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Got schooled today by Lane Kiffen
Austin Simmons hands Billy another BRUTAL RECRUITING LOSS

I keep telling our fans Billy just isn’t the guy but all I get is ridiculed.
You just can’t tell my fellow fans the administration should have hired a proven head coach.
 
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He was a hot coaching up-and-comer when hired. Is he just a great mid-tier coach, or can he be a great elite coach. Mid-tier is official. He is a great mid-tier coach. He's definitley not a great SEC coach at present.

UF hit a grand slam with Urban (and CJ Leak and Tebow definitley made him look great). Last season they got hit by the pitch. If he's a big-time coach, they'll turn it around.
I don't expect it. His first half coaching against us last season was just bad decisions of the Butch Jones variety, probably worse.

He's a gambler. Spurrier and Hal Mumme were too. I think it is obvious which one Napier looks like so far.
 
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Honestly, Napier may be Florida's version of Botch Jones.

The guy looks and acts like a football coach.

That was enough to get him to this point. The difference between a T25 program and a Sun Belt, etc team is massive. The weaknesses in personalities and abilities start becoming very apparent.

I only hope you hold onto the guy for five years lol.
 
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Butch Zook has an absolutely brutal schedule in 2024. Not only will they probably be breaking in a new qb but out of conference games with UCF, Miami, FSU with sec schedule of UT, texas, lsu, georgia, ole miss, texas A&M ,MSU. They are fortunate to get 4 sec home games plus Georgia in Jacksonville but wonder if the swamp will be happy with 6 wins in year 3
 
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Gatoringa said:
Got schooled today by Lane Kiffen
Austin Simmons hands Billy another BRUTAL RECRUITING LOSS

I keep telling our fans Billy just isn’t the guy but all I get is ridiculed.
You just can’t tell my fellow fans the administration should have hired a proven head coach.
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What happened? I can’t seem to find anything
 
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stolitonic said:
Umm yeah.

A kid with at most two years of high school football behind him at the most critical position.

That homeschool aspect kind of concerns me also.

Know there are a lot more of those kids around now than there were when I was starting college, but those kids never really seemed to "fit in" very well.
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Tebow was home schooled...
 
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$h!++<rs full of 6's.
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So, home schooled, finished HS freshman year, SEC Freshman two years early.

I don't think I would trust Lane with my 16 17 (how can he be two years early at 17?) year old child. A young man playing for Lane's program should be as mature as possible.
He finished HS in one year (homeschool curriculum) and has 15 college credits? -per yahoo Sports

hmmm. Unless he is a prodigy ( or the curriculum is a joke), something is off.
Unusual situation to say the least.

We have kids drop out of my school often to go on a home school curriculum. They usually come back that many years behind.
Not many families are equipped for home schooling. I am a professional teacher with an advanced degree and I couldn't keep my child advancing in all subjects on grade-level and have a job too. It takes many hours per day to do it right, and my hat is off to parents that actually do it correctly. They are few and far between in my experience.
 
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SpookyAction said:
So, home schooled, finished HS freshman year, SEC Freshman two years early.

I don't think I would trust Lane with my 16 17 (how can he be two years early at 17?) year old child. A young man playing for Lane's program should be as mature as possible.
He finished HS in one year (homeschool curriculum) and has 15 college credits? -per yahoo Sports

hmmm. Unless he is a prodigy ( or the curriculum is a joke), something is off.
Unusual situation to say the least.

We have kids drop out of my school often to go on a home school curriculum. They usually come back that many years behind.
Not many families are equipped for home schooling. I am a professional teacher with an advanced degree and I couldn't keep my child advancing in all subjects on grade-level and have a job too. It takes many hours per day to do it right, and my hat is off to parents that actually do it correctly. They are few and far between in my experience.
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I’m enrolled in my local community college, filling up some *cough* gaps *cough* in my transcript before enrolling at UNCA.

In my biology class in spring, there were two 17-year-old homeschoolers who were dually enrolled, getting college credit (not AP.) Both graduated with associate degrees at the end of semester. I don’t know the details on one, but the other is starting at App State this fall as a junior majoring in math. (They’re 17; I’m 68. 🤪)

There are homeschoolers who are abysmally ignorant, due to their highly restricted curriculum. There are others whose parents pretend to homeschool as a means of shrugging off their responsibility to get their kids out of the house every morning. Most have a pretty decent education, often with some odd quirks, but that also happens in formal schooling. And then there are those like my classmates.

If the Simmons kid (? - I’ve sorta lost track lol) has college credit, I think we’re looking at someone like my classmates, unless it’s some super-sketchy pretend-college. If anything, I’d think the concern would be physical immaturity. Boys finish physically growing a lot later (older) than girls.
 
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VolNExile said:
I’m enrolled in my local community college, filling up some *cough* gaps *cough* in my transcript before enrolling at UNCA.

In my biology class in spring, there were two 17-year-old homeschoolers who were dually enrolled, getting college credit (not AP.) Both graduated with associate degrees at the end of semester. I don’t know the details on one, but the other is starting at App State this fall as a junior majoring in math. (They’re 17; I’m 68. 🤪)

There are homeschoolers who are abysmally ignorant, due to their highly restricted curriculum. There are others whose parents pretend to homeschool as a means of shrugging off their responsibility to get their kids out of the house every morning. Most have a pretty decent education, often with some odd quirks, but that also happens in formal schooling. And then there are those like my classmates.

If the Simmons kid (? - I’ve sorta lost track lol) has college credit, I think we’re looking at someone like my classmates, unless it’s some super-sketchy pretend-college. If anything, I’d think the concern would be physical immaturity. Boys finish physically growing a lot later (older) than girls.
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Lots of families are successful at homeschooling their kids, but I almost never see that because of where I teach. It is heartbreaking.
The one successful homeschooler I know from work is a savant. I really liked teaching him, and his mother had to quit her job to stay ahead of him. He might be like the kids you were in biology class with.

I went back to school in my 30s. I found it much easier to succeed than when I was young. Fewer distractions and I understood why I was there. I was an honor student first time I graduated, but I was 4.0 when I went back all through grad school.

I hope you are enjoying your experience.

Of course You're right. This kid could be on the level, and if so, it is extremely impressive.

I read he played varsity football when he was in 8th grade, and he was suspended for half the next season for doing it (breaking the rules, I guess). His father is a coach on his present HS team.
If he redshirts, he will be 18 his second season.
Lots of facts to understand in this story. Very different varsity and recruiting story for sure.
It sounds fishy, unless he is a very special young man.
 
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This kid is leaving UF's 2025 recruiting class to go to OM's 2023 recruiting class.?.
This story goes in all kinds of weird directions.

Since he is a 2025 recruit for UF, it is not such a huge loss ATM. It is another hit to Napier's good will. He is spending through that quickly.
 
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stolitonic said:
Umm yeah.

A kid with at most two years of high school football behind him at the most critical position.

That homeschool aspect kind of concerns me also.

Know there are a lot more of those kids around now than there were when I was starting college, but those kids never really seemed to "fit in" very well.
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Haha…homeschoolers are generally so much farther along socially it’s ridiculous. BTW…Tim Tebow was homeschooled. My daughter was home schooled(happens to be a highly successful violinist), one of her best friends was homeschooled and she’s a trauma surgeon. I know you were just parroting a “main stream” misconception but wow!!😂😂
 
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