Urban Meyer takes the Ohio State job; do Gators feel jobbed?

First! MARK! one for Clemson please!! we need a win

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Hi is disingenuous at the least.

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One thing is for sure, Meyer will have more success at Ohio State than Muschamp will have at Florida.

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He is dead to me. I hope he loses every game he coaches as a Buckeye. If things don’t go his way there, he will quit on them too. Character is character, and he has none.

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Meyer left Muschamp with 60 scholarship players…. Muschamp looked miserable Saturday night and I know that look well because I was with him the night Chris Doering lit him up for 200 yards receiving in the GA/Fl game. I could see Muchamp leaving if the right job opens up…I don’t think he likes UF at all. I hear Driskell is transferring as well.

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The man is a winner, but he’s unreliable. Starting, quitting, starting again, quitting again. My guess is he stays at OSU maybe five years, and then retires to “spend more time with his family.”

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Dang, Gator stomp….tell us how you really feel.

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Can’t decide between Urban Liar or Urban Blight.

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So Urban Meyer leaves Florida because of health issues and to spend more time with his family ? Then immediately gets a job at ESPN. Now decides to become head coach at Ohio State ? What a liar. He also lied when asked about potentially being the Ohio State coach. “I haven’t had any contact with Ohio State.” What a liar !

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What the hail position is Kirk herbstreit gonna coach?

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Didn’t he cite health concerns as a reason for retiring? I thought he had a heart attack or something. Maybe he was sick with a case of Pete Carrollitis and he got out before the symptoms started.

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Ohhhhh nice jab Muschamp!

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SUCK IT FLORIDA

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My beef with Meyer is not that he left Florida. It’s WHY he left. How is his “health” going to be any better at Ohio State? It’s the same job, the same stresses. It’s his dream job and it was open. I get him moving, but he’s one step above Petrino in his Honesty and Integrity, not that those two mores are important to anyone in any kind of power in this country.

Be the Ohio State coach, but keep your freaking morality garbage to yourself Urban. You’re full of crap in that arena and STOP telling me about your family and watching volleyball.

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Thanks Mark for the update.

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Did Urbane Meyer petrino the Gators?

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Who wants to coach in the State of Florida? The state is loaded with high school “athletes”, and you have to take them to keep your job or the fan bases will run you out of town. The problem is 90% of them are trouble kids who do nothng but cause problems off the field. Sorta like the situation is becoming in the State of Georgia.

Coach somewhere else and go into Florida and cherry pick the good apples.

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Poor Sharrif Floyd…. God told Urban he had a plan for him at uf with the gators vs OSU… so being the god fearing young man he is he’s now stuck in what is apparently a swift and oh so sweet fall to mediocrity for the man child led gators. And if I am a recruit… hide the meatloaf if Charlie Weiss is knocking at the door…

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If people do not think that OSU and the other teams in their conference are not trying to recruit the same players that the SEC teams are, then they need to take a bite of the reality apple.

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Urb saw the handwriting on the wall is the reason he left Fla.

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Florida and Ohio State recruit the same types of players Ohio State just tends to be more national because the state of Ohio doesn’t produce as many D1 level players as Florida. Urban will get plenty of Floridians, Georgians and Californians.

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And does he have to return any gifts he got at his retirement party?

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He petrinoed the Gators.

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AJ Smith is one of the best GM’s in the National Football League too.

Being great at ones job does not mean one is great to work with.

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Glad UGA wasn’t the Guinea Pig for his coaching disaster.
Muschump at Jortsamulletville forever.
Weiss isn’t good for anything other that hovering over the field, providing aerial footage.

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6-6 will look good to gator fans next year.. Weis is a obese loser

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I still don’t get that the talent is gone at UF. They had all those great recruiting classes. Did most of those kids never qulaify academically or something?

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Ohio State. If you beat Michigan and maybe one or two other conference teams that are having a decent year, you’re in the National Championship discussion. NOTHING like the grind the of the SEC. He’ll have half the “stress” of the UF job. . . dream job for him, horrible for anyone not an OSU fan. And that’s not because he’s going to turn Ohio St. into the best team in the nation, but it sure as heck is going to seem that way with all of the airplay they’re going to get from ESPN.

