Billy Napier’s new edge at JMU? The culture he never had at Florida | Opinion
There's something beautifully normal for Billy Napier at James Madison: no drama. That will help Napier and former team Florida as it moves forward.
He knows what you’re thinking, and there’s no reason to push back. He failed . There, happy now?
“We can’t live in the past,” Billy Napier tells USA TODAY Sports. “But certainly, I have to evaluate all the things I could’ve done better. ” So let’s start there in the evaluation of why it didn't work at Florida , and why it could ― separately for Napier and Florida ― in the near future.
Because self-evaluation in its purest form eventually leads to self-actualization. That’s where this thing was pointed four years ago, when Napier was one of the hottest college football coaching candidates and chose Florida over LSU . Now he’s starting over deep in the Shenandoah Valley, off the Power Four grid at James Madison and no worse for the wear despite four brutal seasons in Gainesville.
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