
Sad to see this video come up but its deserved. Keep doing what you're doing!
We are easily the most poorly managed football program in the country. Sun Belt Billy is awful, but he’s a symptom of the bigger problem
Nahh Ithink Miami would take that
@@Blickymouse4 miami doesn’t have the vast resources or alumni base we have. But yes miami is a botched program as well
It is going to be hard for Florida to even win 5 games this season that’s how hard there schedule is
Bruh, no it’s not. 5 wins should be easy with a legit defense.
@@LordTylerBluGunderson 😂 enjoy finding a new coach that wants to come there in the off-season i would go to FAU over Florida I’m not taking that Florida job I’m not risking my career ever
@@LordTylerBluGunderson Want to rethink that statement?
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@@22trem they lose to UCF
I’d say it has to do with Recruiting. They are competing against teams like Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky etc… for the SEC. While they are struggling to recruit from their own state with the rise of Florida State, Miami and UCF. It’s taken its toll on a Mediocre UF team inside of the SEC.
I don’t think the administration is 100% in on really competing at the highest level. Until this changes, Florida will be an also ran.
They should’ve been giving the ball to Johnson Jr. more. He moves the chains and eats the clock with his bruising runs.
Florida has always been a sleeping giant because where they are located and being the only Florida school in the SEC.
As a LSU fan, while i love the streak we are having against them (5 in a row 😂), them not being good just isn’t good for college football. The state of Florida in the 90s was THE college football empire. Florida, Maimi, and FSU were modern powerhouses. From 1991-1999, those 3 schools had 4 of the 9 national championships awarded.
Fsu coming back though as an lsu fan you would know about that😂
@@Hunt-nu1pq I do know. No matter how hard you tried, you still couldn't make the playoffs 🤣
We had one in 2019 😂
@@Hunt-nu1pq Go Noles.
@@ghostwalker89 No matter how hard you tried, you still couldn't beat us! 😆 🤣 😂.
@@adangbe no playoffs for you 🤣
Have fun staying in the ACC 🤣
LSU will be back in the championship game in a short time.
Stop the coaching carousel. It makes the program vagabondish and gives the impression that the job is simply a stepping stone to a better one. 😮
So true right on
Wtf Florida hasn't been good since Tim tebow that was a long time ago
Florida literally went to the sec championship and barely lost to bama back in 2020, people are just over exaggerating. They also went 8 and 4 that year in a all SEC season counting the loss to bama
They were good in 2018 & 2019, but as far as being a title contender, you're right.
2012 they were robbed in being passed over by a terrible Notre Dame team in playing Bama in the National title game.
2015 they were 6-0 until freshman Will Grier got kicked off the team.
2019 team was 11-2 and won the Orange Bowl.
The 2020 team was 8-4 and its defense was horrific, and has started the slow collapse ever since.
@@R.POliver LMFAO! UF didn't even win the SEC Least in 2012 but you think UF deserved a shot over undefeated ND? Get real.
@@encycl07pedia- Riiiiiight! lol Florida had the 1# schedule in the country chit for brains. If you were any dumber? You’d be an idiot.
I can remember back in the 90’s when they’d show offense and defense starting rosters after kick off, Tennessee (my team) had mishmash of players on both sides of the ball from all over the country. For the Gators.. they were all from Florida. almost every single player. Just an endless pool of talent produced in that state. Spurrier’s offenses were scary and if he got up on you, he’d run away with it and run the score up.. didn’t care. Regardless of how it got to this point, Florida’s just experiencing some down time now. Big changes will eventually be made and they’ll be back.. and it won’t take them long. UF has always been a worthy program for a big coach. They get the hire they need and you could see the Gators back to business in a season or two.
Let's be honest. Before Spurrier and after Urban Meyer, what have they really done? Is Florida really that type of Blueblooded program? They've struggled since Meyer left.
The rise of Louisville football is still insane 🤞🏽🤞🏽
And that’s the gospel truth
Too bad the basketball team sucks
No national titles or undefeated seasons is insane? UCF is better than Louisville
Unfortunately it’s going to get worse this year. Schedule is brutal and Napier seems to know he is fired.
Florida might be cooked low key
I don’t think so, my guy. Look at how well they’re recruiting and their hiring process.
