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"Become a money maker covering recruiting. I do think that these recruiting services and it's become really something that's covered in depth throughout the entire year, right? And I think there are credible people throughout that profession that really is making these rankings a little bit more accurate than maybe let's say 15, 20 years ago when it was very political. But I do think there's still an important element to evaluating players. And I also think it's really nowadays important to evaluate the character, the family structure, who the voices are in their lives, because of the portal and the things that come with that. So I still think evaluation is extremely important. We spend an inordinate amount of time on it, and I think we've been benefited us. I really like this script that we've put together today. Coach, if we could, before you go, and I know it's a busy day, just to reflect back on this past year, it was a year ago that we were seeing you being introduced and joining us and talking about what was ahead and you had an intricate plan, it was one of the most complex and efficient that I think any of us have ever heard. How do you feel like it's going, I know it's a record was, but that can be different than how you view the progress. No, I think you're spot on. You know, I think the first of all, I think there was a reason why we were hired. Obviously, I do think we've made significant progress. And I think we've got the organization up and running. For the most part, all of our systems are in place, we made the move into the new facility about ten days before the opening game. We're into year one. And I think that often say, year one is like giving a year of your life away, you know? And I do think it was challenging. We lost essentially 5 games by one score when you really look at it. Obviously, we'd like to get a better result on the field, but I do think we've made a ton of progress. We're much more familiar with our roster, we're much more familiar with the university of Florida and the competition. So I'm confident we've put together a really great group of people and I'm really looking forward to kind of starting over here as we start phase one in January. Excited about this core group of veterans that we've got coming back and then, you know, we've got about 20 players that will be joining our team at midyear, which is a huge number. So, you know, a lot of ups and downs, but I think those things are to be expected. In year one, got a lot of work to do. And I think that's why we were hired. And I'm excited about what I see. And what we're capable of here at the university of Florida. Could surely Napier, thanks for making time for us coach me well, and we hope to see you soon. Thank you, Paul. Have a great day. You bet. Billy naper, joining us from Gainesville, top ten recruiting class for the Gators. You can say the same thing about our next guest after a stellar first year. At LSU, taking his LSU team to the SEC championship game, including a stunning upset over Alabama. We'll talk to Brian Kelly next. You are listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. And we're back on national signing day. It's not over yet. But it's getting close. Brian Kelly joins us to head coach at LA shoe. His second early December signing, although last year, I think he barely barely found out where his office was. Coach, great to have you on. How different is it today than a year ago when you were just landing in Baton Rouge? I found my office, Paul. That's been comforting. No, it certainly, as you know, if you have a full year to really build relationships with the players and the families. And certainly have a staff now that you spent some time with, there's great continuity and everybody's pulling in the same direction and makes this a lot smoother. Yeah, there's so much that goes into it and you've done it at the highest level for a very long and successful period. But this year, it seems like coming off of a big year. And I know sometimes recruiting is always a little more in the future than a media, but what type of residuals did you sense overall from your surprising year to all of us? Well, I think what it does more than anything, Paul is that when you talk about playing for championships, it can fall on deaf ears if you're not close. Certainly we didn't win the SEC championship, but we can see that we've got a football team that can compete at the highest level. We've got some work to do. There's no question. You know, we have some holes that have to be addressed through player development and certainly through recruiting. But I think when you're out there recruiting and they see your football team play and see how real close you are, that's certainly going to help you in the recruiting process. Meaning in the media talk about this NIL and the portal and all these things that you have to contend with on a daily basis. But from year to year and you've done this now throughout the life of that and I know, which is a year and a half old, the portal is out there now. How different was this year than even a year ago in dealing with all of those? Yeah, so I think everybody's got a good sense of how to utilize free agency or the portal as it relates to their program.
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"And we certainly probably should call him because he will do what you don't want to do because you're too much of a good Samaritan. Let me talk about something else that we do want your comments on because so we talked to Billy Napier last week in Atlanta and there's a lot of optimism that typically there's always those who are finding a storm in every port you've been down there a lot. You know you know this man by now what should we expect? Well, it's hard to know anything before you play a football game. So I don't want to overstate anything, but watching coach Napier the way his mind thinks the way he prepares and every aspect of what you could imagine and then some and the staffing they have an incredibly impressed, I think he has built an incredibly positive culture along with high level of accountability. And those are two hard things to do. It's hard to build a kind of a collegial upbeat friendly environment and also have accountability and be a share of when needed. I think the attendant to detail that the people that are there that the coaching staff they brought in, I'm very impressed at this point. I have more than I have in the past. I've been able to be involved and done some things there and work in some of the team. And so I'm really optimistic, you know, it's a tough tough conference to be in and the SEC east is a tough place to play. But I'm really looking forward to the season and I'm very happy that Billy Napier is our coach. Describe what you have seen so far of Anthony Richardson and how can he do what everyone expects him to do as the spotlight will burn bright on him in a couple of weeks. Yeah, I mean, the biggest challenge I think for him is the expectation level is off the roof. But I think it's there for a reason. You know, you see his talent, it's shown through a lot of athletically. But you also look at the throws he's made, and if you really look at the film and watch how his processing information even last year in the games, you can see at least in my opinion a high level thinking quarterback with some very good skills. And so translate that to this year with more coaching with being the start of kind of the man going into it, I think the sky's the limit and what I'm hearing, which is really encouraging is how intelligent he is as a player and how smart he has been picking up the offense and so you put all those things together and you do have high expectations. I'm really looking forward to watching him play. Danny always a pleasure to have you on. We will continue this conversation and we're not going to let you off so easy about the Florida Georgia game the next time. Be well. And so great to see you. Thanks, Paul. Take care. Danny whirl. One of the literally all time legends, both on and off the field. We'll take a short break back with your phone calls right after this. You are listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. And welcome back. Matt is up next. Burger, how you feeling, mister Paul pond bomb. Matt. I was gonna talk to you about Texas a and M today and our topic when we talk to you guys about. Okay. So I don't think the quarterback rain in this year, people shouldn't jump the gun and say it's going to be max Johnson when we don't know who in Corvette says you're going to be this year predicting him, you guess what you want, but in the day, we're not the coach. He makes that decision. Oh, this is fan. And I wanted your thoughts on that as well. Well, it's always the case, Matt, fans are heard on shows like this, but they're not listened to by patients. David
