BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Brian Kelly calls any talk of firing Florida counterpart Billy Napier “crazy.”
And yet, Kelly's No. 3 Tigers (2-0) could very well contribute to Napier's demise when they host the Gators (1-1) in both teams' SEC opener on Saturday night.
"(Napier is) a really good football coach. He knows his team. He knows what their strengths and weaknesses are,” said Kelly, whose Tigers lost at Florida last season. “He’s building a culture that is fit to his eye in terms of what he wants to do. He’s doing it his way.”
The negative speculation swirling around Napier — who arrived at Florida after winning a Sun Belt Conference title at Louisiana-Lafayette — stems from the Gators’ loss to visiting South Florida last weekend.
Kelly, however, sees that result — which