. . .just became a minor Michigan fan myself.

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Meyer now joins Saban as the biggest liars in college football.

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Big Ten is easier than the SEC.. and Ohio is home to Meyer.. good move… Fla. football is a sinking ship.. Go Dawgs.. beat LSU !!

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All thanks to medical science and the healing hand of the Lord ! The bedridden defiled body of Urban Meyer has been resurrected and healed enough to go coach and earn a paltry $50 million bigons !

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Meyer = Petrino. At least Meyer was already gone. Petrino sneaked in the middle of the night and stuck a note on the lockers of the Falcons. F Petrino………..F Meyer too! Big Character issues for both!

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Gator fans: You have Charlie Weis! What could you possibly be worried about?

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Mr. Meyer said he had health problems. If so, why is he taking a new job? any jury of 12 (all Florida fans are to be struck from the panel) will unanimously agree Mr. Meyer is not switching jobs for health reasons (unless the stress of losing in the SEC has a dtrimental affect on his psyche).
The beginning of the end for Mr. Meyer at Florida was the man handling Alabama gave him and his team a year or so ago. In contrast, Alabama did the same to Georgia and Richt has stuck it out.
Where I come from you call that (what Mr. Richt is doing) character in the face of adversity. What you call Mr. Meyer is not so good. What is he going to say when he greets Alabama or LSU or Georgia in a playoff game a year or two from now???

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Florida fans are so hypocritical. AND, they are dillussional. They somehow believe: 1) college football started in 1990; 2) UF has no skeletons in their closet, but everyone else does; 3) Emotional connections to UF are iron-clad blood oathes, but commitments to other schools can be broken upon simple, flippant desire; and 4) Other schools/college towns could not possibly have the intangible draw that UF/Gainesville does.

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Urban Meyer is gone. Gone to Ohio State to restart his college coaching career. Good for him. I sincerely hope that whatever issues led to his resignation, do-over and leave of absence in 2009-10 and his resignation for good after the 2010 season are resolved.

Urban Meyer is an excellent coach, plays by the NCAA rules, sincerely cares about his athletes, and wins big games. He proved that he could win championships against the best of the SEC, and given time and the absence of health of personal issues, I am certain he will do it again in the Big 10+2, especially if he can recruit similar caliber athletes to those he recruited in Gainesville. Contrary to some of the jealous shots thrown by fans of former SEC rivals and the sour grapes expressed by a minority of Gators fans, Urban Meyer is the complete package as a coach. The Real Deal. And, yes, I am disappointed that he no longer coaches in Gainesville.

As for the present state of the Gators, clearly they have issues with their current talent at certain key positions, most notably on the offensive line, their lack of a power running back or two, and the absence of reliable deep-threat receivers. Quarterback John Brantley has been unfairly branded as the convenient scapegoat for every problem on the Gators’ offense. Keep in mind that the Gators lost three O-linemen who are 2011 NFL starters, a first-string NFL tight end and several wide receivers who are on 2011 NFL rosters, and a Heisman quarterback who runs like an NFL fullback. Meyer did not leave a bare cupboard, but he did leave holes. After the offensive skill positions, the biggest problem is the lack of depth: the Gators are playing with far fewer than their full NCAA limit of 85 scholarship players. The Gators have plenty of talent on defense, as shown by the fact that only two SEC teams (Alabama and LSU) scored more than 24 points against them. What they need are O-linemen who can block, a couple of deep-threat receivers who can catch, and a power tailback.

If Will Muschamp continues to recruit as he has thus far, the Gators should show marked improvement next year and contend for the conference championship in 2013. Everything else is “monkey dust.”

Good luck, Urban Meyer, and thanks for six great seasons (and two BCS championships). I hope you find personal fulfillment and inner happiness in Columbus.

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TEBOW made Urban Meyer a GREAT coach, and when Tebow left, all of a sudden, Urban left. AND Muschamp was not a good hire for UF.