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"If you want to get in, we will have some time to get to you folks in just a minute. I promise. Big 12 media days have made their official predictions. They are out. We'll get to that momentarily. Mike Gundy, Oklahoma state head coach, all in his feelings about the future of the bedlam series. We'll get to that. As well here on the program. Again, 855-242-7285. You can get to me as well at brayden Gaul on the Twitter machine. More your calls in just a second. Of course, Nick de la Torre joining us here on the program from Gators online. Let's check in with Billy Napier and what he's doing down there. How many analysts do we have now in Gainesville? Officially on Billy Napier staff. It's just a running tally. And I'd be different by the time this interview ends. But yeah, hey, it's a gray area in the NCAA bylaws and these coaches will find a loophole wherever they can get it. And if you get an aids email pay for it, why not, right? Listen, I think if you're going to take some things from Nick Saban, I think Billy Napier and you tell me what you think about this, Nick. I think Billy Napier took the right things from the time he learned and worked with Nick Saban and is implementing them. He did it at Louisiana and from what I can tell. It sounds like he's implementing them at Florida. Yeah, well, I've been afforded ten years, so we've had some savings disciples come through and that's always the thought. Jim mcelwain came in, he had this 24 month calendar that he got from Nick Saban and it didn't work out and obviously Dan Mullen, he was not the same guy. But you hope you hope, I guess, because savings certainly the blueprint, but it seems to me that billing behavior has a plan because coaches have asked for two new assistants to help in recruiting and having gotten that and he was able to Billy Napier was able to go in with Scott Strickland and lay out a plan. Like, hey, I'm not just asking you for $7 million for nothing. These are what these people are going to do. So I think from an organizational standpoint and especially where college football is going right now, I mean, you've got recruiting, coaching, planning, now the transfer portal, which is like free agency and then there's like two different free agency periods. It's a lot to handle for a coach. So I think that Florida is probably maybe trend setting as we move into this new era with NIL and they have a whole division for NIL and opportunities for the student athletes there as well. Nick de la Torre joining us here, senior writer for Gators online. And what is the state of this roster? Because I think we'll see and find out how much Billy Napier was better at recruiting in his plan than maybe Dan Mullen, which obviously shouldn't take a whole lot. But what's the state of the roster that he is inheriting? We know how good Anthony Richardson is. There's a few nice defensive pieces. Where is this roster relative to the last 5 years? Yeah, I'm a little bullish on Anthony Richardson. I think he is, you know, has like potentially like a Cam Newton type of season in him. I don't know that floor does a national contender, certainly, but if Anthony Richardson plays, I think he can can border win ten games, maybe. I probably pegged them with their schedule between 7 and 8. I think they have a really good offensive line. They have three strong running backs and a quarterback who might be the best running back on the team. When you're 6 four two 40 and you can run 20 miles an hour. I think that's what they're going to lean on. If you look at building 8 years offense at Louisiana, last year, they had four different players carrying the ball a hundred times. I think you'll see that because Florida strength will be offensive line and then the running attack on defense, my big question marks are kind of right up the middle with defensive tackle nose tackle. There's not a lot of depth there. You have ventral Miller and middle linebacker who's returning for 6 seasons. But last year, when he went down Florida really didn't have an answer and you don't really have an answer this year if he were to go down with another injury. So I think for roster is good, there's just not a lot of depth. And that's probably what happens when you get coaching staff that had a recruiting season in a football season for the last three years. Nick de la Torre joining us here, Braden Gaul on the Paul finebaum show here on ESPN radio from Gators online. Our Gators fans more would they be would they view the win loss record as more important than where the recruiting class finishes or are they all in on the recruiting class right now? It's right now everything's recruiting. I think after ST media days, you know, you start to flip the switch to the football seasons. But the sky was falling and Gainesville a couple of weeks back when January. I went to Miami and there were a couple high profile 5 star guys that one went to Georgia one didn't include Florida in his top four that Florida was trying to trending for. But they've done a really good job picking up 6 four stars on our rankings in the past two and a half weeks. So recruiting speaking up, I think it's a pendulum though. If you go 7 and 5, but you look competitive and you first are the top ten class. I think fans are okay. If you go 7 and 5 and there's some blowout losses to Georgia at Texas a and M, if you lose to a Kentucky or a tendency and you end up with a class outside of even at 15, your outside of the top ten are in the top 20. People are going to be pushing a panic button. And I wonder now in this age of the transfer portal, I used to be a big advocate that coaches needed for years to get their recruiting class in their guys in and still their program. Now is the transfer portal. Is that leash shorter? Because you can see what guys like Mel Tucker have done at Michigan state. You don't need four years. You can go and it might be a band aid in the transfer portal, but you can get guys in and be competitive right away. So I think it's a pendulum for the fans it's a hot topic in a sense of area right now recruiting after the last three years. But I think it's probably a pendulum and it depends on not just the wins and losses, but how do you look in those wins and losses combined with the recruiting ranking? Yeah, as long as they have a winning record and a top 15 class, I think everyone's going to be going to be fine. What's interesting? Tell me what you think about this. I feel like Dan Mullen is a perfect coach. To live and operate in the name image and likeness space because he's not he's like spurrier in that he's not a guy that wants to go out there and just like, you know, beat the pavement to recruit, but he's got a brilliant offensive scheme. I mean, clearly almost beat Alabama multiple times. No one else came close for a couple of those years. It did Dan Mullen just come along at the wrong time or are there some other flaws that we maybe need to address? Damon is an offensive genius. I would put him scheming up against anybody, but at some point the Jimmy's in the Joe's are going to be your ex's nose. And the way Florida was recruiting against their rivals. And listen, it's hard. You could be, you'd have a 7th ranked recruiting class in the country and before in your conference. And that's what Florida is going to be compared to. What are you doing against Jimbo at a and M? What are you doing against Kirby at Georgia what are you doing guys Nick Saban? So the problem with Dan was they weren't getting the same guys that Georgia Alabama to an extent at times Tennessee tech saying and we're getting. So now your game plan has to be perfect and has to be executed perfectly because there's a talent gap. So that was the biggest issue that I had, I think, with the amount in his era. And I don't know that he would have done any better than Billy Napier with an AL. I think with the way that Florida is handling it and I say this, it's like, there's rules for NIL right now. But if I'm driving a 110 miles an hour on the freeway, and there's not a cop around, I'm breaking the rules, but am I going to get in trouble?
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"The precipice of it. I know, I know it's a great school. We all know, but what has kept you there? I think I got the best job in basketball. And I believe that. Yeah, I've had some opportunities to look or leave. And you know what, at the end of the day, you look at this situation. We have a chance to win it every year. Our recruiting. And again, Mitch and I are meeting because my thing about it. It's unacceptable if we're not the gold standard in facilities and everything else. Not acceptable if the midnight madness isn't something that's talked about for a month. Unacceptable. We need to camp out going again. And here's what I say. See, basketball's different in football. Football, you need the cavalry. And basketball one guy can make a difference in winning the whole thing, getting to find one guy. Because it's not 80. And to have everything the gold standard, we've always been that. We slipped a little bit in some of the facilities. Now, I'm not saying our facilities are bad. They're not bad. They're just not the gold standard, and we need Mitch and I are going to sit down and talk, okay, what's the path? How do we get that going to where anybody that walks in our campus and sees any facilities knows, wow. Look at this. And we're going to get there. Like I said, he and I are going to sit down and talk about it. But again, what we do, the big picture is getting kids getting them to that next level by developing young people. And it's been fun doing it. I'm having a ball doing it now. And that's where I'd like to close on because everyone wants to write the obituary of college sports. And it's a different.
