And the miserable news just keeps on acommin'!
And my question continues to hang out there, twisting in the empty, howling wind:
"Will Billy be GIVEN ample time to get there?"
Assuming all you document was clear, not just to Billy but to the people who hired him, is that original clear-eyed commitment still intact?
Were they always, and are they STILL prepared for the fickle impatience and notorious changeability of Gator Nation?
Because with all you say, and the supposedly pending avalanche of poor performance and lopsided scores now on the way, that very "commitment" appears likely about to be severely tested.
If there is and/or ever WAS anything TO the numbers you have marshaled to build your case, there is little we can do now to "avoid the inevitable--little except to carry on the effort already under way in our program since Napier's arrival to REVERSE THOSE numbers, "slowly but SURELY" turn them in our favor in the weeks, months, YEARS AHEAD--assuming we GET that time, our Coach here working HARD "for however long it takes"?
Because I think you're right: It WILL take all that, the time and wholesale exchange not just of talent but the fundamental underlying attitude and structure of our program, after more than a decade of multiple ego-ridden bungling by at least 4 different Coaches BEFORE Billy, just to get us in POSITION to compete at the highest level once more.
In this day, the times we live in:
Will we, will HE really GET that time?