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If im correct wasnt Urbans first championship at FLA with Chris Leak at QB & other players that Ron Zook recruited before Urban? Wasnt Tebow a Zook Recruit also? And when Fla won with Urban the second time wasnt it still with players that Zook Recruited? Now they are having to deal with players that Urban recruited? And how much did it hurt recruiting when he announced hi one Day retirement last year how many kids do you think changed their mind on signing with the gators? Besides Ohio State will be fine with all the support & cheering they get from ole Kirk herbstriet & ESPN

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“TEBOW made Urban Meyer a GREAT coach . . . .”

True. And so did Percy Harvin at wide receiver and tailback, the Pouncey brothers and Maurice Hurt on the offensive line, Brandon Spikes, Major Wright, Joe Haden and Carlos Dunlap on defense, punter Chas Henry . . . . Okay, that’s enough. I think I’ve made my point.

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Q: f im correct wasnt Urbans first championship at FLA with Chris Leak at QB & other players that Ron Zook recruited before Urban?

A: Yes.

Q: Wasn’t Tebow a Zook recruit also?

A: No.

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Muschamp is Floridas worst hire as is Dooley with Tennesee and Al Groh for Tech. PJ ought to see the writing on the wall—Groh is hurting him and we will never beat Ga. Our players and coaches are so intimadated by Ga. Ga. knows they are always going to win. Why didnt PJ call the same plays that he did against Kansas and UNC?

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I predicted that Ohio State would be higher ranked than the dogs at year end. I was wrong.

I predicted months ago that Ohio State would not offer the job to Urban and if they did, Urban would not accept. I was wrong.

I enjoyed the season acutally. They are a young team that will prove to be a top contender. Fickell and the Seniors did a great job holding the team and the Buckeye spirit together. I commend them andremain proud to be a Buckeye.

I predict LSU will put a god old fashion whuppin’ on the dogs. I think LSU could beat the bottom third of the NFL on any given day.

I’m not sold on Meyer personally. He’s too much of an ego guy IMO. As we’ve been reminded again, no one player or coach is bigget than THE Ohio State University.

I have enjoyed his film work sessions on Game Day.

FLA vs Meyer lead Buckeyes in the Gator Bowl? Beats the hell out of the Liberty Bowl, eh dogs?

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Can you imagine Weiss on your sidelines each week? Horrible visual.

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Muschamp will not recruit the state of Fla. as well as Meyer……..Other sec teams will make Fla. their main focus……. Muschamp will bring Fla.back down to earth with out any sec much less a national championship …………… Go Buckeyes……………..

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Funny how all the Gator Fans are finally wising up to what the rest of the SEC said about Meyer when he was at UF – that he is unscrupulous, has no morals, and is a piece of ****. It’s all fine when the team is winning, isn’t it? And where does he land – with the cheating Scumbags at Ohio State. How many toothless rednecks will jump from bridges when Nick Saban does the same thing in a year or two, and Bama goes back to being what Bama was for 10 years prior to Saban’s arrival?

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GATOR BOWL??? How on Earth can a 6-6 team go to a Jan. 1st bowl??

Oh, and don’t worry, after Meyer has a couple 7-8 win seasons due to scholarship reductions and bowl bans, he’ll cite “health reasons” again.

The man is now infringing on Petrino territory.

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Ok we have 2 NAT in 7 years under Meyers, we also have one under ball coach, should we be dissed under him? no way, this is still the SEC.

Now Mark Saint Richt been at UGA for 11 years and never played for a NAT, I think the Georgia fans are the ones that has been dissed.

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hank -
I didn’t see where anyone answered your question, so here it is. If UGA beats LSU in the SECCG, then the SEC likely would get three BCS teams. The only way a conference can have three BCS teams is if the two teams in the National Championship game did not win their conference.

And yes, I realize UGA was punished in 2007 for not even playing for teh SEC Title and this year Alabama is being rewarded for being in the same situation. No one ever said the BCS wasn’t hypocritical, though.

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Funny,

The SEC SEC has become just like the old school Big 10. There’s two at the top then the rest.

BAMA/LSU make the SEC Least look like JV. Did I not read the the Vanderbilt win was the turning point for the dogs?

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“GATOR BOWL??? How on Earth can a 6-6 team go to a Jan. 1st bowl??”

Has someone confirmed that Florida is even bowl eligible? One of the Gators’ six wins was against Furman, and FCS (Division I-AA) team.

