Mike Greenberg says Billy Napier’s time in Florida is already over.
And it’s because – among other things – Napier wasn’t aware that homes in the central part of his state don’t have basements.
You read it right.
Napier recently made this statement: “If we can focus on those things and not necessarily what some guy in his basement is saying in rural Central Florida on social media, then we got a chance to get better.”
Apparently, and I didn’t know this either, but homes in Florida don’t have basements?
Apparently?
At least that’s what Greenberg claimed on his radio show, and a story on awfulannouncing.com covered earlier this week, Greenberg calling Napier out over the disconnect between the coach and his fan base.
The story, by AA’s Sam Neumann (Mike Greenberg says Billy Napier committed coaching ‘cardinal sin’ (awfulannouncing.com)), quotes Greenberg from his show on Wednesday. “You take shots at your own fans? Let’s cover the obvious first; he doesn’t even know the territory that he represents,” Greenberg said. “You cannot have a basement in Florida. That’s the first part of this, OK? The old, ‘Sitting in his mother’s basement,’ which is the most tired of cliches, generalizations, etc., in sports or beyond, doesn’t apply in Florida. There’s too much water; it’s a swamp. Your stadium is literally called ‘The Swamp,’ and you cannot put basements underneath them. So, this does not apply either literally or figuratively.”
And then there’s this little ditty: “For you, this is a job — and I get it — it’s important. And I get criticism stinks, but it comes with the territory. And if you’re gonna fire back on your own fans, you have lost; it is over. Billy Napier is already out of Florida. It is just a question of when they decide to make it official. You do not win your fans back after this. No coach ever goes after the fans and gets it back again. To me, this is the cardinal sin.”
So, let’s get this straight: Napier has lost one game as coach of the Florida Gators this year. And because of that, and he doesn’t know that homes in Florida don’t have basements, he’s out.
OK.
Well, at least we know who the best of all time is. That’s what Greenberg is the king of, you know: “____________ is the best of all time.”
You fill in the blank. Greenberg is the king of hyperbole. So-in-so is the greatest of all time. The flavor of the month. And it’s usually the most recent.
According to Greenberg: Serena Williams is the greatest tennis player of all time.
Walter Payton is also the greatest of all time.
Tom Brady is the greatest of all time.
Even though he also said Wayne Gretzky was the greatest of all time.
You get the idea?
