{"id":73516,"date":"2024-10-24T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/billy-napier-buyout-florida-coachs-status-in-flux-with-gators-per-pete-thamel\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:09:19","slug":"billy-napier-buyout-florida-coachs-status-in-flux-with-gators-per-pete-thamel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/billy-napier-buyout-florida-coachs-status-in-flux-with-gators-per-pete-thamel\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Napier buyout: Florida coach\u2019s status \u2018in flux\u2019 with Gators, per Pete Thamel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming into the 2024 season, Florida Gators<\/a><\/strong> head coach Billy Napier<\/a><\/strong> was already on the proverbial hot seat. Now, after leading the Gators to a 4-3 record, there are still questions about his future.<\/p>\n

ESPN insider Peter Thamel explained that Napier\u2019s status is still in flux with the team on the College GameDay Podcast<\/em>. He also shared some insight into why that might be and the buyout that Napier has with Florida.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would still think Billy Napier\u2019s future is in flux,\u201d Pete Thamel said<\/a>. \u201cHe could\u2019ve really helped himself by beating Tennessee<\/a><\/strong>. I give Billy Napier a lot of credit. There has been signs, and DJ Lagway<\/a><\/strong> is at least hope, and they appear to be aligned. It was interesting, Lagway\u2019s father, who I follow on Twitter, posted a picture of DJ and Billy standing on the field during the Kentucky<\/a><\/strong> game. Florida hasn\u2019t won an SEC game like that in a long time where they\u2019ve kind of run someone out of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now in his third season at Florida, Napier has led the Gators to a 15-17 record. There have been signs of improvement in 2024, though, including in the form of freshman quarterback DJ Lagway. At the same time, losing to Tennessee meant that Napier missed out on a potentially major win and the schedule gets much tougher from this point forward.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am a believer that there is a collectively, reasonably talented roster at Florida. Now, look, that final stretch is that final stretch. There\u2019s no other way to say it. It was a five-game final stretch. The game in Tallahassee doesn\u2019t look as intimidating now\u2026there\u2019s a path for Billy Napier. I believe the buyout number is something like $26 million. So, that is not insignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another major concern for Florida as it relates to Billy Napier is the financial cost of firing him. His buyout is well over $20 million. That\u2019s before accounting for buying out the assistants and likely buying out the team\u2019s next head coach. On top of that, this comes as it looks like revenue sharing will soon be a challenge for athletic departments to navigate. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne other macro point here is that all these schools making decisions, whether it\u2019s SEC, AAC, Conference USA, it\u2019s \u2018I have to pay X as a buyout number and I also have to figure out how to pay, in the SEC, a $20 million budget of revenue sharing.\u2019 There\u2019s just not an unlimited pool of money for these schools and finding a line item for $20 extra million is \u2014 again, the money is there and nobody is playing the violin, but it\u2019s still like $20 more million,\u201d Thamel said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFlorida is gonna figure out the money and it\u2019s going to be fine. There is sort of a thought exercise of, \u2018Okay, do we take $26 million and spend it on good players as opposed to spending it on dead weight coaches,\u2019 because you\u2019ve got some assistants on that staff. Sometimes staff buyouts are an additional $10 million. Florida, the way the contracts are written\u2026it\u2019s not a total poison pill on the staff. End of the day, these are still millions of dollars, they\u2019re just not conjured with the snap of a finger.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the time being, Billy Napier and Florida are going to the Georgia Bulldogs<\/a><\/strong>, who they\u2019ll play after a bye week.<\/p>\n

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