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Meyer has won 2 NAT in 7 years, the ball coach won 1 nat in 5 years so why should we dissed these two champions.
Mark Saint Richt 11 years at UGA no title Georgia fans are the one that has been dissed.

BulldogBen

3 Nat in 10 years and we played LSU and Ala during the season, we did not play 500 or below teams and won 8 straight””’

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Buckeye, I love ya like a brother, but CPJ talked big about the SEC and it looks like Clemson, Weak Forest and Tech all lost their rivalry games.. along with our annual beat down of Tech… You can talk crow now with your hiring of Meyer but let’s see how your cheating sanctions pan out with loss of schollies etc, etc, etc… How is your boy Tressell feeling these days along with your Paterno and his “boys”????

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in my humble opinion, he did what vince dooley did many years ago. saw declining teams on the horizon and quit

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man am I glad Muschamp is at Fla

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He won’t have the talent pool up there that he did at Florida, but the competition will be easier…..he will do ok….don’t forsee any National Championships there though…

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Meyer will not win a NC in 3 years. Sorry, Mark but your futility in prognostication will continue on with that prediction.

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Bobdog,

I will not joke about the Penn State story. Simply revolting. All Tressel did was lie about tattoos because he was worried his players were caught up with the wrong guy – who happens to now be a convicted felon. No arrests, no failed drug tests, in our mess.

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I wonder if UF can go after him and OSU if he was under a long term contract with UF when he left.

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“He’s a first-class guy.”

I assume by this he meant that Urbie would throw a passenger off the plane to get from coach to first-class… there’s really no other way to interpret that comment.

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His recruiting ability is an Urban legend. Look at the losers he left Muschamp to work with. He “retired” because he had to depend on his own recruits.

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I’ve read this column. It will forever be in my mind. I won’t forget and it’s GOING TO BE A BIG DEAL.

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$6M? Thats a lot of reasons to coach again. Believe he now is the highest paid college coach? Also believe he has a huge ego that had something to do w/his declining health knowing the man child was leaving Gainsville for denver. I don’t think he takes losing well especially after being national champs at FL twice. Thats hard to follow but at FL its expected. That probably led to his anxiety attacks and a way out at FL. So now he’s back in his home state making $6 mil a year but he’ll keep his beach home in FL. Not bad for the Urban Crier.

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Hmmmmm,

I wonder of Urban will bring his TIME OUT TIME OUT TIME OUT techniques to the ‘Shoe?

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I wonder if tebo prayed for him and he was healed? Just asking. As always GO DOGS & GATA

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We all knew he was a low rent scum ball. Why the surprise?

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“His recruiting ability is an Urban legend. Look at the losers he left Muschamp to work with. He ‘retired’ because he had to depend on his own recruits.”

Urban Meyer was hired as Florida’s head coach for the 2005 season. The Gators’ 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes were entirely his. In 2009, the Gators were ranked No. 1 for the first twelve games, played for an SEC championship, won a BCS bowl game, and finished 13-1. The 2009 team was composed entirely have his own recruits.

Did I mention that the Gators’ 2008 BCS national championship team was composed of 80% of Urban Meyer’s recruits including Tim Tebow, Percy Harvin and Brandon Spikes—-three consensus All-Americans?

Please do your homework before you speak and embarrass yourself again.

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“He is too good on Gameday.”

If by “good” you mean “horribly whiny and inconsistent”, yeah, you’re right, Pollack isn’t ready to compromise himself in that fashion.

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“I wonder if tebo prayed for him and he was healed? Just asking.”

Personally, I don’t believe in burdening God with trivial things like the outcome of an NFL game; He’s got bigger problems like original sin and free will, peace in the Middle East, and Jerry Sandusky. But you know what? There seems to be an awful lot of good kharma rolling off of Tim Tebow’s sideline “meditations” and onto the Denver Broncos these last six games. Let’s just call it the “Power of Positive Thinking.”

Sincerity goes a long a way in this world. And, yes, I would put a fiver on the fact that Tim said more than one prayer for Urban.

