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"To me the article still caters to Urban by not calling him out directly for 2010..." |
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Message Replied To ========== Inside the rise and fall of Urb Meyer's Florida Gators Some things many of us have long suspected.. "He couldn't take the heat -- that's all that was. He wanted to hand the job off to [offensive coordinator] Steve Addazio and get out of there." "[Meyer] allowed players to do what they wanted, which is why the program is still getting fixed. He allowed players to run amok." -- Offensive lineman David Young, on Urban Meyer "Meyer was known to ask stars how their mothers were doing, but lesser players had trouble simply drawing eye contact from the head coach. Some think it was all part of Meyer's motivational tactics. Meyer has a psychology degree from Cincinnati, and "we all knew he used that in coaching," A.J. Jones said. Said Tartt about the favoritism, "It pissed off a lot of people." "There were occasions when players practiced during the week, only to miss a game while wearing a protective boot on the sideline. It was suspected in the locker room that those players had failed a drug test. A.J. Jones estimates a "good amount" of Gators failed school-administered drug tests or feared they would. Another player says at least a dozen key players were in that category, despite creative efforts to beat those tests. In 2012, Sporting News reported that Meyer publicly stated players were hurt when they were actually sitting out a game due to university drug-testing protocol." http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/13660781/urban-meyer-tim-tebow-aaron-hernandez-percy-harvin-rise-fall-florida-gators ============================== So players were rock stars, felt entitled, had to get private areas of local restaurants, got into some fights - gee, clearly that only happens at Florida- NOT!
I get the culture problem that the article gets into. But where are the details on how Urban behaved in 2010, how were practices different then, how was his interaction different with the players? The article only talks about Meyers "lethargic approach to the offseason" and how Addazio became the Mayor. Was Meyer still engaged with the team or what? It pussy foots around that issue IMO, probably because don't want to cut off access to Meyer now at Ohio State and spoil the Meyer is golden narrative. So the article tone has to be kept that Meyer just had a little personal problem at Florida but the players were the big problem, sort of like other narrative Cam Newton <might> have had some minor issue at Florida but is now wonderful. |
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