Billy Napier’s days are numbered in Florida . According to a source who spoke to CBS Sports’ Brandon Marcello and Richard Johnson , that number can be counted on one hand.
“Florida appears to have hit the point of no return under coach Billy Napier,” Marcello and Johnson wrote. “Though many supporters believe it is inevitable the third-year coach’s tenure will end this fall, the mechanism pushing the buttons behind the scenes has been shrouded by an opaque power structure at the university.
“Administrators at the university level and within the athletics department have remained mum as rumors circle Napier after two blowout losses. The reality is Napier can be fired at any moment, sources tell CBS Sports. Questions abound, too, about the future of athletics director Scott Stricklin, who serves an interim university president with a board of trustees comprised of powerful political players in the state.”
Billy Napier is on a similar trajectory to Bryan Harsin in 2022
Napier’s Gators are seeing players sit out games in pursuit of a redshirt much in the same way Bryan Harsin’s Auburn Tigers did in 2022. The feeling is similar now to Harsin’s final days on the Plains in September 2022.