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Gators should have offered Spurrier the job.. Money talks. After all Fla. hires a ex Ga. player..u think he is going to make Fla. a winning team ?. I smell sabatoge
Hunker down

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Makes you wonder what it was about Florida that Meyer didn’t like. Obviously he was sick last year, but now it is not so obvious what it was that made him “sick.” Maybe it was the SEC pressure?? The “Big Ten” (or 12, or whatever) has its own kind of pressure, but maybe he perceives it as qualitatively less. It’ll be fun to watch. He’s a great coach, so I woud just warn Michigan that they better get it strapped on.

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Good read Mark. I do think he has some health problems and coaching football is not the answer.
Couldn’t walk a way from the money. Really this is the second time Florida has been screwed.
Spurrier should have gone back.

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31-17, maybe he was aware of how good LSU, Bama, UGA, and SC would be this year? The SEC is a has been a tough town to play in, just ask GT, Clemson, and Wake. LSU and Bama athletes look like pro teams this year. Admittedly, they have had easy schedules and haven’t been tested yet because they haven’t played Georgia (kidding).

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I think Meyer saw Florida was stacked with talent so he came in and got his championships and when the talent left he left.

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Mark -

Jobbed? Your kidding right? Meyer did what he was paid to do (and he did it very well) which was to rebuild UF after the Zooker disaster. Anyone who follows college sports and thinks that coaches are loyal to a fault to the institutions that hire them were either born yesterday or the day before. And anyone on this site that has had only one job in their work career and did not look for new opportunities to build upon their previous successes is either a government employee or works in a family owned business.

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Florida is going to be fine. Even if Muschamp turns out not to be the guy, they’ll find another great coach. Too good a program in such a talent rich state to be down for very long. I sure will enjoy seeing them struggle for a while though… so I hope Muschamp does struggle.

I do find it interesting that now Ohio State is Meyer’s dream job… that may be the case, but I thought the media was spinning Notre Dame as his dream job just a couple of years ago, so which is it?

No way to know for sure, but it would have been interesting if the health issues / burnout never surfaced at Florida… would he have left Florida for Ohio State if he was still the coach of the Gators?

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SSI Gator.. I don’t think Zook was as big a disaster as Gator fans like to believe. They clearly made the right decision to fire him, but you have to give Zook some credit, the guy can recruit. Heck I wish Georgia could afford to hire Zook right now as a special teams coach/recruiting coordinator.

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Does anyone honestly believe this a-hole has a health issue? The issue WAS that he was stressed out, couldn’t take it anymore, and needed some time off. He made up a bunch of other b.s. and blew that up everyone’s rear-ends but the reality is that he was burnt out and it was causing him to have an irregular heartbeat. End of story.

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By the way, an irregular heartbeat caused by stress generally goes back to normal once you get settled down. I have little doubt this is what happened.

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Meyer always has had the appearance of a snake oil salesman. He recruited dirty, had more arrests in his 6 years than any coach in any 6 year period of their employment. Something always seemed fishy after he quit then didn’t then did again the next year? I hope he doesn’t have the health problems he claimed, but it’s really hard to buy that story.

Was it the arrests? Was it the depleted talent level and him knowing Florida was in for a couple of rough years? Was there something going on in Gainesville that no one knows about???? I think he may have been looking out for his legacy and overall coaching record rather than his team? Florida is actually a better job but he chose the easier job. Less competition and expectations!

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Urban left Florida partly because of the stress of competition in the SEC. He should do well at Ohio State when you consider less competition (1 or 2 tough teams per year, instead of 4 or 5), no conference championship to deal with, and ESPN and the pollsters history of putting Ohio State at the top of the class.

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LMAO! Meyer taking the job is a slap on the face to UF.

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Atl. Gator Lighten up man cry baby has a right to his belief and so do you. If I want to go to church I do when I pray it is a personal thing not for show. If you don’t think God has a sense of humor look in the mirror. We all worship in our own way but if the hungry are not feed and the sick die how could a prayer help a football game?

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“One thing that stings him deep down, is that Tebow and Zook really are the reason he won two(2) national titles.”

You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts. Ron Zook would not have a national championship with the combined 2011 rosters of Alabama and LSU. His record as a head coach speaks for itself: a combined 51-59 at Florida and Illinois, including 23-14 at Florida.

