When coaches equipped with expensive rosters are paid sizable amounts to win across college football, rash of firings when on-field failures arise are expected in a way, according to former Alabama coach Nick Saban. Those who help pay those salaries — fans, boosters, donors and alumni — from outside the football program demand immediate results and ROI or the funds stop coming.

Billy Napier, who coached under Saban as the Crimson Tide's wide receivers coach for four seasons, became the latest Power Four coaching victim over the weekend when Florida fired him. Napier was this season's sixth firing in the Power Four and ninth overall.

"You know, I'm not [surprised] because everybody's raising money to pay players," Saban said Tuesday . "So, the people that are giving the money think

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