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"Was a heck of a coach now. Great coach Hall of Famer. No, he really was. And you're in a few hall of fames yourself. Speaking of that, we get UK fans calling it all the time. There's nothing quite like that fan base. No matter what the previous year was, what is the state of your program, which I'm sure I'm guessing it's pretty good. It is, but I'm still, I mean, we were the 5th seeded team in that tournament and lost that. I'm still sick over it. But Jacob's coming back. Oscar's coming back. I mean, we've got a team severe CJ's healthy, you know, you got Chris and kaysen. You got Antonio transferred in. You still get Damien. You got Lance, who I'm really excited about. So I do comes with us from Pittsburgh, so we've got a terrific group and hiring a new assistant. I don't even know if I'm allowed to announce it yet. I think it's something about today. Yeah, so go ahead. I think that what's a couple. But, you know, this, it's Kentucky. We play for the national championship. And my thing always is you want to be in the hunt. We were in a hunt last year. Yeah, you were really wrong. Two years ago, we won our league by three games, and they shut down the tournament. But that team could have won the whole thing. You want to be in the hunt. And we were and I'm looking at this team. Got a chance. We really do. But you've lived with it. You have one championship. You've lost.
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"Yeah, Jimbo is a great competitor and certainly it's been great to keep up with him and observe his career and these people are who they are because they're great competitors and they have conviction about their process, what they believe in and how they do things. You have embraced NIL to the extent that any coach can. Some coaches talk around the edges, you almost get the feeling that I don't want to deal with it, but I have to. And I don't mean to mischaracterize it. It seems like I've talked to you enough and read enough about you that you have embraced it as much as you can possibly embrace it within the limits of what it is. Yeah, no, I think, you know, it falls under the leadership opportunity. I mean, I think that your job as a leader of the team and the organization is to position your team to have success. It's unfortunate that we're in a very uncertain time, right? And I think uncertain times present opportunity for leadership. We're trying to be competitive. We're trying to put together a winning product at the university of Florida. These are the rules. This is the current dynamic that we're competing in. I've always taken the approach, tell me the rules and we're going to be relentless in the way that we approach things and compete. So right now, I think in IO is part of the game. It's part of the competition. So continue to believe that it's university of Florida name image and like this would be a great strength. We have incredible resources. We have 415,000 living alumni, we have we're located right in the middle of multiple big time media markets and we have 55,000 students. So we play in the SEC, so if you're putting together, if you're putting together ingredients for name image and likeness, we got a pretty good list. Coach, you've been so gracious from the beginning till now, and we really appreciate you've always making time for us. I know you just came out of a meeting. We won't keep you too long, but thank you for dropping out here and we hope to see you this fall. Paul, thanks, man. I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you very much. Coach Billy Napier, joining us as we are live here on the beach in Destin. They won almost day two. It seems like day two. Day one of.
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"About it. Oh, yeah, that's for sure. Yeah, me too. Oh my God. I might be mistaken. Correct me if I'm wrong, but did I man yesterday tell you that you were one toke over the line? Yes, we did, mister brewer and shipley. Yeah. Well, gosh, by his mud. He looks like he's one toke over the line. The second picture yeah, for those who don't go back to the 70s, I was that was a song by a group brewer and shipley that had everything to do with drugs, especially marijuana. Yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah, I know that. I remember the day. Say we're coming back in a few minutes with Billy Napier, the head football coach at Florida. You were listening to the Paul fine bomb show podcast. You're welcome back here. We're just a couple of hours away from the first spring game of the week. That is the university of Florida. Playing the game tonight and we're joined by the head coach. Billy Napier coach good afternoon, great to have you back. Paul, thanks for having me on, man. I appreciate the opportunity. So we're just a couple of hours away from your spring game, and I know everyone uses the spring game for different means, but first of all, it seems unusual, maybe it's not to have a Thursday night game. What's behind that? Well, I think it was a combination of a lot of things. I think certainly with Easter weekend coming up, trying to create as much student involvement, first opportunity for us to engage that group as a whole didn't want to miss out on some of those opportunities as a result of Easter break. So we're working on Thursday night. It's actually turned out to be an advantage in recruiting course and I think the Florida faith will be here and we're thankful for all the people that are going to come out tonight. Yeah, yeah. Listen, while I was aware of the Easter weekend, I didn't realize what an inconvenient it could be for some fans. So that is actually a really smart idea that starts a weekend off. Let's talk about what your expectations are tonight. Well, you know, I think it's a little bit of a midterm exam approach. I mean, I think this is kind of capping off phase three for us. We went through foundation and identity and certainly spring practice here. This is our 15th one. It's an opportunity for the players to kind of put on display all the work that they put in so far with a new staff. And I think we've learned a lot about our team and certainly I've been very pleased with their attitude, their energy, the efforts being great. We've got a long ways to go, you know, excited about what we observe, but not content, and we'll turn the page tomorrow, evaluate the game and there's a lot of very specific work to do to improve our team. And coach, you've alluded to this in the past, your strategy and approach this is not something that you roll out of bed one morning and try to implement. It took a lot of work. In terms of the player personnel development and then the evaluation, by this point, you should have a pretty good idea of what you have. What are your thoughts on what you're seeing every day in practice? Well, I see. I mean, I think the glaring issues the depth issue that we have. I mean, I think we could put a first group out there that compete with about anybody. I think the big thing here is that we've been here a few issues on our team relative to depth. We're very fortunate that we're living in an era here where we have an opportunity to add players to our team and the springtime. All the way up until when summer school starts. So we're going to try to take advantage of that. You know, this is a different era in college football. And like any other time that I'm aware of, you're certainly much been around longer than I have, but it's a unique opportunity with the transfer portal. The player availability, the ability for them to be immediately eligible. I think it's a little bit of an advantage for a new staff, one that maybe you didn't have a couple of years ago. On that subject coach, I mean, I realized you're coaching football. You're not reading all the things that we are reading at a place like this, but coaches are opining on the NIL on the transfer portal. Your former boss talked about it the other day saying it was, I think both of your former bosses talked about this week talking about how it wasn't sustainable. In terms of somebody who is much younger than either one of them and a little bit more of the beginning of their head coaching career, even though you've been successful, how can you make it advantageous for your program overall? Well, are you speaking about name image and likeness is that what you're talking about? And then there's the portal, which you alluded to. Yeah, no, I think the combination of the two is probably worth the issues are, right? I mean,.