Spurrier’s career win-loss record is 186-73-2, including 122-27-1 at Florida, and winning records at South Carolina and Duke (!). Meyer’s career win-loss record is 103-23, including 65-15 at Florida, and winning seasons at Utah and Bowling Green (!).

Big, big difference.

Spurrier and Meyer are great coaches and will win wherever they go. Zook just ain’t that smart, and was the only available option when no one else wanted to walk in Spurrier’s shoes in 2002.

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And what’s up with FrontA$$’s cane he was sporting at the FSU game? dude was a bad hire, IMO.

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Hate the Gators and couldn’t care less. Meyer left when he realized Zooks recruits were going to be gone. Meyer never had the stable of recruits that Zook had. Meyer won with Zooks guys. not his

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@Atlanta Gator

Urban Meyer vs. Auburn?

0-2

Just sayin’.

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Whether it is Spurrier moving on to another SEC teams or Meyer and his rehab and sabbatical, they all have it in their blood and are lost if they can’t be on the sidelines…He brought UF two National Championships and I for one wish him well..

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Boy, the state of Georgia has some really dumb, petty, and childish know-it-alls… This Dawg fan realizes that Meyer is a terrific coach and is glad that he is coaching in the Big 10 instead of the SEC (bet Mark Richt is, too)… How can anyone call Muschamp a traitor because he got a good job? What idiocy… you dumb crackuhs play that loyalty thing just a little too far, don’t you? What a bunch of fools… take a big gulp of reality one day, you bunch of insignificant twits… SO WHAT IF MEYER CHANGED HIS MIND??? He’s now the head coach at HIS school, making upwards of 6 million… I’m sure he could care less what some hayseed dipsheet from Georgia thinks about his character… You p-heads don’t know your behinds from a goal post… Don’t know the difference between your and you’re, either, but that’s not surprising…

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There were three factors in Urban leaving UF:

He did have a health issue. Treatable
Urban grew disgusted with the way the S E C and Mike Slive handled the Cam Newton case and he had dirt on the Newton stuff as well as his own alumni. Dirt.

He quickly found out that Les Miles and Nick Saban could coach and outwork him while shutting sown his spread offense with big fast athletes on defense.

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No surprise that Meyer is going back into coaching – it’s in his blood. He should find things easier in the B1G – the other traditional power in his Division is about to go through years of turmoil meaning he’s only going to have 2 very tough conference games every year (Wisconsin and Michigan). Even with sanctions (assuming the NCAA actually does something meaningful to OSU), Meyer will have OSU winning the conference within 3 years and in the discussion for the BCSCG.

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Also, Gator fans enlighten me on the mess Urban left. Your D line is 2 deep in NFL talent that gave up 39 yards of offense in the first half against FSU. I’ll take it.

Again, though, tell me what I am missing as far as the mess. You mean like a mess in that you are not winning a BCS every other year?

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Hey Florida fans

Congrats on losing your best coach

Keep up the arrogance your fanbase shows every year; hopefully your program falls into shambles for decades to come

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His health “issues” strangely coincided with Tebow’s eligibility running out. Then his health rapidly got worse as losses began to come with more frequency. Strange malady.

Plainly said, it seems to me he bailed when the going got tough. Definitely sounds like a heart problem.

Not sure his offense is well suited for Big Ten football anyway.

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Again, not being a jerk….just don’t think you guys are that bad off.

You lost your starting QB and backup in a brand new complicated scheme. Your OL is also adjusting to the I-form set as well as your RB’s having to block (as a UGA fan, the RB blocking thing sucks).

Just saying, your recruiting class a couple of years ago had 5 5 star DL…..steep.

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I can’t ever take this man at his word again. It isn’t worth spit.

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The reality is that Urban Meyer is a great coach and no matter why he left UF, he won two NC’s in a short time. He has proven he can coach going undefeated at Utah. As a Dawg fan I am sure glad he is gone from UF for sure. I hate Florida but also feel like Muschamp could still be a good coach. Using the first year as a barometer when switching from spread to Pro Style offense is going to take some time. Kind of lack going from 4-3 to 3-4 defense like UGA last year.

It is impossible to judge a man’s character based on retiring and taking another job in a year. Only Coach Meyer knows the whole story.

