Sparse on specifics, Billy Napier lays out vision why Florida Football will be better

As has been the case in his two previous appearances at SEC Media Days, Florida Football head coach Billy Napier left the podium in Dallas after taking questions for 30 minutes without a bombastic quote that can easily be clipped and put onto a banner.

Instead, he offered a vision that the Gators are going to continue to be a process oriented team and if they can get their foundation correct that wins are going to follow.

Florida Football: On The Mic

Napier enters the 2024 season on the hot seat. You might have heard that once or twice. But Napier made it clear that rather than "chase wins" and take shortcuts in order to achieve those wins, Florida was going to continue to focus on the process of what it takes to be good and are going to take things one week at a time.

He was asked multiple times about their schedule and the fact they had a ton of close losses the past two years and he kept coming back to the need to keep putting in work off the field and eventually those close losses will turn into wins.

The only real specifics he got into as to what that looks like was his glowing praise of strength coach Tyler Miles and a belief that Florida's change in philosophy in the weight room (compared to former strength coach Mark Hocke) is going to put Florida in a better position to close out the games it couldn't in 2023.

Here is where we here at Hail Florida Hail wish we could have been in Dallas to ask the following follow up question:

A change in the weight was needed and we are on board with the move. However, Florida lost to Arkansas because they couldn't get their field goal unit out on the field in a organized manner. The Gators lost to Missouri because their safety was asked to play 30 yards off the line of scrimmage on 4th and 17 in conjunction with their backup linebacker being asked to drop 20 yards into pass coverage. Against FSU the Gators had all the momentum in the world before running a double reverse flea flicker that was designed differently compared to how everyone else in the country runs the play.

So, even if the Gators are bigger, faster, and stronger how can we as Gator fans have faith that those specific moments won't happen in 2024?

Florida opens their season on August 31 against Miami.