Assessing Billy Napier’s rebuild at the halfway point of his second season is in a lot of ways an assessment of what problems he’s solved and which are still left to go. It’s no secret that he inherited a program full of issues, and it’s impossible to solve them all at once.
Last year after the Texas A&M game, I slapped a “fireman” label on Napier because of how he’d been methodically putting out fires ever since his arrival. For one more week, the problems that looked fixed then appeared to stay fixed given the blowout win over South Carolina that was to come.