No one is shocked.
If UF wins? It’s all Urban. If they lose? His players are slackers. If they do well in the classroom and preach to prison mates? Urban’s a leader, a role model. If they steal dead peoples’ credit cards? It’s the NCAA’s fault.
This is complete and utter, and major, BS. Urban clearly has lost control of his players. He recruits kids with suspect integrity, little/no academic background to stand on, and he doesn’t do anything to ‘mold men’. Then he blames the NCAA for his kids going out of control?Â
We’ve documented pretty well the absurd number of arrests and problems in that program.  That’s old news. But now it’s the NCAA’s fault? It’s not Urban’s fault? Or UF’s? Or some combination of those two and the kids themselves? Nope:
”The NCAA is pulling us off the recruiting process,” he said. “I’m not allowed to go out [to visit players] anymore. I’m not allowed to text message. I’m trying to find out as best I can. You just keep re-evaluating.
“If you just look around and see some of the things that are going on, it’s amazing. It’s concerning. It’s alarming. So we take a great deal of time and effort in trying to educate guys, work with them and recruit character. Are we perfect? Absolutely not.”
Now this doesn’t make ANY sense whatsoever. I don’t like the new limiting rules either. I think they reward lazy coaches (Ty) and hurt hard-working coaches (Urban, Charlie, Pete). But c’mon now, Urban, this is beyond shady.   The key fact Urb leaves out is that those rules JUST took effect this past year. The dude that just stole and used his deceased friend’s credit card was a Sophomore, which means Urban recruited him 2 freaking years ago! So Urb is saying that 2 new rules (text ban and reduced recruiting time allowed on the road), implemented in the past year is why he had over 14 arrests in the past year and change? Ummm, yeah, we’re not buying it Urb.
And Urb happily glosses over all of those other problems over the past year (AK-47’s, burglary, robbery, fraud…eh, nothin’ for Urb) and points to what he says is the ‘success’ of ALL 104 other guys:
”It’s a shame that one person had to steal away from what the other 104 guys are doing,” Meyer said. “We had the highest GPA in University of Florida football history. We had 58 [players] that had over a 3.0.”
Urb, I’m glad some guys are doing well. I’m glad 58 dudes (barely half) have a 3.0. But you HAVE to count the dudes that got arrested and/or kicked off the team in this type of stuff. Seriously, man! Clean up your program, or at least accept some responsibility for it.
And no, Tim Tebow being a preacher does not make up for everyone else.
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David Sisler
To post this kind of garbage about Urban Meyer when ‘her loyal sons’ has such an embarassment as a head coach is pathetic.
domer.mq
Man, every time we poke fun at Florida, fans like David show up. If we sold advertising space on the site, I’d change the name to http://www.watchfloridafansfreakoutanddefendthegatorspoorly.com
The Biscuit
Hey Dave,
Show me an example of how ND’s coach is blaming anybody else for anything ever. Go do it. Do it!
Not to mention, in the history of ND’s program, not a SINGLE ND PLAYER has been busted for pulling out a FREAKING AK-47 DURING A FIGHT! Urban’s players have been busted for it.
Which is pathetic?