The weekend is finally here with new enthusiasm and excitement, but one thing that is still the same is the Florida Gators’ condition in the ongoing season. In today’s game, the team is trailing behind with a high margin of 3-42 against the Texas Longhorns. This has again put Florida Gators head coach Billy Napier’s future with the team in hot water.

Today, during the game, a fan expressed his dissatisfaction with Billy Napier and his coaching style, which has put the Gators in a tricky spot, saying, “If Billy Napier doesn’t get points on the board right now, I’ll go to Gainesville and fire them all myself.” The surprising part is that despite the team’s poor performance, the Gators director announced that Billy Napier will stay in the program next year.

Though the decision was heavily criticized by the fans, one of the NCAA great came to the fore to support this decision. Nick Saban said, “Here’s the thing that I really appreciate, that somebody out there in Florida’s administration recognized the fact that Billy Napier has done a heck of a job coaching this team. They’ve had a lot of adversity, a lot of injuries, a lot to overcome. But yet every game, they start out and they play great in the first half, which tells me that they’ve done a great job of preparing their team with the players that they have.”

The Florida Gators were already standing on a four-win, four-loss series, and now, after this game, not only has the team lost the hope of at least getting Bowl eligibility but has also started the question raging in the world of CFB since the start of the season. Is Billy Napier the right choice for the team?

Well, there is no right answer to that; the team has been struggling since the start of the season to maintain consistent gameplay, and with time they are only performing worse and worse. But this time even fans couldn’t control themselves to give more hard time to Billy Napier and the team.

Fans fuming at Billy Napier and the team

Florida Gators’ performance has started a new kind of hate for the team and made the fans much more furious about Billy Napier and his execution with the team. No wonder they are not happy with them; their gameplay instigated fans to ask Napier to give up his position by himself, saying, “Billy Napier might fire himself after this game!” It looks like they want him to forget about the $26 million buyout and save himself from embarrassment.

Well, Billy Napier is not the only one who gets trolled by the fans; the person behind his presence on the team also gets equal hate. A fan said, “@ScottStricklin hates you so much right now. Fire the damn PE teacher, Billy Napier!!!” Scott Stricklin is the director of the university, and his recent announcement on Napier’s tenure is only creating problems for the team.

Talking about the Florida Gators game against the Longhorns, the team was leading the Gators with a 42-0 score till the start of the third quarter. Now you can understand why the intensity of the backlashes is this high. Another X user highlighted the same thing, saying, “What a show of force for a coach on the hotseat. Maybe Lagway is worth the 42 points. Two reasonable (non-reactionary) things should happen too. Fire Napier and Stricklin today.”

The team lost their star quarterback, DJ Lagway, to a hamstring injury in the second quarter of the matchup against Georgia. And now they are about to lose the game. If not sheer frustration, what else can you expect from the fans? Even this fan reflected the same emotions on Billy Napier and the Gators’ director tenure with the team, saying, “Napier should be fired before the team gets on the plane! Stricklin as well! Dumpster fire 🔥”

Given the disappointment that the matchup against the Longhorns was, it leaves us with the question: Will things improve in the coming weeks for Billy Napier and Co.?