Urban Myer stepping down at Uf...

[Godfather]

I hear rumors he is headed to Denver to be QB coach.

[Townhallsavoy]

Not surprised. 

Something really seemed off with Meyer this year.  Almost like every time a play happened, he questioned whether or not his heart was about to stop.

For the next week or two, we will hear:

"Gus Malzahn is, sources say, VERY interested in the Florida job, and Florida is interested because his offense is very similar to Urban Meyer," Finebaum.

"Well, it looks like it's official.  Houston Nutt, Tommy Tuberville, and Nick Saban have all accepted the head coaching job at Florida.  I just got a text from a very reliable source," some news station in Tennessee.

"I'm not interested in leaving Oklahoma.  I get paid a lot, and I win every year.  Seriously.  I love my job," Bob Stoops.  And he's serious.

"RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT," Gus Malzahn after being asked if he's interested in the Florida job.

"Sources say that Chizik hears Mama calling him home," Shane from Centerpoint.

"Well, I'm Cam not really Newton Cam interested should have paid the money Cam Newton Cam Cam Cammy Cam juice interested Cam juice on my chin interested in the Florida Cam Newton job with Cam Newton," Dan Mullen.

[djsimp]

I hear rumors he is headed to Denver to be QB coach.

He really really loves him some Tim Tebow.

[Snaggletiger]

He really really loves him some Tim Tebow.

That's what was wrong with his heart last year. Timmy T broke it and it's never mended.

[djsimp]

That's what was wrong with his heart last year. Timmy T broke it and it's never mended.

So, its safe to say that the Brantley band-aid didn't work so well?

[dallaswareagle]

Some asshole...

CUM?  Something stinks.

[Godfather]

Not surprised. 

Something really seemed off with Meyer this year.  Almost like every time a play happened, he questioned whether or not his heart was about to stop.

For the next week or two, we will hear:

"Gus Malzahn is, sources say, VERY interested in the Florida job, and Florida is interested because his offense is very similar to Urban Meyer," Finebaum.

"Well, it looks like it's official.  Houston Nutt, Tommy Tuberville, and Nick Saban have all accepted the head coaching job at Florida.  I just got a text from a very reliable source," some news station in Tennessee.

"I'm not interested in leaving Oklahoma.  I get paid a lot, and I win every year.  Seriously.  I love my job," Bob Stoops.  And he's serious.

"RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT RUN IT," Gus Malzahn after being asked if he's interested in the Florida job.

"Sources say that Chizik hears Mama calling him home," Shane from Centerpoint.

"Well, I'm Cam not really Newton Cam interested should have paid the money Cam Newton Cam Cam Cammy Cam juice interested Cam juice on my chin interested in the Florida Cam Newton job with Cam Newton," Dan Mullen.

Ordinarily I would agree, except I think this is Mullen's to lose.

[Tiger Wench]

My actual flame battle with a MSU fan over on MichiganZone (they did a "Know Your Opponent" piece on MSU since they are playing them in the bowl game...).  I am a psychic genius if Mullen does what everyone in the world thinks he will...

J said...

While it totally works for Bruce Dickinson, the cowbell is the most God-awful nightmare in all of the SEC. The MSU "fanbase" (with even more "sidewalk" alums than bammer has, which is saying a LOT) are total mouthbreathers. Y'all will leave that game grateful for the tOSUers. I highly recommend earplugs - they are only supposed to be able to ring those stupid bells at certain times or risk a fine, but since none of them can read the rules anyway, they tend to ring them whenever the hell they want to... and the SEC has done NOTHING to stop them.

Not to mention that their new head coach still has sand in his vajayjay over Cam Newton signing with Auburn over MSU. I think he took the MSU job - which is a coaching death sentence - only because he thought he was going in there with the best player in CFB at his side. He knew what Cam could do - he coached him at FL - and he saw an opportunity to use Cam to make himself look great at an otherwise shittastic school, leading to a bigger opportunity than he would ever have with the bottom tier talent MSU normally gets. He genuinely thought Cam would choose MSU over Auburn, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Fat fucking chance. Have y'all SEEN Starkvegas? Holy shit. I totally agree with the alleged statement made by Cecil Newton, that it would take more than a scholarship to get his son to MSU. I would feel the same way. It would take an offensive line strong enough to keep my gifted son from getting his ass kicked on every other play. It would take a university with whom my gifted son could be proud to have his name associated. It would take the genuine possibility that my gifted son would be surrounded by players decent enough to actually make a run for the SEC West and be a national contender.