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"Station. Let's check in with gator who is in Memphis. Hey gator. Hey, hey, Paul, how you doing? We're Thanks, let me on there. I have a couple questions on a couple of things to say. I enjoyed the Billy Napier interview that you had. Thank you. And then I was going to say for GM and tons of clues. So I have some I've got quite a few black gator heads on my landing bar one sometimes. He wants to wear one. Well, he needs a dog. Well, I'm going to hear that. We were struggling for black hats, Dominic, in Michigan, on the air. Hello Dominick. Hello, Paul. How are you? Really well. Good afternoon. Well, good afternoon. I wish I could say the same. You know, there's one thing that I can tell you from up north. Jim Harbaugh, it's not like the SEC. I mean, can you tell me that you think Nick Saban would leave a program, especially when things are getting tough? I don't think so. Yeah, I am still, maybe you've heard something. I have just found it extraordinary that Harbaugh on national signing day with a pretty good recruiting class after his best season takes off to go to Minneapolis to interview for a job. How's that playing in your town? Oh, I mean, the town just in aurora right now. I'm an SEC guy. Graduated from Kentucky, all SEC. And all my Friends and family members are like, hey, this Michigan program is going to go down the drain. You can just don't see this in Alabama. You certainly don't see this in Kentucky. I think it just shows that the SEC is the best in premier conference in the league. Well, I don't think that's really in dispute. But I am watching the wires pretty closely with the news from Harbaugh. Thanks very much for the call. Do appreciate it. Let's continue and Kevin is up next. Hey Kevin Garrett had a long time caller first time listener. Thank you. This is actually a reference kind of to what Dominic's talking about about old booger eater up there in Michigan. And Nick Saban, George bulldogs made him cry at LSU and he ran off to the NFL. We just beat old booger eater. And now he's running off the NFL. A former bulldog just beat the goat, and now he's retiring. It's just an endless plethora. So yeah, Nick Saban will lead when things get tough, my friend, and so will the booger eater. And the carpetbagger, I think, I think honestly, last year, we did him in two George bulldogs taking names. Thank you very much for the call. Let's check in with doctor Kay in North Carolina. Hello, doctor Kay. Thanks Paul. Just listen to Jimbo's response to the reporter is very vital and obviously bitter and just there's a saying that the guilty usually are get angry and just at the end of his remarks there he kind of turned the finger back at everybody else. It seemed like he was doing a little gaslighting. My interpretation of it, I was going to ask you, if you thought maybe Jimbo was doing some gaslighting, trying to cover things up or if you just think it was just a quick gush of reaction to the question. Well, first of all, he knew he knew the question was coming. And it's not the first time Jimbo has addressed that when he was here a couple of weeks ago. He had the line that went viral about what we're doing now, they just made legal. So I don't think he's denying that they're working on deals, but I don't think he's acknowledging that they're breaking rules in his mind what they're doing is legal. And I think I don't think to save in line really got under his skin because we'll play it again because he made a threat. The lane kiffin line, I mean, lane was being lane and clearly he was coming after lane. It wasn't the most articulate defense I've ever heard. But that's Jimbo. Jimbo loves to rant. He did the same thing two months ago when he addressed the rumors about. Yeah. He does like Durant, but just seeing the fingers back at everybody else and to renew at the bottom. And I will just make a wild prediction here, not good on prediction. He won't do it again. But he wanted to make sure that Saban got the memo. And exactly what he's talking about..
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"What are the rules and engagement, and how do we wrap our hands around this as leaders in college athletics? So there's lots of positives here, but I do think that as we go here, we're going to have to create some guidelines here, relative to competition. Coach ultimately, you're hired to win football games for the university of Florida and I know that that's something that you want to get to, and I'm sure you already are. That's what you're trying to do in recruiting. But as you look ahead, you have spring ball coming up here shortly and then a season, you open with a very difficult foe. What can you tell us today about what the Gators are going to look like on the field come September? Well, I think we've got a lot of work to do between now and September Paul and what I've learned in my career is that you try to break these things up into chunks. We're moving right in the middle of phase one. We're going to move on to phase two when we get back next Wednesday, we start our identity program. That's going to be about 25 days or so and we'll transition into spring break and come back for spring practice. So, you know, a little bit at a time. You know, we've got a lot of work to do. We're far from being ready to compete on the field. And I think we're going to get consumed with the things that we need to do to be competitive when the fall rides. So that's where our focus is currently. You mentioned phase two and I believe this spring will be phase three. How many rungs are there on your program? We've got 8 phases to our year round plan for the team. Certainly right in the middle of phase one and we'll transition to phase two when we get back here after a little bit of a break. Coach it's always good to see you. Thanks for making time. Thanks, Paul, you bet. Coach Billy Napier of the university of Florida joining us on this national signing day. You are listening to the call find show podcast. Hey everyone, it's Adrian warden house key host of the roach pod where you'll get interesting conversations with the NBA's top newsmakers. When I started thinking front office, I went all in for office. Including the game's bright stars of today. It was something star Jayson Tatum. Jason, how are you? I'm doing good. How you doing? Behind the scenes stories, some coaches and executives. Things go well. It's like the you can get great when things go poorly at the president and I'll see you as well. And breakdowns from analysts and insiders doesn't seem Philly is in all that much of a rush. Listen to the world by wherever you get your podcast. Nick Saban recently, I think within the last 30 minutes in Tuscaloosa. I just hope that it doesn't get to where name image and likeness deals are created for high school players to get them to go to a particular institution. And I'm not accusing anybody of that. I'm not saying anybody did that. That's not why I'm saying this. I'm just saying philosophically, I think it's great. The players can earn the right to make money through name image and likeness when they're on a college team. I just hope it doesn't get to that point because then you open up a whole new can of worms when it comes to recruiting. I think we're already there, but anyway, welcome back to the program, let's talk to Jeff in Columbus, Ohio. Hello, Jeff. What's going on, Paul? Jeff, we are.
