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Losing assistants doesn’t necessarily say anything about Billy Napier

The longer time goes on, and the more Florida head coaching administrations I see, the easier it is to draw parallels between them. I can’t decide if it’s because most football coaches are cut from the same cloth, or if it’s because the seeming chaos of college football is more in the details than in the macro sense.

Billy Napier lost Patrick Toney to the NFL — a jump that Napier says was a dream of Toney’s for as long as he’s known him — and replaced him with Austin Armstrong. Napier has made a big deal about calling football “a relationship business”, and this is a prime example.