{"id":434798,"date":"2024-11-09T18:09:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T23:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=434798"},"modified":"2024-11-09T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T23:09:23","slug":"florida-coach-billy-napier-reacts-to-vote-of-confidence-from-scott-stricklin","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/florida-football\/florida-coach-billy-napier-reacts-to-vote-of-confidence-from-scott-stricklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida coach Billy Napier reacts to vote of confidence from Scott Stricklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida head coach Billy Napier met with reporters on Saturday afternoon after Florida&#8217;s disappointing loss to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Athletic director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/florida-football\/billy-napier-to-remain-florida-head-coach-florida-ad-scott-stricklin-issues-statement\/\">Scott Stricklin recently gave Napier a ringing endorsement,<\/a> indicating that he will be Florida&#8217;s head coach moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>During his press conference on Saturday, Napier spoke about what it meant to get that vote of confidence from Stricklin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019m thankful for our players. I think you ultimately that&#8217;s a reflection of the players,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WyyRiufShoM?si=tNuiiVoVe_VkrFZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Napier said<\/a> in the postgame press conference after the 49-17 loss to Texas. &#8220;We would not have made some of the progress we made over the last 4, 5, 6 weeks without a great group of players relative to what I\u2019ve talked before, the character there at the core of that group, their leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, the staff has done a good job. And again, I do think when you look at the roster as a whole, we have a ton of young talent that I think will continue to develop. They\u2019re learning, they\u2019re going through this experience, and I think that will prove beneficial in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, Florida is now 4-5 on the season. The Gators have won back-to-back games since their big win over Kentucky back on Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Florida will look to get back on track as the Gators face the No. 14-ranked LSU Tigers at 3:3o p.m. ET in The Swamp this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida coach Billy Napier reacted to Scott Stricklin&#8217;s vote of confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364585,"featured_media":434736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[3137,3970],"class_list":["post-434798","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-billy-napier","tag-florida-gators","article_types-news","teams-florida-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/434798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}