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"Wherever you listen. And we welcome you back in on this national signing day. We are delighted to welcome back to our show, the head coach of the Gators coach Billy Napier coach. Thanks for making time. Congratulations on ending your first signing class. I know it never ends, but how do you feel today? Yeah, Paul, thanks for the opportunity to be here. Yeah, very pleased with the progress that we've made. I think we've been working about too much now. Obviously, adding players and lots of different ways, but also hiring a staff and it's been a great experience. I've been very impressed with gazelle, Florida. I've been very impressed with the university of Florida. So so far so good. I know, coach, you can only do what you have time for, but I'm just reading the experts and what they are saying. And many not all are complimenting you on really finishing very strongly putting a really good class together considering the lateness of your arrival and the situation that you were in, the program was in when you inherited it. Yeah, a lot of early mornings in late nights, but I'm thankful for our administration our staff. We've got a terrific group of people that have taken pride in their role and a lot of people contribute to the success that we've had so far. It's a big part of what we do. Evaluate in players recruiting players and certainly trying to build trust in great communication with the current players on the team. So a lot going on. Certainly been a great transition. Feel with problems, but we're excited about some of the opportunities that come with that. Coach, I know this ends today, this class, but in college football today it never ends. So what's next for you? I realized there will be a spring practice eventually, but in terms of off the field matters, where do you put your attention now? Yeah. We're right in the middle of phase one. We're off season program. Players are doing a really good job. Obviously, we lean on Mark hockey and his staff, Joe danos, Kelsey Gomes, Tony hill. We've got a terrific group of people there, great team in a development part of the organization. Our staff, our football staff and recruiting staff is getting ready to take about 5 days off. We got to move families, heck, my wife and kids are getting here Friday. And much of our staff is kind of going through the same thing. So a little bit of a transition time here. We'll start phase two when we get back to work. But, you know, so really excited and I've been impressed so far. I've heard a number of commentators that we have spoken to about your program, talk about the completeness of your operation, which is something you did before in your former stop. But a lot of folks in Gainesville have not seen anything quite like it. Could you explain your philosophy on the whole package that comes along with your coaching regime? Well, Paul, I'm thinking, I think you're talking about just the approach we've taken with the people that we've hired, have been fortunate to work with some of the very best in the profession. We're all products of our experience, the people that we've been around and really what we're trying to do here is create an organization of people where we can impact the player in lots of different ways. You know, we want to obviously be very competitive on the field. We want these young men to develop as football players, but more importantly, we want to work on their character, work hard on who they are as people and chase this education go really prioritize their education as a whole and create a unique experience. One that's different than anywhere in the country. And I think we've got a great product to sell. And we've put our organization together with that in mind. So I think that it's what's required to be competitive in today's college football dynamic. Kosher, I know the inverse of Florida had some announcements this week in relation to NIL and it is the topic du jour. Let's start with what's going on on your campus right now. Yeah, we're very fortunate. In that we have made a partnership with gator collective. Actually in today's dynamic with the revenue that's created through college football, the players are they've got an opportunity to benefit. They get a piece of the pie and certainly this is an avenue. Where they can earn compensation. On top of their scholarship and the cost of attendance in Austin money and all the things that come with that, so we've organized our people. Still very much a working progress, but I'm excited about that. I think it's unique. And we look forward to how that can impact our program and certainly impact the players. Coach many have commented about the current state of NIL some have been very critical, some have pointed fingers. I'm not asking you to do that, but I am asking you to describe the culture that is existing right now and the competitiveness of it and how you and I know you've alluded to it a minute ago, but how do you take this on, especially coming from a major state institution like the university of Florida? Well, it's a new dynamic. This is a completely new air in college football. I do think you're seeing programs in universities across the country, still adjusting. I think this thing evolves every day. It's changing every day. Everyone's trying to get out in front of it. We certainly have been aggressive at the university of Florida in this area. I'm excited about how it can impact the quality of experience that the player has. But I do agree with some of the things that I've heard out there relative to. What are the parameters?.
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"I also bet you don't hear any more of this because I have a feeling that somebody is going to intervene because the one thing that the conference does not need or coach is accusing each other of cheating. That's exactly right. Puts a black eye on the whole board. And the NIH all is going to do that. And gambling is going to do it. When gambling gets involved in things, things kind of go south I think. But who knows what's going on? I'm certainly hopeful for the football in general because I love it and followed it. Basically all of my life and you know it's just disheartening a little bit to see to see what's going on. Well, thank you very much for the call. We appreciate it. All right. Thank you. Let's talk to Lloyd next in College Station. Hello Lloyd. Hey, Paul, how are you doing today? We're doing well. Thank you. Yeah, just to go a little bit off of what ansley was just talking about. Seeing all the perception of the Brian Kelly the past couple of days and then seeing Jimbo with that fiery press conference, why do you think players maybe would lean more towards LSU than College Station? Just with that 5 star Harold Perkins just did. Yeah, that was a big deal. I think I don't know what caused him to decommit from a and M, but players, you don't know whether somebody else showed up that he did that he can't imagine him thinking anyone was a threat, but the only thing I could deduct is that Brian Kelly was fairly new. He liked Kelly. He liked his staff. And he made a change. It was a big pickup, though. A huge pickup for LSU though. There's no getting around that. That was a big deal. Let's continue. Johnny Mack is up next. Hey, Johnny. Hi, Paul. I just had to call in as an Alabama fan and note that the analogy I use with me and big Larry was wrong and that Georgia got it done, it was hard to beat Alabama twice and they got it done and I was wrong. So. Thank you. That really means a lot. Bubba is up next. Hey, bob, go right ahead. There's team money can buy gimbals got 33rd athletes come and drive and gold trans am just like bigger than coda. Blazing is low's kid's mind. Yeah, the thing about SMU for those who don't remember 30 5 years ago, everyone from the governor of Texas on down were buying players. They were already on they were already under, I think coming off of an NCAA probation, which put them in the death penalty window, they were told to stop it and they kept doing it. And that's why they were arrogant about it. They deserved it as penalty, but laid generally it's on like this is this something it's not went on other places. This is went on another big skull for years. It just happens to be legal now. And I'll tell you what legion is, I heard because gimbal told him he was going to kick their butt and he took a backup quarterback and then did it. And this is going to be a train it'll continue. They're not going to overlook a and I am. You're gave them a big sling happen to Georgia was losing ASCC championship because they got circled in the wagons came back and put a stamp on them. They better get used to losing football games. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. James is up next. Hey, James. Yes. Hey, bob, how you doing? We're doing great. Thank you. Yeah, I wanted to respond to Jim Bose press conference. And I almost run off road. I mean, it was just clear as day, but the three days, you know, now illusion and deflection classic, you know, became on YouTube website or whatever. But he went on and on about what a great score. Have you ever been to an alien game in a lot of blood and essentially saying all these players came to play buying a.m. as a great school, not wetting Nile? So apparently always great Ford 5 star players turned down and I wanted to go to him. It really brings up what did you say? 800,000 for the last year. And it really didn't a and IL come about Paul? July 1st. Do you want to first? When was your enrolled in school in what football team before then? So he came to Alabama before NIH. The one. Going to Alabama because of the United states, deflection on, oh, well, I know how some of these coaches are essentially reflecting off of. And we walk everybody from the basketball game, Florida beating Missouri. We have had quite an afternoon here. Mostly dominated by Jimbo Fisher. We'll get to him in a second. It is national signing day. We'll talk to coach Billy Napier in a few minutes, but while many of you are watching basketball, obviously a lot of you were with us. The story of the day has been Jimbo Fisher responding to allegations about his number one national signing class. It's been on your mind..
