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Billy Napier Throws Shade At Florida Gators Fans After Blowout Loss To Rival Miami

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Florida Gators head coach Billy Napier is a dead man walking.

Fans know it. Players know it. And Napier himself probably knows it after Saturday’s 41-17 blowout loss to rival Miami that moved Napier to 11-15 as the Gators’ head coach.

But it appears that Napier is going to get his licks in before he goes. The third-year head coach took a shot at Florida fans on Monday when asked how his program moves forward following the loss.

“You gotta go to work on the football part,” Napier began his answer. “And I think we’ve got to become a more consistent team and we have to execute better. If we can focus on those things, and not necessarily what some guy in his basement’s saying in rural Central Florida on social media, then we got a chance to get better.”

On it’s face, the comment isn’t that bad.

Penn State coach James Franklin said earlier in the week that he’d like his players to stop using social media altogether during the season, but he realizes that’s unrealistic.

But Napier isn’t in the position to take any sort of shots at fans, even if he does have a point. In addition to his 11-15 record overall with the Gators, he’s now 0-3 all-time against rivals Miami and Florida State. Should he somehow survive until the end of the season, that record has a chance to move to 0-4.

(Though the Seminoles aren’t exactly looking like world-beaters.)

Unsurprisingly, Florida fans were not particularly pleased with Napier’s comment.

“Dude. You will not have a job half way through this season,” one wrote.

“The level of lack of humility and awareness Napier has is comical. Bro making fun of the fan base when you’re all time terrible as a coach is not your best play,” wrote another.

The comment may well have moved Napier to the top of the “first FBS coach to get fired” list.

And at this point, that would probably be an act of mercy.