New JMU Head Coach Billy Napier

[EastHallApp]

Proof these dudes are just... different. Florida has paid him $10 million of his $21 million buyout, then he's going to get $2.75 million for the next four years. Why, in the name of all that is good, would you go back into coaching immediately?!?!?! Go home! Travel! Play golf! Learn French! Why would you force yourself into the churn of recruiting and scheming and shaking hands with boosters and worrying about the portal and NIL???

Because he is a coach and that is what they do. If you are trying to improve your rep why not JMU. Best team in the Sunbelt, most money in the belt or darn close to it. Great AD, and a strong fanbase. If offered my bet is he would take it. It would put him back in the P4 in 2 to 3 years.

That’s what I’m saying. These coaches are psychopaths, or at least need some serious therapy.
If you just got $10 million dropped in your bank account, who cares about your “rep”?

Would you rather have a coach who's passionate about what he does, who's ultra-competitive, who cares about making your program the absolute best it can be? Or a coach who would prefer to be lounging around and taking vacations but stays on the job so he can keep cashing checks?

[Apptiger]

If the Tulane job is in play, wouldn’t that be a better get for him than JMU? Just thinking about resources, conference, recruiting, etc.

Nobody would take JMU over Tulane if both were on the table. My guess is Tulane moved on.

Napier never came up at Tulane. They had a list and he wasn't on it. Front Runners are said to be Blake Baker, LSU DC and Tulane grad. Tyson Helton HC at WKU, Shannon Dawson OC at Miami, Charles Huff and a couple of others. Huff is considered a long shot.

Baker is considered the favorite per the local press (today anyway). Baker has already been offered the job at Memphis and would have to take a substantial pay cut to take it so that's unlikely.
If Baker leaves LSU that will leave the Tigers with no DC and will probably lose some defensive staff too. Baker wants to be a head coach at a P4 team. IS his path to that through Tulame or as a DC on a Natty winning LSU? The latter worked for a lot of coaches Smart, Lanning......

[Cro-Magnon App]

The coaches he worked with and the experiences he had at Florida should make Napier a better coach.