{"id":329109,"date":"2023-09-07T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=329109"},"modified":"2023-09-07T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:00:00","slug":"brian-kelly-billy-napier-dabo-swinney-just-a-bad-start-or-are-they-on-shaky-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=329109","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kelly, Billy Napier, Dabo Swinney- Just A Bad Start, Or Are They On Shaky Ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need to talk about the way some of these prominent college football coaches flopped in week 1, and determine whether it was just a bad start, or if the coach is on shaky ground.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-brian-kelly\">Brian Kelly<\/h2>\n<p>LSU came into the season ranked #5 despite finishing last year&#8217;s SEC slate getting blown out by Texas A&amp;M and Georgia, and losing six players to the NFL Draft. The ranking was all based on hype&#8230; and there&#8217;s nothing\u00a0wrong with hype if you can back it up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But last Sunday, with no NFL games and the entire football-loving world watching, Florida State outscored LSU 31-7 in the second half, and Seminole QB Jordan Travis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePortalReport\/status\/1699101912266678453?s=20\">personally murdered Jayden Daniels&#8217; preseason Heisman hype.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this just a bad start, or is Brian Kelly on shaky ground?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jupiterx-oembed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lmao <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f62d.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f62d.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> Brian Kelly is a hidden gem<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mKwVLSpZPG\">pic.twitter.com\/mKwVLSpZPG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nolehighlights (@Jaythealbum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaythealbum\/status\/1699477032462160382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>That all depends. Outside of Georgia, LSU has one of the friendliest schedules for a supposed championship contender in the country. It&#8217;s completely reasonable to expect the Tigers to turn the page on this L and steamroll through the next seven games before they roll into Tuscaloosa on November 4th.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This loss might be the humbling the entire Tigers team needs, head coach included.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-billy-napier\">Billy Napier<\/h2>\n<p>Billy Napier and the Florida Gators could not have picked a worse time to get physically dominated by a shorthanded Utah roster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Swamp Kings documentary that whitewashed Urban Meyer&#8217;s image and waxed poetic about the mid-2000&#8217;s championship teams just dropped. You can&#8217;t be out here giving people a reason to think about their ex.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jupiterx-oembed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billy Napier is 0-4 &amp; has been outscored 130-76 in his last 4 games as Florida&#039;s head coach: <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f62c.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2c\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 31-24 Loss to Vanderbilt<br \/>&#8211; 45-38 Loss to Florida State<br \/>&#8211; 30-3 Loss to Oregon State<br \/>&#8211; 24-11 Loss to Utah <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fkiXKDzPua\">pic.twitter.com\/fkiXKDzPua<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; College Sports Only (@CollegeSportsO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollegeSportsO\/status\/1697599116585423050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Billy Napier is a good man, and a good coach- but these Florida fans want a bad man that gets the job done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Florida State&#8217;s&nbsp;last two games had them getting manhandled by the supposedly soft Pac-12, and the Gators went 0-4 against ranked SEC opponents last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got issues at quarterback, on and off the field, and quarterbacks are supposed to be part of Napier&#8217;s specialty.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think this ground is shaky, and if the Gators lose back-to-back games to Vanderbilt, who they play on October 7th, that ground in Gainesville might just open up and swallow Napier whole.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dabo-swinney\">Dabo Swinney<\/h2>\n<p>Clemson just got smashed by Duke- meanwhile former Clemson QB DJ Uiagalalei&nbsp;put up five touchdowns in his Oregon State debut.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you pay attention to the national media, you would think the sky is falling in on Dabo. You would never guess that this loss just snapped a 12-game winning streak in the ACC.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for that is that Dabo has been in direct opposition to the national narrative that has been supported by a media entity that is increasingly made up of former athletes, and to be honest, we&#8217;re all sick of his bullshit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jupiterx-oembed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DJ Uiagalelei&#039;s father voiced his opinion on Dabo Swinney&#039;s stance on the Transfer Portal &amp; NIL<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f37f.png\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf7f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LateKickJosh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LateKickJosh<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FK2hfUR7cV\">https:\/\/t.co\/FK2hfUR7cV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nh0Owu5uDp\">pic.twitter.com\/Nh0Owu5uDp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; On3 (@On3sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3sports\/status\/1699531047979864407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He&#8217;s not a bad man. On the contrary, he&#8217;s an extraordinarily\u00a0good man that has confused his personal morality with an immoral structure of profiting\u00a0off of uncompensated labor. It&#8217;s what made him say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/college-football\/news\/dabo-says-he-may-quit-college-football-if-players-get-paid\">he may quit if players ever got paid<\/a>, without a hint of irony that he&#8217;s cashing biweekly checks somewhere in the six digits. It&#8217;s also what has made him reject the transfer portal in an age when his school&#8217;s brand recognition is at an all-time high, while demonstrating the pinnacle of hypocrisy by not speaking against his school for flirting with jumping conferences for a bigger payday.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, if it feels like people are rooting for Dabo to lose, it&#8217;s because they might be. Some of that ground shaking in Clemson might be manufactured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it could turn real if the Tigers start 0-2 in ACC play for the first time since 2010. Clemson has Florida State on September 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/unafraidshow.com\/2023\/09\/07\/brian-kelly-billy-napier-dabo-swinney-just-a-bad-start-or-are-they-on-shaky-ground\/\">Brian Kelly, Billy Napier, Dabo Swinney- Just A Bad Start, Or Are They On Shaky Ground?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/unafraidshow.com\">UNAFRAID SHOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>We need to talk about the way some of these prominent college football coaches flopped in week 1, and determine whether it was just a bad start, or if the coach is on shaky ground. Brian Kelly LSU came into the season ranked #5 despite finishing last year\u2019s SEC slate getting blown out by Texas [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Brian Kelly, Billy Napier, Dabo Swinney- Just A Bad Start, Or Are They On Shaky Ground? appeared first on UNAFRAID SHOW.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329111,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329109\/revisions\/329111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}