Urban Meyer on Elite Talent

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(05-20-2020, 08:55 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: I find it incredibly presumptuous to think that the main reason people are knocking Urban Meyer is simply because he coached at Ohio State.

Did it ever occur to those who feel this way, that maybe people have formed these opinions based soley on his history rather than only ONE of the schools he's coached at?  Is the team you root for that important that you just assume that it has to be about them, and only them?

I don't like the band Nickelback.  Shocking and bold statement, I know.  Would it be fair to assume I only dislike them because they're Canadian?  What if I told you I love Rush, and have seen a ton of Dan Ackroyd and Rick Moranis movies?  Could it be I just think Nickelback makes bad music, and that Canada has nothing to do with it?

And describing his history as having "a few bad apples" is comical.  That's akin to a real estate agent telling you the house that had a roof torn clean off in a hurricane, where it also suffered significant flood damage, is a "fixer uper".

He didn't have a few bad apples, he had a barrel full of rotton apples. If you were count all of the "bad apples" in every coaches basket during his time at Florida, he'd be at or near the top.  If it were an bad apple picking competition there's a good chance he was taking home that ribbon or trophy.

And if you start factoring in everything else, in additon to just having a "few bad apples" he continues to seperate himself.  If you look at the emails that came out, the former player stories, the fact he's a fraud who claims to hold bible studies, then he might just be the worst of them all.

Now you can disagree with all that, and that's fine. If you want to put your head in the sand and ignore it, ok. If you want to rationlize it by whining that other coaches do it too, like a toddler, then that's your perogitive.  But don't just assume that others only point these things out because one of three schools he coached at was Ohio State.

Urban Meyer's stop after Florida could have been Oklahoma State, or it could have been North Carolina, or any other schools that's not Ohio State.  With the same history the chances are a lot of people still think he's a huge scumbag and a complete fraud.  So Ohio State has nothing to do with it.  Him being a giant douchnozzle of a coach is the determing and driving factor into people's opinions of him.

I honestly wonder what the opinion of Urban would be around here if he had stayed at Florida and knocked the Buckeyes out of a few CFP's.