TAMPA, Fla. — Talk to almost anyone with the Florida Gators about first-year coach Billy Napier, and you’ll hear comments like this one from offensive line coach Darnell Stapleton.
“Coach Napier is an awesome, man,” Stapleton said this spring. “Not even talking about football, not talking about X’s and O’s, just as a person.”
UF is counting on it. Napier’s personality will be pivotal in whether he can sidestep a problem that has plagued the Gators: coaching burnout.
