Steve Spurrier on Gators' loss: "I wish somebody would get mad on our sidelines."

One of the main headlines to emerge from Florida's loss to LSU was the five interceptions that DJ Lagway threw into the hands of Tiger defenders. Despite his struggles, Billy Napier never seemed in a mood to sit him down and put any of Florida's backups.

But one of the other feelings Gator fans have is the perceived pacifism from Napier, and former Gator coach Steve Spurrier had some thoughts about that this week.

Steve Spurrier would like to see more fight

Appearing on Another Dooley Noted Podcast, Spurrier touched on the loss to LSU and noted the struggles Lagway had:

"We threw too many passes. Obviously, when you don’t hit ’em, you threw too much. We had our chances, but five interceptions, you gotta throw five touchdowns to throw five interceptions."

But then the juxtaposition of Brian Kelly and Napier came up, and how Kelly reacted to Garrett Nussmeier throwing a mind-numbing interception of his own:

"I'll tell you one thing that tickles me. Brian Kelly, when Nussmeier threw that last interception, he went over and (chewed him out). You don't see a head coach get in the face of his Heisman-winning QB from the preseason... Brian Kelly is not afraid to get mad. I wish somebody would get mad on our sidelines."

Peace Treaty

This is no different than the critique we had last week when Napier dragged his feet on whether or not he was going to suspend Brendan Bett for spitting against USF.

While nobody is going to accuse the coaching staff of telling Bett to spit on people, when players get a soliloquy rather than a sideline chewing, players stop fearing consequences for not playing up to par.

This has been the case all throughout Napier's tenure, where something goes wrong, the camera pans to him, and he just has this look of "Huh, that's unfortunate."

The irony is that the one coach who did show a fight on Saturday, Jabbar Juluke, was suspended for three games for his actions in the pregame scuffle.