Just gotta hire the right coach I think. Because they got the resources and recruiting footprint to bounce back quickly. A good coach will have them humming year two or three. Just Napier doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Michigan had been dying a slow death for decades, and looky there, a Natty and a coach that moved on. Good luck to Alabama, Michigan and all those that lose their coaches after great success!
Been waiting for this since you did that fsu one a few years ago.
Napier is completely lost and has no idea of what he is doing, PERIOD.
We just have to make it through this last season and then there's going to be a complete rebuild of Florida from the athletic director, down. The only coach doing okay that was hired by the current AD is Todd Golden and the men's basketball team. Every other coach for every other sport that Scott Strickland hired has flopped. And even Todd Golden was looking ify until the current season.
Well I guess making the college World Series last year is a failure to right?😂
@@MrAllosaurStrickland didn't hire Sully. Sully been there for years and has been consistently good. My point is that everyone Strickland has hired has flopped with the exception of Todd Golden. Stricklin has hired, what, 4 football coaches? We have never been to the playoffs. Yeah, we won the East a couple times but so what? It's Florida. We should be playing for championships. The other sports have not been great, either. Scott Stricklin won't be allowed to hire another football coach if Napier is fired. But, yes, getting to the CWS is great, even if they did just barely squeak in. But Sully is not a Stricklin hire.
UF should have kept Dan Mullen
Worst decision ever, he told the world Anthony Richardson wasn’t ready and it was shown when he started under Napier😂
Florida hasn’t been completely trash since Tebow left but right now the problem has been Scott Stricklin. He was buddy buddies with Dan Mullen who he worked with at Mississippi St. He knew Mullen wasn’t a great recruiter or a fan of it but hired him anyways. Shockingly Mullen couldn’t recruit and it was a huge reason he was fired. Then Stricklin hired a HC with no power 5 HC experience. Also Stricklin keeps scheduling these insane hard non conference games. The SEC is hard enough but scheduling top 10 Utah back to back years. Now Miami, FSU, and UCF in the same season is trash. It’s like Stricklin is trying to get Napier fired. Even next year schedule will probably be even harder with traveling to Miami and USF, then playing FSU…
im just interesting in what you are talking about but even Norvell had power 5 experience with OC for 3 seasons at ASU, and ppl said he was in over his head, i do think that it did suck that you guys didnt do a big coaching search like we did after willie, but hope you guys will be better and get something going, its good to see us and yall have a really good competitive game again but then again the 23 and 22 game were intense so.
@@FSUSean2112 it also helps when FSU plays weak competition but Norvell is alright. Billy only won the Sun belt one time in 4 years… that’s not a great hire for the university of Florida. Our AD screwed up like I said. Rumors were even out there that Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley had interest in the Florida opening but our AD wanted nothing to do with them.
Billy Napier gonna get them right that was his second season at florida
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@omz31 he had ULL as a powerhouse in the G5 it takes time to turn around an awful program the swamp hasn’t been great since Tebow
@@skywalkerthom1733if Florida is not in the national championship after this season he's fired
@@macgoldie7771 lmao you’re smoking I’m sure their expectations are no higher than making the playoff
He’s gonna have his 3rd losing season this year.
It’s not a drop in talent, it’s a drop in coaching! Trust me, as a Tennessee fan we have seen it all. It all starts with decision making by the university. Unqualified A.D.’s getting pressure from Alumni who try to drive the bus with huge egos and with donations giving them head of the class status. Universities hiring bogus search firms who just take the money with bad results! Presidents and Chancellor’s that don’t care about the actual school and are just looking for the next opportunity to move up! To the loyal fan who supports these programs regardless of the record, we’re just getting screwed! Are you sick of your ROI? I was and I quit donating and buying season tickets after 48 straight years.
As a Florida fan, it is incredibly saddening to watch one man single-handedly set the program back at least a decade. Even during the Muschamp and McElwain eras, top-tier players still wanted to wear Blue and Orange.
Napier forced AR15 to be a pocket QB and, in most cases, refused to let him run the ball, which led to him throwing unnecessary picks. Blame Napier, not AR15.
Napier has made it clear from Week 2 or Year 1 that he doesn’t have the first clue what he’s doing out there. He’s an absolute joke and needs to be gone ASAP.
