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A leave of absence until the fall doesn't really make any sense IMO
I don't think he will do that.
I don't think he will do that.
Update: Meyer taking "indefinite leave of absence."
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^I think Urban made a snap quick decision, slept on it, and changed his mind today. Him saying he'll take the spring off is just a way to make it not lookas bad seeing how everything leaked last night.
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Tip...hop of it
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[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)][/color]Originally Posted by Mamba MVP
Tip...hop of it
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)][/color]
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Stop wanting to be a fan of only winning teams, its ok to root for a team notwinning constantly....You the type of n_ that goes goes buy the championship shirt the next day, just to be part of the *#@* going on!!![/color]
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Yes clearly that has to be it...I don't have ties to any of those teams.
I'm also assuming you're mad by all the exclamation points and red font...keep it moving son.
I'm also assuming you're mad by all the exclamation points and red font...keep it moving son.
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sig materialOriginally Posted by Mamba MVP
Originally Posted by DLo13
UF just needs to call Spurrier.
Can't believe I forgot the 'ol ball coach, but I thought he said that South Carolina was gonna be his last stop.
@ Da U fans getting all excited, yall aint back on top of nothing with Jacory back there at QB.
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Originally Posted by Fear The Ibis
sig materialOriginally Posted by Mamba MVP
Originally Posted by DLo13
UF just needs to call Spurrier.
Can't believe I forgot the 'ol ball coach, but I thought he said that South Carolina was gonna be his last stop.
@ Da U fans getting all excited, yall aint back on top of nothing with Jacory back there at QB.
Yes it is, I will be saving that quote for future reference, let's see where UM and UF are in the rankings at this same time next year.
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[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]Please...Just entertain me with these so called ties you have witheach of these teams, which all so happen to be winning only???[/color]Originally Posted by Mamba MVP
Yes clearly that has to be it...I don't have ties to any of those teams.
I'm also assuming you're mad by all the exclamation points and red font...keep it moving son.
[color= rgb(255, 0, 0)]And you can check my past post, i always type in Red, Georgia font, and boldb%t#h!!![/color]
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Originally Posted by Dynamic X
How are you not a University of Chicago Maroons fan though?Just playing.
How am I going to root against my own school?
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Mamba, you go to UF don't you?
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yea I think he does and i think he's from Bama as well.
At least he isn't one of those people who roots for teams from wherever they have lived in their lives. I know some friends like that.
At least he isn't one of those people who roots for teams from wherever they have lived in their lives. I know some friends like that.
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Let's keep it real, dude lost his heart to coach knowing that the best years may be behind him. Thehealth issue and spending more time with the family was simply a red herring.
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just like most times you love talking out of your #@+
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I got a fan I see.
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I think it has something to do with the whole trying to pass your opinion off as a fact thing.
I mean unless you have information that nobody else has, then you're just blowing smoke.
I mean unless you have information that nobody else has, then you're just blowing smoke.
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im saying
in this day and age if it was something else you think florida and Meyers could hide it? HELL NO
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"Oh, so a lot other people make themselves sound like idiots on Niketalk, I'm gonna do it too!!!!"
and for future reference, if you're gonna call someone a herb try not to start your posts with:
and for future reference, if you're gonna call someone a herb try not to start your posts with:
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I honestly think the dude has health problems. Why we gotta be herbs tho' ?
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NEW ORLEANS -- We have this news update from Flip-Flop Florida, the school that drops bombshells and then magically turns them into daisies before theydetonate:
Following the U-turn tradition of Gators men's basketball coach Billy Donovan, football counterpart Urban Meyer announced Sunday that he is not leavingthe school after all. At least not for good.
He is taking a leave of absence after the Sugar Bowl against Cincinnati here later this week, with assistant Steve Addazio in the thankless role of keepingMeyer's throne warm.
How long will the leave of absence be? We don't know. It's realistic to believe Florida doesn't know, either.
What exactly will his leave of absence entail? We don't know. Again, it's realistic to believe that remains a work in progress for the Gators.
Is this resignation-turned-leave based on doctor's advice? Or counter to doctor's advice? We don't know. Because Meyer wouldn't answer myquestion about it.
And why did Meyer turn the football world upside down one day and then rescind his resignation the next? We have Florida's explanation, and it onlyleaves me counting the ways this could have been handled better.
The likelihood that he will return to coaching is a good thing -- college football is better with Urban Meyer than without him. Everyone should hope one ofthe game's brightest stars strikes a perfect work-family balance and lives a long and healthy life.
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But Florida's "We Love Us" Sunday press conference left me feeling like Urban just had a drama-queen weekend for the ages.
