Let’s get this out of the way: Florida is not going to fire Billy Napier this year, despite some saber rattling from national columnists you might find out there from the weekend.
It’s cost prohibitive. Napier alone would be owed just shy of $32 million in buyout money, half of which would be owed within 30 days of firing. The whole thing would be more than $10 million above the current record buyout, the $21.7 million Auburn paid to get rid of Gus Malzahn. The UAA appears to be on the hook for all of it too, as reporting from the time of hire says Napier doesn’t have an offset clause where the buyout would be reduced by the amount of money that a subsequent job would pay him.