MSU has never and will never have or provide ANY of those items. And the list of SEC schools that will be allowed to recruit my son one day is down to 9...

So even tho I am supposed to pull for the conference, MSU can kiss my sweet ass.

Go Blue.

War Damn Eagle.

December 06, 2010 3:17 PM

srudoff said...

And yet Auburn only beat MSU because of a TON of dropped passes (and a dropped INT) by MSU..

December 06, 2010 4:02 PM

J said...

At the end of the day, the W went into Auburn's column, not MSU's. And that is really all that matters. We basically gifted them with points off a few turnovers at the beginning of the game - our first road game and first conference game of the season, BTW - so to say they were on the verge of beating us in their own right is a stretch. So "coulda woulda shoulda" is not worth discussing.

MSU is not going to Glendale, Auburn is. And I would even be willing to bet that MSU will NEVER play for a crystal egg. They are second tier at best. Granted, second tier SEC is generally better than the top tier of most other conferences, but any success MSU has will be more out of sheer luck than talent level and skill. The fact that they can recruit at all is amazing to me. I repeat - have you SEEN Starkvegas? /shudder/ /gack/

December 07, 2010 11:45 AM

benzadawgfan said...

Attaboy J! Show that Auburn class! I know you're upset that the whistle was blown over Mr Newton's underhanded ways, and while he has been found eligible to play, there is an investigation ongoing. Btw you may recall Cam himself preferred Starkville to Auburn, and chose Auburn because daddy said so. Enjoy basking in the glory of your undefeated season & possible national championship for a few months, because that is about how long you'll have it.

You barners had better hope Cam decides to stick around another year, because without him this year, you would be sitting at hope working on your fire gene chizick site.

Let's see in 5 years where Mullen is, and where Chizick is. Chizick will be making a comeback at a directional school in Montana. Mullen, making millions at a BCS school.

Btw, our lack of talent is displayed by our class being ranked right where Auburn's was year before last. Another top 5 class may be rough to come by with the NCAA sniffing around.

December 07, 2010 11:50 AM

J said...

MSU is a stepping stone for Mullen - nothing more. Since his Cam plan for SEC West domination didn't quite work out, it will take him a bit longer to pull you guys out of your "last in the West" comfort zone, but he will do it - maybe all the way to 3rd best. (Dude, you are in a conference with Auburn, Alabama and LSU - 3rd would be a pipe dream, but even a blind pig finds an acorn every now and again...)

And as soon as he does that, then some other decent school will be in a coaching crisis and will grab him up, thinking that if he can effect a turnaround at your second tier program with limited resources, he can work miracles at a school people actually want to attend.

So you keep holding on to your Cowbell wishes and Boones Farm dreams, puppy dawg... but the worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. Good luck with that.

Championship!!

[AUChizad]

My actual flame battle with a MSU fan over on MichiganZone (they did a "Know Your Opponent" piece on MSU since they are playing them in the bowl game...).  I am a psychic genius if Mullen does what everyone in the world thinks he will...

Championship!!

Attaboy, J! 

[Jumbo]

Mullen has to be the #1 candidate. Fuck Urban

[Tiger Wench]

Attaboy, J! 

Yeah, wanted to tell that dawg that he got smacked down by a girl, but thought I would leave him with a shred of dignity...

[Snaggletiger]

A wise woman recently said, "Fuck Mullen too."

I thought it was sweet

[wesfau2]

I'm reading on other sites (nothing official) that Urbs is planning to stick around G'ville in some capacity.

Surely an established coach would object to that sort of continued presence of the prior staff.

This, if true, leads me to believe that Mullen is going to be a Gaytor again in 2010.  He would probably welcome the input.

[Tiger Wench]

A wise woman recently said, "Fuck Mullen too."

I thought it was sweet

If you thought his vajayjay was sandy when Cam dumped him, I bet Mullen is off the charts pissed now.  Had Meyer just stuck to his initial decision last year, Mullen would already be Da Man at UF by now.  Instead, Mullen moved to STARK-FUCKING-VEGAS!!!  He is probably rocking back and forth in the fetal position right now while sticking the handle of a cowbell into his eye socket.

[Ranger12]

As I think more about the weasel he is, it would not surprise me if he does show up in Denver. He misses his sugar daddy.

[chinook]

this thread has made it 3 fricking pages without "corch" being used.  wow. 

snaggle?