"The last 24 hours," said suddenly secondary Florida figure Tim Tebow,"have definitely been a whirlwind in dealing with everything."
We know the stated reason for the brilliant 45-year-old coach's sudden, stunning resignation was health concerns that forced him to realign hisperspective and put his family first. He mentioned his family three times in the resignation statement released Saturday night, and athletic director JeremyFoley mentioned it twice more in the same statement.
Then on Sunday, Meyer apparently went out to practice and decided that burnout is for losers, and his family may or may not come before his players. Theyhad a spirited practice in unseasonably cold weather and, shazam, Urban's not resigning after all! Just taking a vacation of unspecified length! Whilelooming over the program like a 900-foot shadow!
"To see that come out this morning ... with a great attitude and great work ethic and just go to work, I admire that," Meyer said. "I knowI'm dealing with some stuff, and my family comes first. That's never been an issue. That's non-negotiable, that I want to make sure I do right bymy family. My second family are my players and our staff, and to see that was the moment. I went immediately to Jeremy, and we had some discussions afterthat."
Said Foley: "He called me from the practice field, and he didn't come to that decision right then, but he was just, I guess, a little stunned maybe the right word."
The rest of us are a lot stunned.
Who makes a decision as momentous as a resignation at the peak of a man's profession so rashly that he changes his mind the next morning ... because heliked what he saw at practice?
Who would upstage his school's BCS bowl game with a resignation announcement? And then an un-resignation announcement? Why not wait until Jan. 2 for allof that?
And after all the discussion about the intensity hard-wired into Meyer, and how that both built him into a coaching giant and also tore him down physically,we still have no answers about how he's going to change. Saturday night, the certainty seemed to be that if the Urbanator keeps on revving at his currentrate, he'll end up in a hospital and might never walk out. Sunday, there was vague talk about somehow reinventing a mellow Meyer.
"He has to learn to [relax]," Meyer's wife, Shelley, said. "I think he'll make a really good attempt to."
Hopefully, Meyer can figure it out. But the suspicion here is that getting him to not spend that extra hour watching film, to not make that extra recruitingtrip, to not stay up nights agonizing about a blown assignment in a big game will be brutally difficult. It's like asking Mike Tyson to become a finessefighter, or casting Jack Black as Hamlet.
"He'll never be 40 or 50 percent," Foley said. "He won't allow himself to be."
During the press conference, Meyer's three children and Shelley sat in the third row. You had to wonder what was going through their minds -- especiallyafter Meyer acknowledged that he didn't even discuss his change of heart with them until after his phone conversation with Foley on Sunday morning.
"They just found out recently as we stepped on the plane," Meyer said, which means the family-first guy let his wife and kids be among the last toknow.
Meyer also said the first page of his "Play to Win" team manual states that family and health come first. But clearly, he has put neither firstduring his intensely successful nine-year run as a head coach.
Saturday night, Meyer told The New York Times that oldest daughter Nicki rejoiced at the news of his impending resignation, saying, "I've got mydaddy back." Now it appears daddy is only back on temporary loan.
Last time I saw Meyer interact with his family was after Florida's final regular-season game, a romp over Florida State in The Swamp.
After addressing the media, he gave daughter Gigi a hug of unusual length. It was almost as if he were trying to squeeze days, weeks, months -- maybe evenyears -- of missed time into that single embrace.
I thought of that Saturday night, when I heard Meyer was resigning. I wondered if he felt like so many of us middle-aged fathers, watching your kids grow upand hoping you're really an active participant and not just offering drive-by parenting while working your tail off. I found myself admiring him forwalking away from the summit of his lucrative, insanely competitive profession for all the right reasons.
Then Urban Meyer changed his mind. And now I'm not sure what he truly wants.
Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached atESPN4D@aol.com
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NEW ORLEANS -- We have this news update from Flip-Flop Florida, the school that drops bombshells and then magically turns them into daisies before theydetonate:
Following the U-turn tradition of Gators men's basketball coach Billy Donovan, football counterpart Urban Meyer announced Sunday that he is not leavingthe school after all. At least not for good.
He is taking a leave of absence after the Sugar Bowl against Cincinnati here later this week, with assistant Steve Addazio in the thankless role of keepingMeyer's throne warm.
How long will the leave of absence be? We don't know. It's realistic to believe Florida doesn't know, either.
What exactly will his leave of absence entail? We don't know. Again, it's realistic to believe that remains a work in progress for the Gators.
Is this resignation-turned-leave based on doctor's advice? Or counter to doctor's advice? We don't know. Because Meyer wouldn't answer myquestion about it.