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@ Nom – part of the “mess” is the result of serious holes/misses in recruiting (check out our offensive line, wide receivers and DB’s) and a lack of depth (under 70 scholarship players), the other part is just the transition from the spread option, particularly Meyer’s inability to recruit a starting RB who weighs more than 180 lbs (not his fault, but still part of the current mess in Gville).

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“I don’t think Zook was as big a disaster as Gator fans like to believe. They clearly made the right decision to fire him, but you have to give Zook some credit, the guy can recruit.”

Boise Dawg, one of the Gators’ non-football head coaches from 2004 is a personal acquaintance of mine. My acquaintance said that the consensus among the other Gators coaches (non-football head coaches, that is) was that Zook was just not that bright, and sealed his own fate when he got into a Sunday morning verbal altercation at the Pi Kappa Phi house after a particularly ugly loss to Mississippi State. Zook was a “player’s coach” who stood up for his players, but had no ability to discipline them. That didn’t sit well with Jeremy Foley or Bernie Machen. His inability to win big games didn’t help, either.

I also have the luxury of a second acquaintance who knew Zook when they were both graduate assistants at Miami University (Ohio) in the mid-1970s. My acquaintance said Zook was a nice guy, had a great rapport with the players, but engaged in very stupid public behavior like smoking dope with the Redskins players at fraternity parties. Maybe it’s a little unfair to hang that albatross around Zook’s neck 30 years later, but the anecdotes of both acquaintances, plus his record at Florida (on and off the field), leave me with no warm and fuzzy feelings about the Zooker.

BTW, at Florida, you’re supposed to recruit well, dagnabbit. The state of Florida is one of the three most fertile high school football recruiting grounds in America. Even Zook couldn’t screw that up. Once you recruit them, then you have to coach them. Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer can recruit and coach. Ron Zook? Not so much.

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TIME OUT

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@War Eagle 30082:

Duly noted, sir.

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They still have Clown Bobo!

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I guess I could google it, and I’m not saying I don’t believe it, but does anyone know what Meyer’s health problems are exactly?

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“Now Mark Saint Richt been at UGA for 11 years and never played for a NAT, I think the Georgia fans are the ones that has been dissed.”

Exactly. But racking up 10 wins against a weak schedule will keep him in Athens for another 10 years at least.

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Good offensive and defensive lines win championships. They can make ordinary skill players look good.

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Meyer quit cause he knew the talent at Florida was way down and pretty much expected the year the Gators had this year. Gator fans should be glad the WUSS is gone

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Also, I want Shareff Floyd….and a taco

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Here was Meyer’s assessment of the status of his team after last year’s FSU game:

“The fix starts tomorrow,” Meyer said. ” … There’s one way to do it, and it’s hard work and go rebuild it. … We’re going to rebuild it right, though. Not wrong. We’ll rebuild it right.”

Of course, he quit a few days later. Too much hard work involved, I guess.

Oh, and then he got to ESPN and said that he left a “loaded” team behind in Gainesville.

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We’ll give you Weis for a coach to be named later. You can keep Bobo.

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@Gatorbait, do you think the Ohio State situation is more or less difficult than what he would have faced trying to reload at Florida? Seriously asking the question. Obviously, Florida has fallen as step behind a few of the powers in the SEC but there aren’t any real scandals and it’s a good state in which to start looking to reload. It’ll be interesting to see which program comes back quicker from 6-6 seasons.

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Q: If LSU beats UGA, can Sugar Bowl take another SEC team or do they have to reach out to another confrence?

I know there was something about 1-2 from the same confrence that in this case, a third team could go to a BCS game, but could it be UGA if they loose to LSU?

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I’m a pathetic attention whoooring classless POS, just like my new coach!

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No dawg fan cares where CUM goes Bkeye. And no UGA fan said Muschamp was the greatest to walk the earth… just a possible candidate. Your blabing nonsense.

Glad urban is at Ohio State and UGA fans hope to be meeting him on the field in comming years.

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As a Gator, yes, we do feel JOBBED by this LIAR! He wants his players to buy into his system, have character and the like, and he leaves a great program all based upon LIES!!! I do not think Muschamp is the answer either. FL should have hired Spurrier back when they had the chance!

