What has gone wrong for Florida football? What has to change?

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

Player development and recruitment appear to be the underlying cause.

The resurgence of UGA football is one of the contributing factors in Florida football decline, along with FSU resurgence.

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

Florida football is so bad that the Gators only have a 25% chance of winning the coin toss. 😂

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!

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.

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.

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.

It is going to be hard for Florida to even win 5 games this season that’s how hard there schedule is

Been waiting for this since you did that fsu one a few years ago.

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 might be cooked low key

They should’ve been giving the ball to Johnson Jr. more. He moves the chains and eats the clock with his bruising runs.

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. 😮

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.

The rise of Louisville football is still insane 🤞🏽🤞🏽

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.

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!

Florida was good for only a 20year period this is them going back to normal

Wtf Florida hasn't been good since Tim tebow that was a long time ago

Once they stop signing kids who spit, throw shoes, and block each other then things will start to change

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.

Unfortunately it’s going to get worse this year. Schedule is brutal and Napier seems to know he is fired.

Billy Napier gonna get them right that was his second season at florida

A good rebuild team for College Football 25

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.

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.

Billy isn’t going to survive the UCF loss.

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.

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

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.

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…

Love the the vids, but nobody has ever done one on the greatest ncaa duo ever insane stats(chase clement & jarrett dillard) Rice football

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.

In your mind. Scott.

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.

UF, FSU and The U all have fallen off a cliff.

As they used to say, watch this!!!

When you change coaches every 4 years it doesn’t help.

Same could be said about my USC Trojans, ever since Pete Carroll it’s been so up and down and just mid

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

History did not begin in 1990! Prior to 1990, Florida was exactly what they are today terrible!

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?

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

As a 38 year Gator fan I knew Billy would flop hell if Dan couldn't do it Billy for sure couldn't

Better for Mizzou! MIZZOU! Go Tigers!

I likely will blindly bet the Florida season win total under again.

"I thought Billy was the next big thing"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠ said no one ever. You FL people are special

I don’t know if it was really “botched by billy” the only QB issue that was his fault was Rashada.

Looking at their schedule there is a legit possibility that they lose the last 7 games in a row.

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.

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

Napier is completely lost and has no idea of what he is doing, PERIOD.

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.

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.

Not sad... this has allowed others programs to emerge. Ole Miss and Missouri have been doing good...

Didn’t they loose to Utah?

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

I thought dan mullen shouldn't have been fired

Get rid of all the alumni who fire the Coach every 5 minutes!

This year might be a surprise, 8-4.

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

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 .. 💙🐊🧡

I don’t think the future is bright in Florida. I’d say partly cloudy 🌤️.

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

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.

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 love to see it 😊

Florida is a joke now

😂😂😂😂😂 that’s the funniest shit I’ve ever heard in my life the baby lizard that’s the standard and spit Ville

Vids like this never age well, every program has eras of success & failures

The rise of Texas football under Sarkisian would be good

Wtf you said the defense was solid? WHEN?!

Spurrier never won at Doak 😂

As a FSU fan its not sad for me😂

Lagway will eventually go another way.

sad? this is amazing

Florida never has been historically great they went 80 years without a 10 win season 6&6 7&5 is what Florida is historically

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.

Go Dawgs!!

Go noles!

We will be back

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.

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

Yuck, the Gators are bottom feeders🤢🤢

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.

Jesus Christ loves you

Womp womp

He’s cooked. He can’t recruit or in-game coach. Lane 2025

Lease Dan Mullen One Sunbelt spit baby can’t win nothing

😂😂😂😂😂 the softest football team in college is the baby lizards and baby Napier running around in his diaper teaching all his football players how to spit on people

You hate to see it

😂😂😂😂😂😂

This is stupid

They will always be the lousy, stink'n gators. Go DAWGS!!

Florida is trash >:D 🗑

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