So long, Billy Napier.
You were a good man. You treated people right, you represented the University of Florida with class, and you molded young men who loved and respected you. You ran a clean program. You built an infrastructure that could’ve lasted a decade. You made players better people.
You did everything right as the head football coach of the Florida Gators — everything but win.
And that, of course, is why you were mercifully and finally fired on Sunday.
Florida football isn’t about grade-point averages and leadership seminars. Gator fans don’t measure success by effort or infrastructure; they measure it by excitement, by swagger, by scoreboard.