You’re a Florida fan? NO Florida fan calls it Blue and Orange. GTFOH troll…😂
We beat Utah the first week he got there. No you just want to hang the white towel because we finished 5-7 even though we have the #12 recruiting class? Pathetic “Florida” fans. Y’all are soft and whiny quitters.
Don’t short change the gators. New season. Good recruiting. They are getting quality kids who don’t have to report to their parole officer
Georgia has had 43 arrests and 2 deaths during the Napier era so far. Napier seems to be recruiting players with better character
We will be back. Nick Saban is gone, too. The problem has been the school's AD. Every coach since Urban Meyer can't recruit. Georgia is getting more Florida talent than we are. That gotta STOP.
Florida has always been a Crap Program. They had a nice 11 year run in the 90s with Spurrier, in which they were one of the best program in the Country. Obviously they had a nice run under that Criminal Meyer also, but that time period has aged like Wet bread in a Gainesville summer.
Historically though they are Crap, from 1911-1990 they NEVER won 10 games in a season, to put that into perspective....
Alabama had 21 10+ win seasons in the same time span
Auburn had had 7
Georgia had 10
Tennessee had 11
Kentucky had 2
Ole Miss had 5
Vanderbilt had Zero also
Miss State had 1
LSU had 4
So Florida was on the same level as Vanderbilt.
You sound like a NOLE!
I’m only half way thru the video and ima Florida fan and almost eveything you have said has been skewed to make things so much worse then it is.
And most is untrue or stats off, record off, players years they were actually at Florida off.. read some headlines and made a video smh 🤦
Once they stop signing kids who spit, throw shoes, and block each other then things will start to change
Billy isn’t going to survive the UCF loss.
If he loses to ucf he’s gone.
As a 38 year Gator fan I knew Billy would flop hell if Dan couldn't do it Billy for sure couldn't
39 yr fan here I couldn't agree more we value shop for coaches think coach 0 be good
@@DanielOrmsby-z9z At this point I think it'd take a Pete Carroll, Nick Saban type pedigree. This is starting to feel like when Billy left to coach in the NBA.
Ready to hand the couch his hat huh?
@@edwardmccoy274 A year ago...... Success in the Sun Belt doesn't equal success in the SEC
Yeah! We're going to find out! Won't we?
Florida is in dangerous territory, right now they are going through what Tennessee went through but they are really close to becoming Nebraska if they don't find the right in 2025.
History did not begin in 1990! Prior to 1990, Florida was exactly what they are today terrible!
Wrong 1984 SEC champs should’ve won a national
@@markkuhn9315 Pretty sure the NCAA vacated that whole season for Team Violations in 1984! Cheating is not allowed! LOL So no I am not wrong! Nice Try!
Florida is Water Trash
LIAR
@@markkuhn9315 LOL! Can you read?
The Gators and the fans celebrated much like we celebrate national titles today. We bought anything and everything that said “1984 SEC Champions” on it. Whether it was t-shirts, hats, or Coke bottles (I still have a few unopened), if it had that on there, we had to have it. It was pure joy in Hogtown.
Then came the word from the SEC. There would be no Sugar Bowl. There would be no SEC Championship. It was being taken away for NCAA violations.
To make it worse, the national championship was won by BYU. They got it by winning the Holiday Bowl by beating a 6-5 Michigan team. Had we been allowed to go to the Sugar Bowl, who knows? Several polls voted us national champs anyway, but not the ones that really counted, like the AP and UPI
what is funny is florida isn't historic their entire football history is confined to an 18 season stretch save one heisman trophy winner in the 60s.
Neither is Oregon
From 1991-2008 that time period encompasses every SEC championship and national championship the Gators have ever won. This Florida we see today is what they've always been for over 90 years. The question we should be asking is how did this shitty program randomly get good for a little bit?
When you change coaches every 4 years it doesn’t help.
Argument about Billy Napier is an accurate he’s only had two years, hell he hasn’t even had a full recruiting cycle of his own players. This will be the year that we see some significant success or failure, but you guys aren’t giving these coaches long enough, and now with NIl. which is bullshitand transferring if you want to if you don’t want to play or wanna play has ruined the game
I got ridiculed when I said don't hire Billy! I got ridiculed when I said fire him when he couldn't go 500 with the 4th overall pick in the 2023 draft as his quarterback! A feat probably never accomplished in college football history! I got ridiculed when I said fire Billy last year and call Urban.
