{"id":76407,"date":"2024-09-21T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2bc0480e906cf28537714d67"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T15:00:17","slug":"nick-saban-surprisingly-doesnt-blame-floridas-struggles-on-billy-napier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/nick-saban-surprisingly-doesnt-blame-floridas-struggles-on-billy-napier\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Saban surprisingly doesn\u2019t blame Florida\u2019s struggles on Billy Napier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/nick-saban-surprisingly-doesnt-blame-floridas-struggles-on-billy-napier.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div readability=\"41.591351351351\">\n<p>Nick Saban believes Florida\u2019s failures go beyond Billy Napier, who is <span class=\"waslinkname\">on the hot seat<\/span> and will likely be fired after the Gators\u2019 next loss.<\/p>\n<p>Saban blamed UF\u2019s administration for the Gators being behind their SEC counterparts during an appearance on the September 21 edition of ESPN College GameDay live from Norman, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I think maybe the problem isn\u2019t the coaches,\u201d Saban said (h\/t <span class=\"waslinkname\">On3<\/span>). \u201c \u201cYou know, they\u2019ve been through four coaches since Spurrier and Urban Meyer, who both created a tremendous culture of winning there. And sometimes the fanbase can just think \u2018Well we can show up and expect to win.\u2019 And not make the commitment to the program that you need to make to be able to continue to make the changes and investments you need to make to keep up with changing times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should\u2019ve taken advantage of building better facilities when Urban Meyer was there. What\u2019s there collective been like? How have they adapted to this new model of college football? So it\u2019s not just the coaches. When you\u2019ve been through four coaches that haven\u2019t had success, there\u2019s something else that people should be looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Florida should be better, Nick Saban overlooking key facts<\/h2>\n<p>Florida has a top-10 NIL collective in the country in funding, Florida Victorious. The Gators are a school that has secured flips and lost recruits all the same, so they are exactly where a Power 4 program should be.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s not all Napier. Many schools are known for having overinvolved boosters that hold the team back. Auburn and Texas A&amp;M are famous examples within the SEC. But the Gators are not showing the effort needed to even compete in games, like their losses to Miami and Texas A&amp;M this season.<\/p>\n<p>Saban is defending his fellow SEC coaching peer from the last two years. But he&#8217;s overlooking key facts in doing so.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Saban believes Florida\u2019s failures go beyond Billy Napier, who is on the hot seat and will likely be fired after the Gators\u2019 next loss. Saban blamed UF\u2019s administration for the Gators being behind their SEC counterparts during an appearance on the September 21 edition of ESPN College GameDay live from Norman, Oklahoma. \u201cWell, I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}