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“Good offensive and defensive lines win championships. They can make ordinary skill players look good.” (Jamie @1:32 pm)

Never have truer words been written in a Mark Bradley column/blog. Unsurprisingly, they were not written by Mark Bradley. LOL

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“Recruits take a look at the offensive skill players that have gone on to Florida under UM very few have made it to the NFL. NO WR-NO RB-A FEW OL & A TE. HIS SYSTEM DOES NOT GET KIDS READY FOR THE NFL”

Hmmm . . . . let’s see.

Percy Harvin, starting NFL wide receiver (2009-2011);
Maurkice Pouncey, starting NFL offensive lineman (2010-2011);
Mike Pouncey, starting NFL offensive lineman (2011);
Maurice Hurt, starting NFL offensive lineman (2011);
Louis Murphy, starting NFL wide receiver (2009-2010), injured (2011);
Aaron Hernandez, starting NFL tight end (2010-2011)
Riley Cooper, backup NFL wide receiver (2010-2011); and
Chas Henry, starting NFL punter (2011).

That’s only on the offensive side of the ball. There are even more of Urban Meyer’s former defensive team Gators playing in the NFL today.

I’m sorry did you just say something foolish? Should have restricted your comment to quarterbacks, and then you would have had a defensible point. Oh, yeah, and then there’s that Cam Newton kid, but he didn’t graduate from Florida, did he? How’s he doing in the NFL?

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@Nom Nom Nom Chuck,

We’ll give you your pick of taco combo specials—-but only if you keep Bobo.

: )

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Charlie (Weeble) Weiss is an embarrassment. He should have to pay a 500% surcharge for his pants. I’ve seen skinnier women trying to get Social Security Disability.

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hey Buckeye…..care to take a guess at osu’s all time record vs the SEC?

Let me save you the time of googling it………1 win..9 losses!

CUM will do just fine in the slow, plodding weak 10!!!!!!!

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Brokeback,

No, Sir. You are wrong. The lone win was vacated.

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We supported Urban when he won games. Urban is not a likeable guy, we would not have supported him otherwise.

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Folks,

It is really pretty simple. I believe he did have some health issues when he left Florida. I think the pressure to succeed got to him, as it appears that Florida fans and the university demanded a lot of him. He delivered with two NC’s in six years. Not too shabby in my book. He is a native of Ohio and he went home, I believe, to settle down there as he knew he would be given a chance to do some type of football analysis or game day job.
Then OSU got caught because their good coach, couldn’t accept a few things and lied about them on a official form letter to be sent to the NCAA every year. It wasn’t a mistake or an over sight, it was falsifying a document. It led to the uncovering of a fair amount of violations and the coach in place this year, didn’t seem to be able to put a stop to it.
So, Mr. Meyer is sitting there, enjoying his gig somewhat, even though he was working for one of the most over rated sports news organizations in the world, but he was picking up a little pocket change from them, and at the same time, keeping his mind in at least, on what to him is his true passion in life;Football.
Now OSU feels the need to try and move on and get their team, back on an even keel, and a top notch football mind is needed and there sits Urban. So, the really great AD and college president of OSU, think, “What amount of money, would it take for Urban to take this job”. They arrive at a figure that makes a lot of colleges choke on their oatmeal,and it is around 6 million dollars per year. Once they offer it to Urban, his health suddenly takes a back seat. 7 years there and he can buy the state of Ohio if he so wishes. He took the money, the same as anybody else would have done, if it was offered.
He didn’t betray the Gators. In all actuality, he probably just got tired of the pressure cooker that is the SEC, and Florida, and the stress wasn’t worth continuing because he was fairly well set with the money at that point. Stress can lead to a variety of illness’s or symptoms that are similar to serious problems. However, when a college team comes calling and offers over 40 million for you services for 7 years, you suddenly heal up in the body darn quick.

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I am surprised that most Sports Writers did not understand why Meyer left Florida (are you guys/gals that gullible). As each year progressed, he lost his best assistance coach Offensive Coordinator Dan Mullins to Miss State and his replacement was ineffective, and he lost his star QB (Tebow).

Urban saw this decline coming, and got out. Goodness, this was easy to see.

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Urban left b/c Tebow was done….bottom line!!

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