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Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football coach Billy Napier hired as Florida Gators' new coach
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Florida has hired Louisiana 's Billy Napier as the Gators' next football coach, the school announced Sunday.
"We are humbled and honored to accept this incredible opportunity to be the head football coach at the University of Florida," Napier said in a statement. "Our team, staff and entire organization will work daily to establish a program with integrity and class that we all can be proud of. More importantly, we will build a culture that is centered around making an impact on our players; as people, as students, and on the field.
"We embrace the expectations and are excited about the challenge ahead. We will assemble a special group of people and immediately get to work building a great program. A special thank you to President Dr. [Kent] Fuchs and Athletic Director Scott Stricklin. We look forward to getting to Gainesville and starting this journey!"
Napier plans to coach the Ragin' Cajuns in the Sun Belt championship game against Appalachian State on Saturday (3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN).
Napier, 42, has been at Louisiana the past four seasons and led the Ragin' Cajuns to 10 or more wins in each of the past three seasons. Before his arrival, Louisiana had never won 10 games in a season in program history.
He turned down multiple SEC head-coaching opportunities in recent years and again emerged as a target for several high-profile positions this season. LSU and Virginia Tech were also interested in Napier during this hiring cycle.
"I've followed and studied Billy Napier's career with interest, and he became the primary target immediately after this position came open," Stricklin said in a statement. "We felt confident he would be an excellent leader for the Gators, which is why he was the only candidate I met with about the job."
Napier, a former Furman quarterback, coached under Dabo Swinney at Clemson and Nick Saban at Alabama . He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arizona State for one season before landing the Louisiana job in 2018.
A tenacious recruiter, Napier's offenses at Louisiana have averaged 31.9 points or more per game all four of his seasons in Lafayette.
He replaces Dan Mullen, who was 34-15 in four seasons at Florida and took the Gators to the SEC championship game a year ago. But Mullen lost four straight games to Power 5 teams this season and was 3-9 against Power 5 foes dating back to the final three games of the 2020 season.
Florida defeated rival Florida State 24-21 in Saturday's regular-season finale to finish 6-6 and qualify for the postseason. The Gators' 2-6 SEC record was their worst in the league since 1986.
Napier becomes the fourth Florida head coach since 2014, Will Muschamp's final season in Gainesville. The Gators last won an SEC championship in 2008. Between 1991 and 2008, they won eight SEC titles, six of those by Steve Spurrier.
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Kim Mulkey speaks as LSU Athletics holds a public press confrence to introduce her as the new head womens basketball coach Monday, April 26, 2021.
UL coach Garry Brohead applauds the hiring of coach Kim Mulkey at LSU, which visits the Ragin' Cajuns on Thursday night at the Cajundome.
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About two decades ago, Garry Brodhead got the ambitious idea of reaching out to Kim Mulkey for a helping hand.
Mulkey had just left Louisiana Tech to coach Baylor’s women’s basketball team.
“Me and my wife are running this huge national tournament,” Brodhead said. “I think we had 150 teams come in (to the Cajundome ) for 10 days. It was going to create, like, $6-to-$8 million for the city of Lafayette.
“We needed a big-time speaker (for) the opening ceremony. … Me and my wife, as soon as we saw she took the job we looked at each other and we said, ‘Can we get Kim Mulkey?’ ”
Twenty-one years at Baylor and three NCAA championships later, Tickfaw native Mulkey is in her first season as LSU’s coach. Lafayette native Brodhead is in his 10th at UL.
The two face off for the first time as head coaches when LSU (1-1) visits UL (2-0) on Thursday (6 p.m.) at the Cajundome.
When they do, it won’t be as strangers.
“I made a call (back then), and I’m like, ‘Kim, we need a favor,’ ” said Brodhead, who specialized in the pole vault at UL. “And, man, she was just like, ‘I’m in. I’m coming to Louisiana. I want to come back. I want to tell them I’m at Baylor,’ and all that.
“So she flew in in a jet; I picked her up at the airport, and she spent probably six or seven days here recruiting after she spoke.”
Mulkey , who played point guard at Louisiana Tech and was an assistant there under legendary coach Leon Barmore, stayed put at Baylor until LSU lured her away with an eight-year, $23.75 million contract .