Billy ball didn't work, doesn't work and won't work!
Call Urban like yesterday!
The University of Florida would be stupid to fire their head coach. Who are you gonna get? Who? Unless you’re in the top four teams of the SEC, you might as well keep your coach, and do the best you can.
"I thought Billy was the next big thing"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠ said no one ever. You FL people are special
I don't recall any fans saying that or thought of that.Nice try though..
@@Drillpink Also very impressive that you have talked to every single fan and can read every single fans mind and can unequivocally make that comment. Very impressive.
You do realize Napier actually did a solid job at recruiting and hiring coaches, right? Y’all haters are in the minority.
@@LordTylerBluGunderson And yet he still found a way to lose.
I thought dan mullen shouldn't have been fired
Florida was good for only a 20year period this is them going back to normal
Sad, but TRUE 👍
Florida is a joke now
Nah, Oregon, Washington, and California are the worst.
Nah, Oregon, Washington, and California are the worst.
Looking at their schedule there is a legit possibility that they lose the last 7 games in a row.
And the 1st.
Bayou Billy is cooked tbh, this year they're not winning 5 games on that schedule. Recruit all you want but its gotta translate to more wins. Their in state rivals are doing better. FSU is recruiting worse and somehow developing better than UF. Don't really think Billy is the guy for them
what you mean we are recruting worse, i mean we got into the the top 10 and yes we did lose out on bolden but still plenty of good talent, and the portal is helping still cause thats the new norm in college football but we are developing better cause we have a better coach but hope things will be better for yall
@@FSUSean2112 In terms of HS only recruits Napier is out recruiting us but it hasnt translated to any success. FSU is doing more with less blue chip guys. We lost on Bolden and Blount both 5* guys that wouldve had us a top 5 class but its okay Norvell has proven to develop lower ranked guys anyway. My point remains
Love the channel but to clarify 8 conference titles not national championships
At the end of the next season Napier will be done, and when the mass exodus of players begins that will end UF for the next decade. I hate to say it but only a miracle will stop this.
Jesus Christ loves you
People watch these cause they want to watch sports. Please leave this to sports only!
Not sad... this has allowed others programs to emerge. Ole Miss and Missouri have been doing good...
It isn’t a slow death,, we been going downhill since 2009…that’s 14 years.. 14 years!!! And if anyone thinks that someone can come in and turn it all around in just 2 years , is just plain stupid.. he’s now gotten rid of all the other coach’s players,, so Napier will have a lot better team now, even with the hardest schedule in college history.. gators gonna shock everyone this year,, including all the negative, gator fans .. 💙🐊🧡
In your mind. Scott.
Get rid of all the alumni who fire the Coach every 5 minutes!
Florida is not pumping as much money into the football program as other schools are. Top level leadership is problematic. The big brass at UF are more focused on academics rather than athletics. This allows incompetent mid-level leadership to take root - like Scott Stricklin. This moron thought it would be a great idea to fire Mullen and hire SunBelt Billy. Florida’s issues are not unlike Tennessee’s past struggles. It just takes buy-in from the university’s big brass, a competent AD, and a proven head coach. It really isn’t that complicated.
It's the UAA. They are terrible and don't care about football as much anymore because they want to change the image from a football school to an "everything school" the result is, our women's soccer team is great along with the other unwatched sports at the cost of football directly. As a fan who has watched since before I could talk, this is heartbreaking to see. Nothing will change unless all of them are ousted, along with Stricklin and Napier. It'll take an entire restart of the university itself for things to change and it'll probably be at least a decade until UF is prominent in football with the way things are going. It's actually astounding how bad they've been.
That may be the lamest excuse I have ever heard! Your insertion that this downfall is somehow by design is ludicrous! Florida is not a Blue Blue Football program! These kids today does not ever remember Florida being relevant! Florida is equivalent to Missouri!
@@CousinEddy1969 I don’t think it’s by design but by gross negligence. Florida is a blue blood program. There’s no excuses here, just accountability. No reason at all that Florida shouldn’t be in national title conversations every year except for the lack of real care towards the football program. If you like Mizzou so much, go root for them. Kids don’t remember Nebraska being relevant either, but they were one of the best for a while as well.
