I for one am completely fed up--am SICK TO DEATH of the wide array of ever-changing areas of DISarray this team and program continues to display. And THAT'S on our COACH:
Week after week, the only consistent feature of this team during his tenure has been INCONSISTENCY.
I simply see absolutely NO long (OR short) term advantage in retaining Billy Napier as our Coach...
And, while we are "facing facts", if anything I see even LESS substantive evidence for keeping Strickland as our A.D.
I do not "hate" Billy--on the contrary, I recognize that HE is a decent, good-hearted, if somewhat befuddled individual who has risen beyond his ability to execute his responsibilities with any real competence: As I have said before, he'd make a more-than-adequate small-time highschool or peewee-level Coach: I'd easily entrust the health and budding well-being of my 9 or 10 year old to his care.
But as a bigtime college Head Coach?
Well, we've already seen WAY more than enough damning evidence to the contrary in THAT regard.
HOWEVER: I HAVE come to fully DESPISE AND RESENT Scot Strickland as our Athletic Director.
The man just doesn't "GET" the priorities here at University of Florida. "Championships" in assorted "OTHER sports" is fine and good--but finding and hiring Coaches who manage it is hardly a central requirement of his job here: "solidly competitive across-the-board" is more than adequate...But it is of course FOOTBALL upon which our appreciation of man and job rests.
This is THE SEC:
FOOTBALL IN THE SOUTH has long since become the weekly outlet for all the repressed and sublimated post-Civil War tensions still reverberating down through history in America.
OK--I'm probably way over-stating in no doubt twisted fashion the true nature and underlying forces at work here, but y'all get the idea of what I'm trying to say--how much it MEANS to us down here...A Roundball Championship In March is satisfying for maybe a month or two for most at UF (and to a certain regional extent beyond), but a CFB Natty is thoroughly satisfying to the core of every soul comprising Gator Nation throughout the land--and NOT just for the following YEAR either: It leaves a slow-fading warm AFTERGLOW for years to come!
Coach who presides over just ONE gets cut a great deal of slack for some time...BUT--
The A.D. who misfires on that hire 4 or 5 times IN A ROW, over more than a DOZEN YEARS, well...HE has got to GO.
I mean, WTF is HE STILL DOING HERE??!
FLA @ TEX