Brodhead, went from helping his late wife Andrea run the Acadiana Biddy Basketball program to coaching the Acadiana Stars AAU girls team, winning one girls state championship and nine district titles at Teurlings Catholic High, and spending five seasons as McNeese ’s associate women’s head coach before UL hired him in 2012.
During the 2011-12 season in which the Lady Bears went 40-0, Brodhead and McNeese were among Baylor’s many victims.
He and Mulkey frequently spent time together on the recruiting trail over the years.
“She’s one of the promoters for women’s sports, and I always respected that about her,” said Brodhead, whose Ragin’ Cajuns opened with a win over Texas A&M-Kingsville and won 73-69 at Rice behind Brandi Williams ’ 24 points Saturday. “She’s a competitor, not just for herself but the whole sport.”
It’s why Brodhead feels LSU made a home-run hire to replace the fired Nikki Fargas.
“You’ve got to give the (athletic director) at LSU (Scott Woodward) a lot of credit to do what he did, man,” Brodhead said. “I mean, he didn’t hold back. He went after the best he could get for his situation.
“You know, LSU gets bashed about a lot of things – but that’s one thing that I would not bash them for, is they are committed to women’s basketball. To me, if you’re gonna play it why not? So, it’s exciting to be able to get them to come in.”
The game is LSU’s only true non-conference road contest this season and just the seventh game in a series the Tigers lead 6-0.
All prior meetings but one, an LSU win in December 2018, have been held in Baton Rouge. This one was scheduled before LSU hired Mulkey. But, based on prior experience, Brodhead suspects Mulkey would approve.
“I’m all about not just growing the sport here at UL, but in Louisiana, in the South,” he said.
“She’s the type of person who wants to come here and help us to grow it also.”
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Angelle Terrell is a Cajun who grew up in Lafayette (the capital of Cajun Louisiana), but who moved to Baton Rouge when she got married. For those outside of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, where I live, has a French name, and it’s in the southern part of the state (where the Cajuns are), but it is not a Cajun city. Sometimes it feels like Shreveport South.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing — it’s the capital of a state, the northern half of which is Anglo Protestant — but it does give you an idea of why a Cajun woman from a city only one hour to the west of Baton Rouge can feel like a cultural alien here. It’s a noticeably different culture. When I was a kid growing up in West Feliciana Parish, I knew that if we got on the ferry and crossed the Mississippi to Pointe Coupee Parish, we were in another country. That’s where Cajun Louisiana starts. People there spoke English with Cajun accents. They weren’t hostile or anything, but we knew that they were different. And I’m sure they said the same thing about us, because it was true. We were English and they were French.
In early 2012, two months after Julie and I moved to Louisiana, my friend James Fox-Smith took me over to the Café des Amis, a restaurant in the Cajun town of Breaux Bridge, for their zydeco breakfast. I wrote about it here. Café des Amis has since closed, and the zydeco breakfast moved to another place , but I can tell you that such an event would never, ever happen in English Louisiana. At the zydeco breakfast, after the cafe full of people finishes eating, the staff pushes the tables back to make a dance floor, and a zydeco band, which plays a form of music particular to French-speaking black folks (it marries Cajun melodies with African rhythms), takes the stage. And everybody dances. Everybody! Young people, old people, black people, white people — everybody. Take a look at this clip from a show at zydeco breakfast in 2010:
After we’d had about as much beer and dancing as a couple of middle-aged guys could stand, we went back out onto the Main Street, and tried to navigate to Poche’s (PO-shays), a Cajun meat market outside of town, where we intended to fill our cooler with boudin, chaurice, andouille, and all kinds of good things. On the way there, we stopped at a particular shop to see if the owner, an acquaintance of James’s, was there. He wasn’t, but we got to talking to the saleswoman. Turns out she’s from a town near to St. Francisville. She moved to Acadiana 20 years ago, she said, “and I’m not moving back.”
I asked her why it was so easy to find places like Cafe des Amis and its zydeco breakfast here in Acadiana, but 70 miles to the east, you don’t see these places. “It’s totally different over here,” she said.
“These people, they live to eat, to drink, and to have fun. And to be Catholic,” she explained.