[Snaggletiger]

My day got off to a great start this morning when I turned on our local sports talk show to hear a caller telling the host emphatically that the whole reason he quit was because of the beatdown Bama gave him in Atlanta.  "He can't take losin'.  He don't know to handle it and when Bama punked them boys out in Atlanta, he ain't been the same since.  It all goes back to that right there."

 

[GH2001]

My day got off to a great start this morning when I turned on our local sports talk show to hear a caller telling the host emphatically that the whole reason he quit was because of the beatdown Bama gave him in Atlanta.  "He can't take losin'.  He don't know to handle it and when Bama punked them boys out in Atlanta, he ain't been the same since.  It all goes back to that right there."

 

Actually, the part about him not being the same since has some truth. But I see your point Mr. Snaggle.

[Tiger Wench]

Actually, the part about him not being the same since has some truth. But I see your point Mr. Snaggle.

After a very stressful day spent in mediation back in August, I had one of those esophageal spasms that Urban had after the bammer game.  In fact, had I not read about the symptoms in an article about him in SI, I would have literally thought I was having a heart attack.  Crushing chest pain, radiating down my left arm and up my neck, hard to breathe...   I told Carl that if it went on very long, he needed to get me to the ER because I was about to die.  It lasted about ten minutes, which I spent on the floor, hunched over, crying and praying it would stop.

My point is that Meyer actually went unconscious from the pain - so I am sure he really thought for a little while that the stupid SECCG gave him a heart attack.  Facing your mortality over a football game had to be a shocker, so yeah, he probably has been different since then.  So while bammer may have indirectly caused the spasm he had, they are, as usual, a bunch of egocentric fucktards. 

I think he is burned out and made the absolute right decision.

[Tiger Wench]

CBS writer agrees:

Meyer's arrogance can't topple forces of burnout ... for now
 By Mike Freeman
CBSSports.com National Columnist

The first time I met Urban Meyer it was only a matter of days after Florida hired him. We were practically alone in the corner of a press box atop the Gators' baseball field. Meyer was there to watch a game; I was there to watch Meyer.

I walked away from our 20-minute interview thinking: this is the cockiest coach I'd ever met. And I've covered names like Bill Parcells, who is the cockiest of the cocky. Meyer made Parcells seem like a shoeless friar trekking to a monastery in Spain. He was bold in his looks and words. He rarely smiled, was toned and fit -- beaming almost -- and when we shook hands his grip was strong.

Then, last season, only five years later, I saw Meyer on television. Meyer looked like he had aged 20 years. I'd seen Meyer many times since we'd first met but for some reason this one shot of him -- looking into the distance, a blank stare -- was a stunner. There were more wrinkles and he was slightly pudgy. He looked like an entirely different guy. At least to me.

Meyer's initial healthy arrogance de-evolved into a different brand of arrogance as the player arrests at Florida piled high and the losing became more commonplace. He was more mean-spirited. He physically threatened reporters. The crushing gravitational forces of coaching changed Meyer. He became a smaller, more petty man.

Meyer acted like a guy who wanted the soundtrack from Inception to play every time he entered a room.

This is what coaching does to some people. It consumes them. It ruins their bodies, destroys their innards and causes them to see enemies that aren't there. This is what happened to Urban Meyer.

He needed a break. The time for that is now.

Oh, I don't feel sorry for Meyer. There's enough money in Meyer's bank accounts to last many lifetimes.

It's also doubtful this is the last we've heard of Meyer. He'll be back. A few months on a beach, time in the gym, dinners with the family, and he'll be back. You can count on it. Guys like Meyer don't walk away. Ever.

Next year, after sipping on drinks with umbrellas, and after he tires of breaking down a defense on a big screen in a television studio, he'll return.

But I do understand why Meyer is leaving. He isn't bailing or running scared. This is classic coach burnout. I've seen it with almost every NFL and big-time college coach I've been around, from Jon Gruden to Dan Reeves to Joe Gibbs to Jimmy Johnson to Bill Belichick and a legion of others. It's why Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno defy the logic and are forces of nature.

When around the Gators I heard tales of how Meyer never took days off. Not one. Never. He was always doing something.

This isn't Meyer being a coward. It's Meyer again being arrogant, this time, arrogantly underestimating the violence -- that's the word, violence -- the coaching profession unleashes on its own.

When Meyer took a leave of absence last year he spoke of the need to re-evaluate his priorities of faith and family. I never believed that reason. He was burned out and needed a break. That was it. That was all.

And it has happened again.

He's gone, for now, another example of the profession once again consuming its own.