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"Like right directly in the flight path for helicopters flying in and out of D.C.. Told us the dog barking at deliveries high level intellectual conversation. Some gambling talk, talking with athletes, celebrities, musicians, and more. Also, we got my guy Stanford Steve rode shotgun, trying to keep me out of the ditches. Download and subscribe to SV pod wherever you get your podcast. We certainly appreciate review subscribe. All that good stuff. Really appreciate coach Napier joining us and I have to say, even though we have talked to him a couple of times, I thought he was he was extraordinary in his approach, very deliberate, very meticulous. And a different attitude about recruiting, especially. He didn't say that much in terms of words, but I thought he said a great deal, it's going to be a different era. That's Laura. They've had success there, but they haven't been able to sustain it. It just feels like this is a different time. Let's get some more thoughts and calls and heath is up next in Birmingham, a hell of heath. Hey, Paul. Hi there. I was just going to get your thoughts on how Jordan Davis underperformed in the SEC championship, but he's supposed to be the best player in the nation and ended up not being in the Heisman race. Well, heath ultimately, none of those guys did very well. And I think you find out that we have said this about will Anderson he's almost a one man wrecking crew, but we found out those Georgia guys working concert and none of them seemed like they were they distinguished themselves from anyone else. It was fairly it was incredibly disappointing performance to say the least. We got a tweet here. This is unfortunate billionaire is going to be much harder disliked than Dan Mullen. I agree. I mean, this guy does not I mean, you know, Dan moan, you either love the guy or you hated him. There was no in between. This guy, I don't want to say who he reminds me of. I'll just let you folks figure out who you think he reminds you of. But I heard a lot in that interview that pointed in a specific direction. Let's check out big Dave in South Carolina. Hello big Dave. Hey, Paul, I hope you're having a good day. Thank you. My son was Billy's right tackling room, made it farming. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, I was now Billy back then we knew that he would achieve something great. And I think he's done that and I think it's a home run hire for Florida. Yeah, I came away I thought he was he unlike Brent venables who went ahead and out at every school that he has dealt with in the past, Billy Napier was circumspect. And he could have had three or four jobs last year. And we all thought he was waiting for the right fee and where he thought he could be successful. And I think he's higher. The only problem I'll never say ever, but I guess I am now. Yeah, it's interesting. I can tell you there's some people out there in the SEC right now who are less than pleased to see him land at Florida from a specific recruiting standpoint. And he has a way. And I think we'll learn more in the future and at some point, pretty good idea of some of the schools that he held off because he wanted to make sure he got the right offer. Let's go to Andy and Tennessee. Hello, Andy. Hello, how you doing, Paul? Hey there. Listen. I'm sitting here looking at the non bowl games SEC are going to play in. I think I represent about 70% of your listeners and maybe about 10% of your callers and that I have one favorite team, Alabama, rot, and then it's an SEC baby. I'm talking about I won't be able to be successful. And with our two teams, our two top teams go into the playoffs, it seems like we've ratcheted it down to our third teams playing somebody else's second team and now I'm wondering then we're going to get coughed in this fiscal analysis that says the SEC is not any good. Well, that's ridiculous. Andy, the real issue in the ball game is who's going to show up and that players across the country are bailing out even for the rose bowl. Do you own or rent your home? Sure you do. Fortunately, Geico makes it easy to bundle your home and car insurance. It's a good thing too. Because having a home is hard.
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"Service. It's about building relationships. It's about selling the university of Florida, the history, the tradition, the iconic players and coaches, top 5 public institution, in a great part of the country. So we've got a lot to sell here. I think it's a valuation first and it's recruitment second. And then once the player gets to campus, it's all about development. It's all about intangibles. We're going to be system oriented. You know, and I think that's the part that excites me here. I think there's a great opportunity and we're certainly excited about the investment administration and the vision here to put this thing back together. Gosh, happy you've been part of some very successful programs, including the most successful in college football. Is there any reason why the university of Florida can't recruit at the same level as those who are at the very top every single season? I would like to think that we can recruit with anybody. We're the university of Florida. I think there's just so much to sail, right? I think the key here is that we have a team first mentality, we're objective in our approach. We evaluate well, then we go to work and recruit and like I mentioned before. I think we can go toe to toe with any institution in the country and certainly that's our intention. Coach, you mentioned leaning on people along the way. I think we would be interested in hearing what you've learned through this process and what has inspired you to get to where you are today. Well, I think you start with my dad. You know, I'm a son of a high school coach. I grew up in chatsworth, Georgia, and northwest part of the state. Observed him in my young life impact tons of people. I think that's one of the great things about the game of football is we're giving this platform, there's no question that young people care about the game, their competitive, but while we're coaching this game, I think we can impact these players as people. So I learned that from my dad, I would like to think that we're taking the football plan that we learned from some outstanding coaches throughout my career, but we're going to use my people plan. We're going to use my approach to people. You know, I think the combination of those two things can position us to have success. You know, Paul, a lot of times, when people ask me about the head coaches, then I've worked for one of the things that gets overlooked is the number of assistant coaches and some of the best support staff members in the entire country that we've had an opportunity to work with. So that network of people has been critical. You know, it's allowed us to have success in the past. We're all a product of the experiences we've had and the people that we've been exposed to. I'm certainly no different, right? I'm a product of my environment. As you get, as you move through this process, I'm sure there's so many things going on around you. What are you hoping to learn from the team that you have inherited, which let's be honest, you may have won its last game, but really struggled down the stretch. Well, a lot of one on one conversations, you know, start with the players, right? I think it's important that we identify those people that have experienced this, right? They've been had a chance to catch up with a few players that practice today. So, you know, we're going to do this one day at a time. We're going to do it one person at a time. And I think it's important that we listen to the people that we're here. What did they learn? What was done well, where did the train get off the tracks? You know, and we apply those lessons, right? We're going to bring in a new group of people, new energy, a new plan, but I think we've got to look back and see because there's been a lot of significant things done here. I think there's been a lot of quality accomplishments. We can learn from the good, the bad and the ugly here. And that's the approach we're going to take. Finally, coach, everyone knows about the success of the university of Florida and rightly or wrongly in recent time it rests with two coaches. Steve spurrier in urban Meyer. And it's a mystery to all of us who watch this every day. Why this program has not been more successful. I realized the past is not your concern, but if any thoughts do you have on why the university of Florida hasn't consistently been at the top along with several other schools in the SEC? I think that's a great question, Paul. And it's one that I spent a lot of time on. You know, when evaluating this situation and can't far to get back to the success they've had in the past, right? So that list is probably too specific for me to go into, but I do think there are very specific things that can be done better here. I'm excited about this administration. They completely bought into our vision here. We're getting ready to build an unprecedented organization top to bottom. You know, they bought into that vision in the interview process, we're going to build a special experience, an elite student athlete experience. It's going to be player based. You know, I think you've got to keep people at the core of what you do. We're going to surround these players with great people. That are really good at what they do that really have an authentic care for the player. We're going to work our tail off and recruiting and evaluating when we get them here. We're going to have a very specific plan for their development. So the game's about the players, right? And I coach for the players. I'm excited about our plan. I've been fortunate to work with some of the best in the entire country. We're going to implement those lessons that we learned along the way. But I do think there's a different level of commitment here than there has been in the past from a facility standpoint and an infrastructure standpoint. Coach will leave it there, but we have so many more questions. I know you've got a lot to do, but we deeply appreciate you making time for us here today. And all the very, very best. Paul, thanks so much for covering the Florida Gators, man. We appreciate it. We hope to see you soon on the coach of the Gators. Billy Napier, his first conversation with us, days after being formally introduced. And we are going to take a short break..
