{"id":502850,"date":"2025-10-20T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=502850"},"modified":"2025-10-20T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:25:17","slug":"gators-dismiss-head-coach-napier-after-a-3-4-start-to-the-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/gators-dismiss-head-coach-napier-after-a-3-4-start-to-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Gators dismiss head coach Napier after a 3-4 start to the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gators decided to sack boss Billy Napier at the end of the weekend, 24 hours after an error-filled victory vs. Mississippi State that featured more head-scratching calls and offensive lulls like those that marked much of his 4 years as head coach of the school.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic director Scott Stricklin made the decision to fire the manager despite the 23-21 win that improved Florida\u2019s record to 3-4, but the Gators were very close to losing that match too before DT Michai Boireau picked off a pass in the last seconds of the game as Mississippi State was getting very close to getting on FG range and beat Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators must pay Napier almost 21 million dollars, with half of that money to be paid to him within a month. The rest of the head coach will receive in the next 3 years as Florida still pays their ex-boss, Dan Mullen.<\/p>\n<p>Billy finishes his career as head coach of the school with a negative record \u2013 22-23 in 4 campaigns, featuring 12-16 in SEC play. Napier was 5-17 vs. ranked schools, including 0-14 in their visits. Fans wanted from him to give up his playcalling role, but he decided against that and costed him his job.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Top landing spots for Billy Napier after being fired <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bGUBQsz9HE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bGUBQsz9HE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hard Rock Bet (@HardRockBet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardRockBet\/status\/1979990677409734855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gators decided to sack boss Billy Napier at the end of the weekend, 24 hours after an error-filled victory vs. Mississippi State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":502851,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26916,26915],"news_category":[16705,16715],"gn_keywords":[26918,26917],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Florida fired the manager after the disappointing start.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502852,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/502850\/revisions\/502852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502850"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=502850"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=502850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}