@@TheLemon420 my point is that no Florida is not a historical Blue Blood Program. Its fan base aged 35 and under has the opinion that Florida is a Historical BB Program, but the truth is that prior to 1990 Florida had never even won an SEC Title and had not finished the season as a top 10 CFB team more than a couple of times! Florida is today what they have always been historically speaking!
@@CousinEddy1969 so that means UF should give up entirely on having dynasties and being good at football? Go be a loser somewhere else.
@@CousinEddy1969 so that means Florida should never strive to achieve greatness again? Georgia had a 40 year drought of anything and almost 3peated last year. Nebraska used to rule college football once upon a time and now they're irrelevant. Besides Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, Alabama has been irrelevant. Florida has all the best recruits in it's backyard and plenty of money to succeed, so they should. Period. Go be a loser somewhere else.
Same could be said about my USC Trojans, ever since Pete Carroll it’s been so up and down and just mid
@SCSAsJorts Yeah.. Carroll brought in the superstars. His USC teams would make other good teams they would play out west during the season look average. They’d just smoke everyone else in their wake. Matt Leinart.. what a career he had.
@@MrKnoxguy101 yep, and his success carried over to the NFL, it’s been years but people still chasing thst Pete Carroll ghost
You have to look at UF more objectively. If UF were really one of the Top 4 teams in 2020, they wouldn't have lost FOUR GAMES! Also the whole "every recruit wants to play for UF" line: I know you're a Florida Expectorator fan, but come on. There's a reason Etienne left to go to UGA.
Hyping up Napier as the "best hire" of 2022, too... just stop reading UF propaganda 24/7. Nobody outside of Gainesville thought Napier was the best hire that year. He was just an unproven G5 hire.
2023 UF was a 4-8 team that managed to win two games they shouldn't have (UTK, SCAR) and lose one they should have won (ARK). "Kentucky was on fire!" If you're going to do these retrospectives and expect people to respect your videos/opinions, you have to be honest with yourself. The excuses here just make your bias is glaringly obvious and it hurts your credibility. This video is just filled with lies and excuses to make you feel better about a program that is in dire straits.
It's a shame because I've watched at least one of your other videos and you did much better examining other programs.
For your correction if you paid attention to what he said.He said Florida was the team every recruit wanted to play for during the urban era not now smh
@@Drillpinkright! I’m a Seminole, and even I can admit that the swamp (criminal) kings were IT during those 3yrs. Every kid wanted to be a damn gator
RB1? That was a typo. ETN was the #2 RB…..
@@Chasing72 Etienne* was #2? He had more YPC and TDs than the other RB.
I'll fix it. Thanks.
Love the the vids, but nobody has ever done one on the greatest ncaa duo ever insane stats(chase clement & jarrett dillard) Rice football
their turning into what usc was. terrible at developing talent. can only blame coaching. they get the talent. just fail to develop them or keeping talent
looking back they never really developed skill players. the players that were good stayed about the same never got better. and it showed in the nfl
Better for Mizzou! MIZZOU! Go Tigers!
Mizzou is a trash school.
Let’s just call it what it is. Florida was one of the first sec schools and they have a grand total of 5 sec championships. The gators are an old program and have only been successful for like a 15 year period. There is alot of reason to believe them being good was an outlier and what they are now is who they are as a program
I thought they had 7 or 8. Look it up.
Couldn’t agree with you less, when Napier arrived the shelves were empty and Mullen had killed the recruiting program! Napier has worked to change all this, he is recruiting great and building a program! Teams never improve with coaching changes every 2-3 years! You should also point out that the QB that got in legal trouble had charges dropped, try to be responsible we have enough hacks in the reporting business! The Gators are on the right path and the freshman talent being developed is off the charts!
LOL!
No more money from me until Scott Strickland is FIRED!!!
I don’t know if it was really “botched by billy” the only QB issue that was his fault was Rashada.
and you really cant blame him for Rashida…
Vids like this never age well, every program has eras of success & failures
Lagway will eventually go another way.
I really don’t think so.
I don’t think the future is bright in Florida. I’d say partly cloudy 🌤️.
Keep dreaming
@@edwardmccoy274 Who's dreaming?
UF wins by year:
2019: 11 wins
2020: 8 wins
2021: 6 wins
2022: 6 wins
2023: 5 wins
That's reality.
@@encycl07pedia-it takes a special program to do that 🤣🤣🤣
Party cloudy is a good way to describe it. It could be good or bad.
