Last year, when Florida lost to Miami, we here at Hail Florida Hail called Billy Napier a "Snake oil salesman who had yet to find oil."
Some would claim his four-game winning streak to close out 2024 was proof he found oil, but we would argue it was a sign of fool's gold.
And so while one could paint a narrative that Florida was within a single play deep into the second half of flipping the script against Miami, that ignores why the Gators needed to flip the script in the first place.
Florida falls to Miami
Florida went into halftime with just one first down on offense.
One.
There are perfectly normal-sized families that have more children than Florida had first downs at halftime.
Don't let the touchdown drive the Gators put together in the second half fool you into thinking that the Gators ever had a shot in this game.
Napier spat into the face of Gator Nation and didn't give up play-calling duties this offseason, despite a decade's worth of data that would indicate he should have.
The end result was Florida running a two-yard hitch route on a 4th and three when it seemed like maybe the Gators had a chance.
And on yet another night when the defense kept the opposition to under 20 points while things still mattered, it was Billy Napier's offense, the unit that he refuses to let someone else run, that cost the Gators the game.
All the "Spot the Ball" talk, all the scoffing at giving up the play calling, all the "This was a great week of practice" discussion fell apart as Florida's offense looked like it would struggle to score against Bishop Sycamore.
If you were keeping score at home, Florida was 0-13 on 3rd down in this game.
You know things are bad when Kirk Herbstreit is digging your grave mid game after he spent half of GameDay gassing up the Gators and how they took DJ Lagway out to dinner.
Florida is 1-3 on the season. Billy Napier is 20-22. Napier is never going to find oil in Gainesville because he doesn't know how to. The issue is that he refuses to allow anyone else to find the oil either.
And if Scott Stricklin thinks anything is going to improve in the long term, then we here at Hail Florida Hail have oceanfront property in Arizona to sell him.