Billy Napier OUT! What It Means for Coaches & Recruiting Across CFB | Cover 3 Recruiting Show
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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On this episode of the Cover 3 Recruiting Show, Bud Elliott brings on 247Sports Director of Scouting Andrew Ivins to talk about Billy Napier, and what's next in recruiting, what's next in the coaching carousel and what head coaches are on the hot seat and some elite QB names you should know.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on y'all, but Elliot here. That's Andrew Ivans, and we are the cover three |
| 0:04.2 | recruiting hour as we get to you up at National Saturday. Coming up in December, the transfer |
| 0:08.3 | portal in January, and we try to just kind of dive into everything each week from the lens |
| 0:14.1 | of personnel. Ives, what's going on, man? Not much, bud. Another crazy weekend of college football. |
| 0:22.6 | Man, I feel like every game I watch, especially in the SEC, it's like one score game. |
| 0:28.6 | And certainly not the first one to put the take out there, but parody is here across the sport, right? |
| 0:34.6 | I think every week, you know, it feels more and more like the NFL, |
| 0:39.4 | and we've been saying this for a while. So I'm glad it's all coming to fruition on the TV screens |
| 0:44.8 | Saturdays. Yeah, man, absolutely. I think this is a fascinating time for this sport. I mean, we have, |
| 0:51.6 | you know, with the 12-team playoff, they're legitimately, like, 25 or 26 fan bases who are still, like, truly and earnestly believing that they're going to make the college ball playoff or that they have a real, you know, a real shot to make it. And that just wasn't the case when we had the 14th playoff. I mean, back then there was probably like seven or eight, you know, and like, it's okay. |
| 1:13.3 | It's going to be Ohio State from the Big Ten and maybe Indiana, but probably not. |
| 1:18.2 | You know, and now it's like just so many more teams have a reason to follow their team, |
| 1:22.7 | really late into the season. |
| 1:24.5 | But I think I saw a graphic somewhere on social media like Monday, and it was |
| 1:29.0 | eliminated teams from the playoff, teams still alive, and teams in contention. |
| 1:33.4 | And like Mississippi State was, I think, in the still alive category. |
| 1:36.8 | And I'm like, wait, what? |
| 1:38.6 | But I guess the numbers say they're still very much in the hunt. |
| 1:42.1 | No shots at Jeff Levy and the bulldogs there. |
| 1:45.8 | Absolutely. Exactly. I mean, like just the more people have more reason to care. |
| 1:50.3 | And a couple of teams out there now are giving their fans a reason to pay attention now because |
| 1:54.8 | they're going to have a coaching change. One of those, of course, is the Florida Gators. |
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