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"Guest. She is Billy Napier. He's been with us before, but never as the head coach of the university of Florida, coach. If you're thank you for your time. I know it's been a crazy couple of weeks since story broke of how are you? And what's going on down there? Paul, I'm doing a great man and I just checked one of the things off my bucket list. So I was just hoping you'd call me when I was at the university of Louisiana, but you never did. So I got that logo on my shirt now. And I'm certainly humbled that you've given us this opportunity. Now, coach, I hate to start off correcting the head coach of the university of Florida. But we did talk to you there once or twice. But we talked to you about a year and a half a year ago, right before the season. And we talked a little bit about your day as Clemson and Alabama and you must have just forgotten because you do so many interviews. Well, you're probably right, Paul. Certainly done my fair share here lately too. Well, whether one thing I hope, but whether you have been on this program, I hope this is the first of many as the gator coach because we are really eager and I just heard from one of my friends, who's covered the Gators for many, many years before you were even born, and he told me how excited everybody is down there. So tell us, going back to the moment you got this call, what has it been like not only dealing with the excitement of taking the job you had to coach in a championship game, which you won, and now you're off recruiting. How have you been able to process all of this in the last couple of weeks? Well, it's humbling, first of all, you know, I think it was a challenge. To coach in the championship game and certainly felt obligated, right? I think there's a certain sense of loyalty there to those players that administration and certainly the staff there to finish the job. You know, I think that's been the big thing here the last few years is I did not feel like the job was complete. And I'm so thankful for that group of players. The leadership that we had on the team and certainly the staff, their ability to focus, avoid the distractions and to finish that game. And when the conference championship, I think it was the first time in 53 years and certainly a direct reflection of that administration and the commitment to their vision. And a lot of fun, man. I thought we impacted a lot of people while we were there. And certainly ready for the next challenge. Coach, I know you're focused on Florida now, but I have found it interesting over these years to see your name connected to many jobs and density you stay where you did, which would lead all of us to conclude that you are waiting for something that you were being patient, which is hard to do when you're an ascending coach. How did you turn down other opportunities and what went into your thought process? Well, a lot of prayer goes into these decisions. I think it's important to realize that these decisions don't just affect me and my family, but they affect hundreds of people. Certainly affected the current team, affect the future team. They affect the staff and their families. So really diligent about having conversations with people that I trust some of my mentors and the profession and certainly a lot of prayer. But you know, I think that I had a really good job. I worked for a great administration, doctor Savoy, doctor Maggie, were outstanding. Really enjoyed the community there and laugh yet, and acadiana, the people there, the culture there. And I felt like there were so many individual stories in those locker rooms. I think the job wasn't complete. Not with the people and the job wasn't complete on the field. So we worked hard there. We were chasing down Appalachian state there and certainly to kind of culminate that four years of work with the 12th win. 12 in a row was a special moment there to host the conference championship game. And I'm really a special moment for that group of people that had worked so hard. Talking to coach Billy Napier, the new coach of the Florida Gators coach since you were introduced earlier in the week. I'm guessing there have been a number of things you've had to try to deal with. Hiring a staff. I'm sure his first and recruiting is equal to that. Let's talk about your staff and how it's coming along. I know there's been some big announcements and there's a lot out there in the rumor mill. What can you tell us? Well, I think it's the most important thing that we do. I think we've got to find people with integrity and character that have a sincere authentic care for the players. Certainly want to level of expertise in a competence and the job that we're asking them to do. And then within this recruiting footprint, I think it's going to all work. So it's a big puzzle. It's the most challenging part of the job and certainly the most important. I think the people that we add to the team starting with the staff and then certainly the players will have a lot to do with our success here. So we're going to be very patient. We're going to be diligent in our process. We've added some outstanding people so far. Certainly some more to come. And we look forward to announcing those as they come in. Let's talk about recruiting because it has been a topic at the university of Florida while you were winning championships in Louisiana. What is your what is your approach and philosophy about recruiting? Well, I think the first thing you do is you start with the evaluation process, right? I think you've got to have a very efficient system. And you certainly have to be on the same page. I'm very much involved in evaluation process. Watch each player. You know, we have a very specific step by step approach with the personnel department, the position coach to coordinator and certainly the area code. So, you know, I think the key here is that we get our feet on the ground. We've refined this process over the last four years. We're going to hire competent people in that area. We're having an entire personnel department, much like the National Football League. Once you decide who you think is good enough to play for the Gators, then it's about recruitment..
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"And a football we've looked forward to in this state for a while. Well, listen, going after recruits, it's all a matter of perception. I've heard he's a great recruiter. And it's not who you go after. It's what you bring in. Right. So again, I mean, he was hired for a reason. He was hired because he's an up and coming coach. He's got a lot of energy and he's got a commitment to recruiting. Dan mellin told me the other day when we were together in Atlanta that the perception about his recruiting, it was a little bit overblown. Now he helped create that misperception or perception, but ultimately he was a top ten recruiter, but to be successful at Florida, you better be higher than that. Thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Let's check in with Ryan in Oklahoma. Hello, Ryan. Howdy Paul, how you doing? Hey. So I'll just check out the OU football Twitter and they have hired a defensive coordinator is the defense coordinator who was at Vanderbilt last year. Ted roof. And I don't know anything about this guy. It looks like he was terrible at duke. And they went oh and on. He was defense coordinator at Vanderbilt and he's been an analyst at Clemson. I'm trying to get some more information. I remember Ted Ruth was I think he was at auburn once. He is a longtime veteran defensive coordinator. He's been a lot of places. And when I encountered him years ago, he had a good reputation. I mean, you're not going to have a good reputation being the defensive coordinator at Vanderbilt in recent years. So don't hold that against him. I'll see if I get you a little bit more. But I do know he has a good rap. And certainly, remember, when Brent venables is hiring a defensive coordinator, it's probably not the most critical position considering what his skill set is. We'll take a break, Billy Napier joining us.