There is an entire worldview, an entire culture, in those two lines. The lady said that she’s not Cajun, but she’s been adopted by the Cajuns, and she doesn’t ever want to leave.
So, that’s the background to the Angelle Terrell piece . She writes about why she identifies so closely with Ed Orgeron, the head coach of the LSU Tigers. She recalls that when Orgeron was hired a few years back, there was a lot of skepticism that LSU had chosen a second-rate head coach. She recalls that people in her social circle in Baton Rouge made fun of Coach O’s gravelly voice, and his thick Cajun accent:
No one I encountered was happy about the decision; words like “embarrassing,” “humiliating,” “joke” were interwoven through the discussions. At times I felt the criticisms had less to do with his tenure at LSU or his overall resume. Conversations about Coach O were usually tinged with jabs at his accent, his overall demeanor, and his ability to represent LSU to the public.
And then she “met” the coach’s mother, Coco Orgeron:
After a neck-and-neck Auburn game in 2017, the local news interviewed a visibly glowing Mama Orgeron who goes by Coco. I was playing with my oldest son as his chunky 9-month-old body rolled on the floor and the t.v. played like white noise in the background. Suddenly my head sprung up to the sound of Coco’s voice – a quintessential Cajun accent choked with pride. It started low and slow, climbed to a peak with each roll of the tongue, and then glided back down again. The commentator asked her to give a message to LSU fans watching in French, which she did. Tears streamed down my face.
This is not that interview, but it does give you an idea of why people respond to Coco Orgeron. And she speaks a little French in it:
The memories come flooding back for Angelle Terrell, from her childhood in Cajun country. She began to feel that Coach O was somehow hers . A link to the childhood and the world she left behind in Lafayette. She writes:
Sometimes I hear Coach O’s gravelly voice on the radio and anticipate the French weather forecast will follow.
For the rest of the season in 2017 and 2018, I defended Coach O a little more ardently. I wouldn’t go into very much detail about why I liked him more than just his tenure on the sidelines, and I became more sensitive to his criticisms. The articulation that he sounded ignorant started to remind me of the stories my father would tell me about how Cajun French was strictly forbidden when my grandparents were growing up. Back then, speaking French was seen as a sign of ignorance and little economic means. Even in t.v. shows and movies today, the Cajun characters are usually toothless, half-witted swamp people.
At the same glittery party two years after his hire, and after the company was on the second or third chardonnay, LSU football came up. The same jabs were taken, some rightfully placed at the Florida loss. But the anticipated writhing at Orgeon’s press conferences came up. The conversation dominoed as it always did – O talking too fast, O being hard to understand, O sounding unintelligent, O not being suited to be head coach.
On this one night, I had had enough.
“I like the way he talks,” I asserted.
After a chortle, someone replied, “Really? He sounds so stupid.”
“He sounds like my grandfather. My grandfather wasn’t stupid,” I said with a smile.
BOOM! Read the whole thing. I love it so much. Almost as much as I love Coach O and his mama. If ever there was a man born to be head coach of the LSU Fighting Tigers, it’s Ed Orgeron. Again, you have to remember, when he took over, even people here in his home state made fun of him. And now, he could be acclaimed governor for life by divine right, and there wouldn’t be any dissent, except from some Tulane fans in uptown New Orleans, but you know how they are.
(Thanks to reader DW for sending that in.)
Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative . A veteran of three decades of magazine and newspaper journalism, he has also written three New York Times bestsellers— Live Not By Lies , The Benedict Option , and The Little Way of Ruthie Leming — as well as Crunchy Cons and How Dante Can Save Your Life. Dreher lives in Baton Rouge, La.
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What Louisiana football is looking for in next coach after Billy Napier heads to Florida
What Louisiana football is looking for in next coach after Billy Napier heads to Florida
Tim Buckley
| Lafayette Daily Advertiser
The search for the next Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns football coach is on.
Athletic director Bryan Maggard is looking to replace Billy Napier , who was hired by Florida on Sunday to replace the fired Dan Mullen.
Napier was hired after Maggard fired Mark Hudspeth at the end of the 2017 season. Napier was 39-12 in four seasons at UL.
Maggard suggested the next coach needs to have many of the same traits as Napier, who withdrew from consideration at TCU earlier this month and also was a cand
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