LAFAYETTE, La. -- Billy Napier isn't in a hurry. The football coach sits in his office at the University of Louisiana on a Friday morning earlier this month, leans back in a red leather chair and waits patiently for the question he knows is coming: What's he still doing here?
It's blunt, but there's a sense the 42-year-old can see through useless subtlety. So, sure, wonder aloud why arguably the hottest commodity on the coaching market remains at a relative outpost less than an hour's drive from in-state powerhouse LSU but a world away from all the money and resources and bells and whistles afforded to college football's elite.