{"id":17619,"date":"2021-11-28T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2021-11-28T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T19:53:13","slug":"louisianas-billy-napier-set-to-become-the-florida-gators-next-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/11\/28\/louisianas-billy-napier-set-to-become-the-florida-gators-next-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana’s Billy Napier set to become the Florida Gators’ next Head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Florida<\/a> is set to hire Louisiana coach Billy Napier as the Gators’ new head football coach, according to mulitple reports Sunday. An announcement is expected in the next 24 hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Billy Napier <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Florida athletics director Scott Stricklin will meet with the team Monday at 8 a.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scott Stricklin <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Napier, 42, has compiled a 39-12 record in four years at Louisiana\u2013Lafayette, including three consecutive 10-win seasons, fourth-straight Sun Belt West Division titles and the Sun Belt Conference Championship in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Napier will be the second football hire for Stricklin, who fired former coach Dan Mullen last Sunday. The school will pay Mullen’s $12 million buyout. Napier would be Florida’s fourth head coach in eight seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dan Mullen <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida is set to hire Louisiana coach Billy Napier as the Gators’ new head football coach, according to mulitple reports Sunday. An announcement is expected in the next 24 hours.  Florida athletics director Scott… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[1829],"class_list":["post-17619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-louisianas-billy-napier-set-to-become-the-florida-gators-next-head-coach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}