“On behalf of Gator Nation, I want to sincerely thank Billy and his family for their tireless commitment to the Florida Gators. Billy built a tremendous culture of accountability and growth among the young men he led each day. His organized and detailed approach had a meaningful impact across all levels of our program.<\/p>\n
“As Coach Napier has often said, this is a results-driven business, and while his influence was positive, it ultimately did not translate into the level of success we expect on the field.”<\/p>\n
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GAINESVILLE, FL – OCTOBER 20: The Florida Gators play the South Carolina Gamecocks at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on October 20, 2012 in Gainesville, Florida. Florida defeated South Carolina 44-11. (Photo by Chris Trotman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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We named three possible candidates<\/a> for the job earlier on Sunday. Kiffin, the Ole Miss head coach, is atop the Gators’ list.<\/p>\n One announcer claims Kiffin has already made a decision<\/p>\n Longtime college football announcer Tim Brando is hearing the Lane Kiffin-to-Florida hype. However, he claims that Kiffin isn’t going anywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cAll Florida fans want is a spiritual successor to Steve Spurrier. They want a coach who wears a visor, scores points and talks (expletive),\u201d Andy Staples wrote.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Brando responded: “Sums up all my earlier points, and guess what? The @Lane_Kiffin \ud83d\ude82 ain\u2019t coming. Not happening.”<\/p>\n Kiffin, who has been at Ole Miss since 2020, has built the Rebels into an SEC contender and College Football Playoff hopeful.<\/p>\n But will he leave Ole Miss?<\/p>\n One college football announcer is saying no way.<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by The Spun<\/a> on Oct 19, 2025, where it first appeared in the College Football<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Florida is in need of a new football coach and Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3009,10597,28,2530,30,29,13106,2496,3111,10713,9918,6759,13238,2512],"class_list":["post-15313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-billy-napier","tag-coach-napier","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-football-coach","tag-gainesville","tag-gators","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-ole-miss","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-tim-brando","tag-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}