Anyone got a major problem with Billy Napier?

[Coursesuper]

If he’s the guy I want him to bring his entire staff. We need continuity.

[Commercecomet24]

If he’s the guy I want him to bring his entire staff. We need continuity.

Amen to this! This is to often overlooked . Continuity is huge.

[Cooterpoot]

If he’s the guy I want him to bring his entire staff. We need continuity.

Disagree. A good coach knows who he wants on his staff. We can afford better coaches than he’s got. OC/DC are huge hires in the SEC.

[Coursesuper]

Disagree. A good coach knows who he wants on his staff. We can afford better coaches than he?s got. OC/DC are huge hires in the SEC.

If it?s working for the guy well enough to land the next bigger gig, why not let the guy bring his guys he?s comfortable with, guy that understand his philosophy and not hire the next two mercs that will leave for the next bigger check.

[Cooterpoot]

If it?s working for the guy well enough to land the next bigger gig, why not let the guy bring his guys he?s comfortable with, guy that understand his philosophy and not hire the next two mercs that will leave for the next bigger check.

Because nobody hires an entire G5 staff. Money matters. You go get the best money can buy. ULL can’t get the coaches we can.

[Coursesuper]

Because nobody hires an entire G5 staff. You go get the top DC you can afford. Napier is an offensive guy, so his OC I would get. But we don’t need his DC. And he’s a good guy but he’s not an SEC DC.

I like him, he is a good guy, he’s very good friends with my cousin. But if the head guy likes him as a coach can he be worse than Sirmon?

[War Machine Dawg]

Yikes on Grantham. I don't see why he would even be in our top 10 of candidates.

As for the assistants, you just have to give Napier a big pool of money to hire the best staff possible. And need to fill it up with guys like Tony Huges and not guys like Luke Getsy.

Worse take ever. Hughes is a f'n liability as a coach. Sure, dude can recruit. But as an actual coach he blows bovines. An off the field recruiting position is perfect for him. Getsy was a helluva coach. You don't get hired to coach Aaron Rodgers if you aren't good. That's one of the reasons I want Norvell. He's had 6 assistants hired away to be head coaches. Dude is great at spotting coaching talent and improving it.

[HoopsDawg]

If he’s the guy I want him to bring his entire staff. We need continuity.

His S&C coach looks good. Bring him for sure. I would want to keep Hughes obviously. And maybe Tbuck and Johnson for their MS ties and recruiting.

[Gutter Cobreh]

Napier will certainly get buy-in from the team when he makes them open up their wallets.***

https://www.usatoday.com/amp/2034293001

[HoopsDawg]

Napier will certainly get buy-in from the team when he makes them open up their wallets.***

https://www.usatoday.com/amp/2034293001

Yeah don't love that.

[BhamDawg205]

Disagree. A good coach knows who he wants on his staff. We can afford better coaches than he?s got. OC/DC are huge hires in the SEC.

Bring his OC... He's also the OL coach. This is important for blocking schemes and techniques. Plus he's coached in the SEC, blue blood staff to.

[BuckyIsAB****]

I do not, but I also didn't have an issue with JoMo until I got to know his personality.

Gotta interview him to identify the personality type. Good football coaches keep players uncomfortable & on edge

The 2nd part of that is not true. On edge yes but uncomfortable, no. This aint a video game dude you are dealing with real people and some of them will tell you to piss off or quit on you. You cant coach every kid the same.

That said, Moorhead is a hell of an interviewer. A lot of guys are, then they are exposed between the white lines. I'll pass on the great interview guys. Napier would be a good hire on paper but it isnt a home run. More like a double at best. I would be ok with it, it makes sense and he would be a good fit.

[Lance Harbor]

As he was the bubble screen king. Maybe he's learned a lot since then, but State could do better.

7-2 this year. Lost by 10 to us and 10 to App State.

Coached under Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney.

Louisiana is also a key recruiting area for us to supplement MS recruiting.

40 years old. Only makes about a million per year/maybe less so financials are not an issue.

[Cooterpoot]

Napier is middle of the pack for me. But he’s the same coaching tree as Norvell (somewhat).

[Dawgfan77]

I am not saying Napier is the end all be all but he is a damn good HC. If rather trust my future to a proven HC than another assistant coach. I guess we could try and hire Kevin Wilson from OSU.

[TheLostDawg]

Napier night be good at recruiting Louisiana guys but all the top hs players go to LSU there. He's young yes but with that you worry more about leaving if having success. Just some points to consider

[HoopsDawg]

As he was the bubble screen king. Maybe he's learned a lot since then, but State could do better.

We actually discussed this in this thread. He was 29. That was 11 years ago. I hope he's learned a lot since then.

[HoopsDawg]

He's young yes but with that you worry more about leaving if having success. Just some points to consider

Do you not realize how insane that is?

[TheLostDawg]

Do you not realize how insane that is?

It's not if we aren't willing to pony up the money to keep him if successful. I'd rather get a guy like Grantham that would stay. However I'd much rather have a young guy that is successful and can relate to the younger guys. Nothing makes me more mad than watching Moorhead sit there while we get flagged for touching an opposing player and then we get tackled going for a ball and no flag. I'm all for young and energetic but we can't let the next guy come in and job search every off season. Like I said, something to consider. I don't know where we are as a program especially after Cohen was going to give us a big hire and we ended up with Lemonis be (not a shot at lemonis).

[Todd4State]

Napier night be good at recruiting Louisiana guys but all the top hs players go to LSU there. He's young yes but with that you worry more about leaving if having success. Just some points to consider

I'm 95% sure that if he comes here he will keep Hughes on staff and about 100% sure he'll bring Looney with him. I think it's highly possible that he keeps T-Buck and possibly promotes Peterson to an on the field role.

He's a HC who also coaches the QB's- so that sort of eliminates Breiner's position coach role which would probably go to Looney assuming that Rob Sale comes in as OC/OL coach meaning the Looney could be the assistany OL coach and possibly also coach TE's allowing us to move Hughes wherever we need him. His RB and DL coach are both legit and probably could recruit anywhere. His ST coach also helps with LB's which means he probably helps their DC with position coaching. If his WR coach stays in Louisiana where he is from and is also the RC we could very easily slide Peterson in at WR coach/recruiting coordinator.