@@encycl07pedia-Because of cupcake games? Try again.
As they used to say, watch this!!!
We have had enough of 3 years and your out at UF. Give the guy the 4 years you said when he was hired. Besides you fire Billy and you also lose DJ. Patience is what is needed at this point, I have total faith in Billy and can't wait for him to prove all the " EXPERTS" wrong!!!! GO GATORS
off what results so far? can't even get the rite amount of guys on the field. I love Florida football just as much as the next person an hate to struggle .but its at the point its pointless . How many years does it take just to look like your not running a team at the ymca ?
The rise of Texas football under Sarkisian would be good
Give it another year before all that 😂
One good year since Colt McCoy got yall a little too hype.
@ghostwalker89 I'm with you, but man, I'm glad. I might have to eat crow on this one because I thought Sarkisian was the worst hire possible, but he's doing better than I could possibly imagine
I likely will blindly bet the Florida season win total under again.
Considering the loss to Texas A&M in 2029 to be “stupid” is hilarious, ass if that wasn’t a top 5 team on the road lmao
Casual take after casual take lol. More ny6 bowl wins in the last decade than any other Florida team and we’re really gonna die on the hill that Napier isn’t the guy when he’s done better than norvell in his first two years in the sec at the height of nil x portal
UF, FSU and The U all have fallen off a cliff.
You can't mention FSU having "fallen off a cliff" without mention that FSU has 2 double-digit win seasons the last 3 years which has included sweeps of the season series over both UF and UM.
@@williamfreeman8210 Go away NOLE.
Not FSU they a good team
@@andrewfanfanwell. About that...
Things are changing! All the smart kids are coming on board. U recruit quality kids. Parents realize all the woke colleges up north produce discontent.
Napier? he totally sux. Maybe we can clean house- new President of UF, new AD, new HEAD COACH- Think how wonderful a clean sweep would be!!!
I think they just need to get hamster at the intangibles in close games. Too many stupid errors. I agree, I am excited for 2025 24 is gonna be rough though
Nape's days are numbered
Florida never has been historically great they went 80 years without a 10 win season 6&6 7&5 is what Florida is historically
Boy, 5 months later you sound like a prophet. Smh🤕
As a FSU fan its not sad for me😂
Nor was the OB game for us. 3-63!
@@donpavia746 i take it you didn’t enjoy your last game of the season😂
@@kingfinesse8402 No.
We will be back
🤣🤣🤣
When?
🤣🤣🤣
Only in a re-run
This year might be a surprise, 8-4.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they went 4-8. They won’t beat either of the in-state teams.
last years offense wasn't that bad. it was the defense that really needed help. so i'm going out on a limb and thinking they will clean that up this year. id also bet (if i could bet on just the outcome and not the spread and money line), that they start out 3-0. As long as QB can stay healthy and coaches aren't stupid, this season should be a massive improvement. They also play better at home, and since 2/3 are at home this year (miami/UCF) it'll be close, they should win. @@505premoto
@@505premoto4-8? That’s not gonna happen. Try again.
@@LordTylerBluGunderson 3-9?
7-5 would be good with 2025-2026 breakout seasons
He’s cooked. He can’t recruit or in-game coach. Lane 2025
Could always wheel Spurrier back in...
They went to the SEC championship in 2020
Spurrier never won at Doak 😂
🤡
He wiped the floor with Bobby in New Orleans though.
Wtf you said the defense was solid? WHEN?!
They were, just about every year before Grantahm showed up….😂
It’s gonna get better
I think you are all FOS and let the man work on building something. NIL and the Portal have destroyed college football it's all about the money now there is no allegiance to any school only the dollar. The powers that be that reap all the benefits from these kids and are laughing all the way to the bank. If Napier doesn't show any improvement at all then he should be fired at the end of the season. He needs to make a good bowl game with 7 or 8 wins although it might be tough with the schedule they have this year but who knows. I'll still be cheering the good and bitching about the bad but if we don't give coaches time to work and deal with the portal and NIL then they should do away with football at Florida.
Never forget the shoe toss 🤣🤣🤣
You love to see it 😊
Must hate Florida because of DeSantis🙄
As we did in the OB game. Go away and sue someone nole.
#FiRE SCOTT STRICKLAND he has only hired failing coaches since he came to Gainesville