News From Ill-Gotten Gainesville
I case you have not heard, Urban “Don’t call Me Corch Meyers” Meyer has decided to take another run at leisure. He was supposed to start said leave after signing day, but he just didn’t have the heart. I’m also sure it skipped a beat when he heard that his DT Gary Brown had been arrested for slapping several women at a party over the weekend.
Meyer is to take this time between now and spring football, which is set to start at UF on March 17th, as his much publicized but never realized leave of absense. It would be interesting to see if Las Vegas has a line on how long this attempt will last. His prior foray into relaxation lasted only a “miserable” 36 hours.
Disarray Oh Disarray
Here we sit on January 9th , 2010 and the football world as we know it is in complete disarray. First Florida’s Urban Meyer goes off what he thought was the deep end and hit his head. Now Pete Carroll is rumored to be leaving the college football mecca that is USC for the NFL. Both programs have enjoyed tremendous success but both now face an uncertain future. Disarray oh Disarray.
Meyer’s health issues and putting family first was apparently just a 24 hour bug. Now he says he feels in his gut he will be back for the 2010 season. Looney Tunes was always my favorite. Stay tuned for more hilarity.
Pete Carroll has been ultra successful as Trojan Man but ongoing investigations about impropriety going all the way back to Reggie Bush’s apartment and more recently Joe McKnight driving a Land Rover around LA. Nice! Charlie Weis also put a spot-light on the RUMOR that ole Petie had a sweetie on the beach in Malibu. All of this,in addition to a sub-par season and several early defections make the future less than golden in the Golden State.
Former USC RB Lendale White said he was very disappointed in the idea that Carroll would leave after preaching family and loyalty for 10 years. White went on to say that he expected Carroll to be stay at USC like Bobby Bowden did at FSU. Lendale needs to understand that those days are gone.
Ambition and attrition are the realities of the day.
Urban Meyer is full of it
I am sitting here watching the press conference where Florida’s Urban Meyer is announcing his choice of a leave of absence versus resigning. Yesterday, when I heard he was resigning, I was shocked and pleasantly surprised. I don’t wish him any ill will and I did not make fun of the situation as many people chose to do. But a Florida Gator program without Urban Meyer is a plus, period. More and more it appears his condition is self induced and not life threatening.
This seemingly endless presser is turning into a glorious recruiting infomercial for the Florida Gators, during a time when coaches cannot contact recruits directly. Do you not think every player whether committed or not is watching this crap?
All the love and family espoused for the players and how it figured so prominently in his second decision in 24 hours. The bottom line is that all the decisions made and changed in the last few days could have been made quietly in the off-season. He could have reprioritized his life and not tell us about it, because honestly, I don’t care.
Mark May just said the same thing…all this could have waited til after the bowl game.
Thanks Mark!
SEC Flagged for Illegal Man On Field
The Florida Gators beat the Georgia Bulldogs in tackle football Saturday. I had hoped for a better showing, but I’m not the least bit shocked we lost. What I am shocked about is the fact that apparently it’s okay to attempt to injure your opponent in today’s SEC with impunity. I expected Urban Meyer to react with minimal objections, but Mike Slive’s office should be ashamed….again.
As you may know, Brandon Spikes, LB for Florida was caught on video holding Georgia running back Washaun Ealey down and purposely attempt to gouge him in the eyes. The punishment? Sit down for the first half against Vanderbilt, and don’t do it again, okay? I saw some Gator blogs today that stated if…IF Spikes did this intentionally, it was bad. Except the prick that does EDSBS…who thought it was great. Screw him.
The Southeastern Conference is now a wild west show, where anything goes. I know you are familiar with the officiating, but this is a safety issue. If nothing else, player safety should be job one in Birmingham, but it’s not. Don’t worry, I can still say what I want. Let them try and reprimand or suspend me!
Now, players can do whatever they want up to and including purposely injure another player without any real repercussions.
The main lesson here? Don’t get caught next time. Great job Mr. Slive!
G, I love the “U” Too
I love The University of Georgia. That’s THE University of Georgia. The “G”. I do have a couple of new “loves”. Well, love is a strong word. A word one shouldn’t throw around or use lightly. Maybe infatuation would be a better word. I was listening to sports talk radio and the discussion started with Urban Meyer’s raise to $4 million a year to whether this closed the door of him possibly going to Notre Dame someday. His buy-out is only $500,000.00, small change for most top tier programs. He would be crazy to leave Gainesville, but as the commentator said, high achievers seek challenges, and the Urbanator is an achiever. Okay, we’ll go with achiever, sure.
All of a sudden, someone mentioned Mark Richt. I threw up in my mouth a little. I regained my composure enough to hear it said that if Miami continues to struggle that over time Coach Richt may consider a return to his Alma mater. To resurrect that program a challenge worth considering. At this point I puked out the window, luckily it was down.
Coach Richt has said repeatedly that he considers Athens his home now, but I for one will not take chances. That is why I will be ordering some Miami Hurricane swag and for good measure, Florida State as well. Nothing orange mind you, some green for the “U” and I look dang good in garnet and gold, if I do say so myself.
I will have to be more organized this fall and coordinate my wardrobe throughout the day on Saturdays. I don’t know about your secondary affiliations, but I want all Dawg fans to get on board the train to keep Coach Mark Richt in Athens where he belongs. I don’t want officials from Miami or Florida State rethinking their most recent moves and look northward for alternatives.
Bobby Bowden needs to retire and let Jimbo Fisher truly lead the Seminoles. I am hopeful Randy Shannon can continue the Miami revival and win big in the ACC. Besides leaving our coach alone, that would mean beating the “bees” on a regular basis.
A true win-win-win-lose!
Mark Richt’s 10 wins not enough?
Are you kidding me? Just put the bong down and walk away. No seriously. (more…)
The New F-word…
It’s not what you think. I just wanted to get your attention. I am so sick of hearing about THAT place and THOSE people, I don’t think I’m ever going there on vacation ever again. My dad moved back from PCB last year, I know what Mickey Mouse looks like, I get my oranges from Publix.
We must draw a line in the sand!
It’s all some people can talk about. Can we cross the border and ever win on a regular basis? Uh yeah…it’s not the Bermuda Short Triangle, which some believe exists and is thought to be between Fernandina Beach, McClenny and St Augustine. Apparently great football players, at least those wearing red and black, all of a sudden lose their athletic ability. I think it’s called Ereptile Dysfunction. I call it BS.
Those teams from the F-State have always had great players with tremendous talent. I heard on one radio show or maybe it was on the Dawgvent that stated that the growth in the state of “F” have changed the dynamics of the W.L.O.C.P. shhhh or as some would say, the AA meeting for a beating. Well, unless the next QB is an 80 year old red shirt freshman named Haime Abramowicz, I ain’t making that excuse. The Dynamics that have changed is the Coitch…SS and UM…see I don’t even say their names in mixed company anymore.
See that face! We can make him do it again!
There is a fine line between focus and obsession and an even finer one between obsession and you are just being stupid. Are you one of those that has lost all perspective? I have talked about it once in the past week, because of someone else’s(MR) comments regarding the “F”.
Believe me, we should be worried about the “OS”.
Tell me what you really think!