Billy Napier
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This is a general question: how well do position coaches and assistant coordinators take being passed over when the OC or the DC move on?
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Don't know a lot about him but his HC was just fired and ASU's offense is somewhere around 40th nationally in most significant offensive categories. Nothing remarkable that I've seen - am I missing something?
Coached at Bama and Clemson, was the Clemson OC for two years...one great year and one not so great year. Read he was a pretty good recruiter. Coached WR on two of Bama's National Championship teams...that said...idk if he is that much better than Rahne
Like any profession, if an organization hires "externally" instead of "internally", the employee should realize that management has deemed them as unpromotable at the current time and should decided between (a) looking elsewhere for better opportunities or (b) sucking it up and tolerating the situation.
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it depends, some will just be thankful to still have a job, probably know that putting their butt out there more on the line makes them vulnerable. Some get all mad, dont see the forest for the trees and want to move on.
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What does his offense look like? Spread? Pro? The other consideration here is that aren't staffs allowed to now have a 10th coach? Maybe Franklin is looking to add talent for that spot.
Only 1 year at ASU. Averaged 427 yds (PSU averaged 453) and 31 points
Would have to get into the available talent and how well they recruited recently, but ASU's issues seemed to be more on the defensive side of the ball.
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The way they should, which ain't well. Now, a guy who's been around for two years will have a different perspective than one who's been around for ten. But getting passed over is nature's way of telling you that something's wrong.
his offenses at ASU have been ok, not spectacular and during his second year at clemson his offense averaged only 16 ppg after being a record setting offense the year before...so I'm not sure what to think.
Fair assessment, a lot of these guys can be "who knows," until they get into the system. We certainly don't have a dearth of talent to work with. I suppose he is no less of an unknown than JoeMo was when we hired him out of Fordham.
Here's a good, recent article on Napier. Some mixed signals from his previous work....Fired from Clemson, hired by Bama as an Analyst, but Saban didn't promote him to OC so he left. Saban did hire him back as WR coach. Interesting background.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ator-billy-napier-moving-on-at-arizona-state/
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ator-billy-napier-moving-on-at-arizona-state/
My initial thought on Napier was more sour because of his affiliation with Graham this year but the guy seems to have coached with the best programs and if there's one thing Graham did believe in, it was explosive offense. Give him PSU's talent and what could he do? May be more fair question to ask.
Being a great position coach doesn't mean you'd be a great Offensive Coordinator.
Hiring Napier could be a view into Franklin's vision of where the program is taking itself nationally. By this, I'm speaking a lot to recruiting. There seem to be a wealth of candidates to qualify for the OC position in terms of running the spread/RPO, but deeper look at Napier's background:
Napier is a guy from Georgia with coaching experience at Clemson and Bama...and just coming off a year recruiting Texas and California for ASU. I can see a ton of value in that that goes beyond play calling.
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Andrew Callahan, Cam Brown, Isiah Humphries, Gattis, KJ Hamler...
Keep in mind, entirely possible (and probably likely IMO) that Napier reached out to Franklin and not the other way around. His boss was just fired and one of the best OC positions in the country just opened up. Still an intriguing hire potentially if for no other reason than for the recruiting aspect.
well he does need to hire a 10th coach, and I dont know if he's promised that to one of the GA's or other guys. But I would like to see him bring Strollo back and have him coach the OG, C, and let ML coach the OT's. I think that would really help.
Hmm...promising a coaching job to a GA. Maybe that's not such a bad move. Could pay dividends down the road.
Serious question: How in the hell do you come up with BS like that?
I believe the followers are listed in chronological order if you're viewing on a browser (rather than the app):
https://twitter.com/coach_bnapier/followers
Larry Johnson didn't take it well.
BS like what? Promising someone a job?? Happens all the time
Or Strollo being a good coach? He is