And why did Meyer turn the football world upside down one day and then rescind his resignation the next? We have Florida's explanation, and it onlyleaves me counting the ways this could have been handled better.
The likelihood that he will return to coaching is a good thing -- college football is better with Urban Meyer than without him. Everyone should hope one ofthe game's brightest stars strikes a perfect work-family balance and lives a long and healthy life.
[+] Enlarge
Derick E. Hingle/US PresswireWhat changed in 24 hours for Urban Meyer?
But Florida's "We Love Us" Sunday press conference left me feeling like Urban just had a drama-queen weekend for the ages.
"The last 24 hours," said suddenly secondary Florida figure Tim Tebow,"have definitely been a whirlwind in dealing with everything."
We know the stated reason for the brilliant 45-year-old coach's sudden, stunning resignation was health concerns that forced him to realign hisperspective and put his family first. He mentioned his family three times in the resignation statement released Saturday night, and athletic director JeremyFoley mentioned it twice more in the same statement.
Then on Sunday, Meyer apparently went out to practice and decided that burnout is for losers, and his family may or may not come before his players. Theyhad a spirited practice in unseasonably cold weather and, shazam, Urban's not resigning after all! Just taking a vacation of unspecified length! Whilelooming over the program like a 900-foot shadow!
"To see that come out this morning ... with a great attitude and great work ethic and just go to work, I admire that," Meyer said. "I knowI'm dealing with some stuff, and my family comes first. That's never been an issue. That's non-negotiable, that I want to make sure I do right bymy family. My second family are my players and our staff, and to see that was the moment. I went immediately to Jeremy, and we had some discussions afterthat."
Said Foley: "He called me from the practice field, and he didn't come to that decision right then, but he was just, I guess, a little stunned maybe the right word."
The rest of us are a lot stunned.
Who makes a decision as momentous as a resignation at the peak of a man's profession so rashly that he changes his mind the next morning ... because heliked what he saw at practice?
Who would upstage his school's BCS bowl game with a resignation announcement? And then an un-resignation announcement? Why not wait until Jan. 2 for allof that?
And after all the discussion about the intensity hard-wired into Meyer, and how that both built him into a coaching giant and also tore him down physically,we still have no answers about how he's going to change. Saturday night, the certainty seemed to be that if the Urbanator keeps on revving at his currentrate, he'll end up in a hospital and might never walk out. Sunday, there was vague talk about somehow reinventing a mellow Meyer.
"He has to learn to [relax]," Meyer's wife, Shelley, said. "I think he'll make a really good attempt to."
Hopefully, Meyer can figure it out. But the suspicion here is that getting him to not spend that extra hour watching film, to not make that extra recruitingtrip, to not stay up nights agonizing about a blown assignment in a big game will be brutally difficult. It's like asking Mike Tyson to become a finessefighter, or casting Jack Black as Hamlet.
"He'll never be 40 or 50 percent," Foley said. "He won't allow himself to be."
During the press conference, Meyer's three children and Shelley sat in the third row. You had to wonder what was going through their minds -- especiallyafter Meyer acknowledged that he didn't even discuss his change of heart with them until after his phone conversation with Foley on Sunday morning.
"They just found out recently as we stepped on the plane," Meyer said, which means the family-first guy let his wife and kids be among the last toknow.
Meyer also said the first page of his "Play to Win" team manual states that family and health come first. But clearly, he has put neither firstduring his intensely successful nine-year run as a head coach.
Saturday night, Meyer told The New York Times that oldest daughter Nicki rejoiced at the news of his impending resignation, saying, "I've got mydaddy back." Now it appears daddy is only back on temporary loan.
Last time I saw Meyer interact with his family was after Florida's final regular-season game, a romp over Florida State in The Swamp.
After addressing the media, he gave daughter Gigi a hug of unusual length. It was almost as if he were trying to squeeze days, weeks, months -- maybe evenyears -- of missed time into that single embrace.
I thought of that Saturday night, when I heard Meyer was resigning. I wondered if he felt like so many of us middle-aged fathers, watching your kids grow upand hoping you're really an active participant and not just offering drive-by parenting while working your tail off. I found myself admiring him forwalking away from the summit of his lucrative, insanely competitive profession for all the right reasons.
Then Urban Meyer changed his mind. And now I'm not sure what he truly wants.
Pat Forde is a senior writer for ESPN.com. He can be reached atESPN4D@aol.com
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He does. And it's more than his heart problem. People just like to say outlandish %%+$ for the sake of saying it, I guess.Originally Posted by dreClark
I honestly think the dude has health problems. Why we gotta be herbs tho' ?