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"Good afternoon, we've made it to Friday. Yes, we have and the weekend the weekend without a lot of college football. We have one game in a Heisman Trophy announcement, although that will be more of a coronation. Let's get right to the headlines before we introduce our guest list and it is not good. We were afraid of about this, but Josh Joe lost the report came out yesterday, confirmed late last night. And another Alabama starter out for the playoffs. Speaking of our dabo lost his defensive coordinator earlier in the week to Oklahoma, his AD radakovich to Miami, and now his OC, second time he's lost an OC had co O sees a couple of years ago. One went to a USF now. Tony Elliott heading to Virginia. The dynasty in trouble. What about chip Kelly? Pete Thomas with some interesting news about Oregon's hunt if they're patient. The buyout drops from 9 million to zero on January 15th. Can they wait another month to save $9 million? What would you do to save $9 million in a month? I'm not really sure I've ever had to deal with that. But maybe some of you understand the predicament organ is in. And from USA Today, coaching salaries, you're still going up, including assistant coaches. We'll talk a little bit about that later. In the program. Steve berkowitz later in the show, we also have a Keenan Reynolds former QB at navy. I don't know why I'm going in reverse order, but John summerall, Kentucky coach, now he's at Troy. And the head ball coach at the university of Florida, making his first appearance here and maybe coming up for air after a week of recruiting Billy Napier. Just days ago, coaching a championship game, now he's all over recruiting for the Gators and he will join us in about 30 minutes and we really look forward to it. We talked to coach Napier before as at Louisiana, but never as the Florida head coach. We thank you all for being here on a Friday afternoon. Let's get to some phone calls. And begin with Kathy, who is in Georgia. Hello, Kathy. Hi, Paul. I haven't called you in several weeks because I was everybody to get out how Alabama was done when I was going to lose and have Georgia's going to win, and I'll buy what we saw the results. But all the bull crash should start now because Georgia did not win because there's no excuse. We didn't want it bad enough. We did not win it. Kirby is called the smart hate smart enough that he would have put JT and there's some reason manly or physically JT could not go in is what I think would reason because Kirby would have played by a problem. He did in other games and he would just stop and watch it wrong. So I think that's what's wrong and I'll go and let the other people but Monday or Monday next week I'm gonna call you with my Christmas list for the ACC. I look forward to that, Kathy, you'd be well. James is up next to hello James. I do it. James, we are all doing great. Thank you. Excellent. And excellent. Will Paul, I'm on the road. Two ladies again. It's a stressful eyeball. So where are you right now, James? Where am I? Was that a hard question? I am training east on highway 14, headed towards prat Alabama. Okay. You have been on 14 parts. I'm pretty sure I have, yeah, I've covered the roads of Alabama quite extensively in my youth. You know, I've located you go home here in my little hometown. Oh, really? Give me the details. I'm looking for a new house. Well, I mean, you can get in this thing cheat. Okay. There's so while the realtor yesterday when I talked to him. So what the size and what's he asking price? Okay. Honestly, can not give you the square footage. The home has been remodeled over the years and what used to be the garage is now the kitchen. Okay, so what are we talking about here? I mean, how much money? Well, the ass comprised, gosh, I shouldn't say this on the radio. But it's a 125,000. 125,000. Could I put ten down and pay the rest 30 year mortgage? Should I should I call the 84 ball? Do they stop? Do they still? Okay, yeah, 'cause I remember my parents bought a house on 30 year mortgage. What do you think about the suspension of the mandate? The vaccine mandate? Correct. And the fact that auburn university is backed off pushing out their football coach. Well, first of all, you have heard this. Well, first of all, it was a decision of the governor. It wasn't auburn university. And I have no issue with it at all. Well, Paul, I mean, I don't want to disagree with Paul found mom on his side. You're welcome to do whatever you are, but the governor made the decision. She's the chief executive officer of the state of Alabama. It was going with what the governor did. Army university was more impressed with what the federal judge did when he postponed the mandate. Let me assure you, I'm not following that closely. And it really doesn't matter. It makes one way or the other. So I'm not in favor of getting rid of a football coach over a vaccine mandate. But you're welcome to. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. And thanks for the real estate information. Let's check out Jack, who is in Florida. A hell of Jack. Hi, how are we doing today? We are doing well. Thank you. That was even not the important part. With a coach name coming on later, and what he's done in about two weeks that Florida is just now getting there about a week ago. You ever seen a coach go this hard after assistant? Without even really meeting with a lot of people. Yeah, I mean, you have to tell me what he's doing. I'm in the dark in terms of what he did. The offensive coordinator he's picked up about three or four other assistant head coaches. No one after recruits more than anybody has since urban left. And a football we've looked forward to in this state for a while. Well, listen, going after recruits, it's all a matter of perception. I've heard he's a great.
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"billy napier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
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Coaching search updates: Kevin Steele the favorite at Auburn
"Obviously we're in the middle. Coaching carousel to and i think the most interesting one right now is auburn I think they spent twenty one point. Five million dollars to buy out gus malzahn. We could argue whether he should have been fired or not the end of the day. He lost the momentum there and they the boosters put the you know got out the hat and collected the money and they fired him. So you think okay. You're gonna fire Coach gus malzahn. All that money. You're going to want to go out and get like the splashes possible coach. You can get tell us who's actually leading the coaching search right now as we reported this morning. That sources are telling me that the front runner for this job right now is defensive coordinator kevin steele and while that may blow some people's minds. He has some very very influential people at auburn who are big believers in him and in his corner at auburn. Especially that matters right so look We have a story up but the athletic now about who's in the mix there and the ones. I think one of the people who is really a big contender against kevin steele on this front is lane. Kiffin at ole miss But i think he would have a hard time turning that job down. I think he's obviously a big name. Now he's foreign four. It's it's interesting in that. I think a saturday's game between ole miss and lsu doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot. You know outside of those two programs. But i think it may may need a little bit of something potentially at auburn as crazy as it sounds because for some people at auburn i think they could shape it and saying all right kevin steele dreadful run as the head coach at baylor twenty. Plus years ago he was one and thirty one in big twelve. Play at baylor is a long time ago but people. I've talked to down there have made the case where you know what at had a bad record. The first time he was a head coach and he just won a national title a year ago. And my my counter. That was well. He did have to times as interim pretty lengthy runs where he was at least able to show people he's evolved and grown and those people said look a people at auburn feel like kevin steele's been the guy who's hold it together for them the last few years he is very well respected within the scc And so also know how. Attractive is lane to auburn. He did a really good job at fau their foreign You know if he loses to. Lsu's not very good this year. He's foreign five. I think probably diminishes a little bit No its first year. It wasn't like anybody expected out all messed great. But he's definitely a candidate As billy napier from louisiana Maybe who freezes is somebody that that auburn would push for. I think and you still have steve sarkisian there. You know also in the state of alabama So it's a really interesting. Search in auburn is wildly unpredictable. What does but From what i heard they would love to have a coach Decided upon by the beginning of next week