Media members, you’ve been warned: if Corch catches you hanging around his student-athletes, the consequences won’t be pretty.
But Urban Meyer says he has had to deal with people getting in the ears of players about the possibility of transferring. Miller would be eligible to transfer and play immediately at another school next season. The fifth-year transfer has risen in the past decade, and Meyer says he’s even heard about some media possibly talking to kids.
“I’m going to research that a little bit,” Meyer said on Bruce Feldman’s podcast. “There’s people in the media that work in high-power positions that, I guess, are having conversations with our players about transferring. I spent a year at ESPN, and I can’t imagine that’s acceptable. If that is going on, and I haven’t had time to research — obviously, we’ve been playing — if anybody in the media is having any conversations with one of your players about transferring, that person doesn’t belong to work in the media anymore. They certainly won’t have access to your program. Those are things you have to be very leery of.”
What a dick.
Although there’s a part of me that hopes it’s somebody at ESPN that’s pissed Meyer off. The resulting spat would be fun to watch, that’s for sure.
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It’s just a matter of time as Corch will become even more insufferable until he again snaps and needs that family time. He has no self-control, it’s either wide-open or step out of the arena. And, if he thinks the gator fans became unbearable, just wait until the tosu folks begin to ride him. After all, we know the only real football is played in the big10 and the WWL will anoint the buckeyes as pre-season #1 for the next decade.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but I for one am very worried about his heart. This kind of stress, members of the media speculating about your program, can be very taxing for a man with heart trouble who needs more family time.
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What does he mean by “talking to our players about transferring?” Does that mean a member of the media asked them if they were going to transfer or actually encouraged them to transfer. There’s a big difference. If they encouraged a player or suggested to a player that they transfer Meyer would be right but just askin’ is doing their job.
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+1
Urban’s the guy at the pool hall with his arm around his lady that scans the room and accuses every passing guy “you lookin’ at my lady!”
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I disagree BI. If someone in the media talks to a tOSU player or recruit and says something to the effect that: “Meyer is a dick and you should consider either not signing or transferring away from him,” that person has every right to his opinion and to say it to anybody he wants to say it to. Meyer is a bully and is used to bullying others to get his way. But he also “has no clothes” and all it would take to “expose” that would be for him to try to get a media person fired and have the employer tell him GFY–publicly! Tell me what Meyer can do about it if the media member is somebody employed by, let’s say, ESPN? Ban ESPN? Meyer needs ESPN a lot more than ESPN needs Meyer.
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Mayor, I have to think you are letting your fandom color your opinion on this one. Far, far, FAR be it from me to defend Corch Meyers, so I won’t. But I will say if some media member was actually trying to influence a Dawg to transfer, I would be disappointed if Richt didn’t show him the door.
To be clear, I don’t know what is going on up in Buckeye Land. I don’t know if that sort of thing is really happening, or if Corch is merely burnishing his asshole credentials. But if it actually is happening, I wouldn’t blame any coach for revoking that person’s access to the team.
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UF fans still pull for SOS except when he’s coaching against the Gators, but I don’t know a Gator who likes Corch now. He is a prick of the highest order.
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Yeah, this is actually true in my experience as well.
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I would pay good money to see one of his teams have a reunion at Florida Field to see if Corch would have the gall to show up in The Swamp and face the Gator Nation.
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You have to wonder if a former quarterback at TOSU has been talking to Miller….heh, heh, heh.
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Corch better get used to such stuff, the new Michigan coach doesn’t play around, or back up.
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Why am I not surprised.
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For those who may cracks about how Urban Meyer is “living in our heads rent free”: stories like these are what make that viewpoint bullshit. The guy is a hell of a football coach, but he’s also a douchbag in a class by himself. As long as he is coaching, I’ll root against him because of crap like this.
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I hope this is true for no other reason than I want to see him ‘investigate’ who’s responsible and administer proper judgement. I’ll get my popcorn ready so I can sit back and watch the show.
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It would be the first time he has ever investigated anything. He is the King of looking the other way while nefarious shit is going on. He is rich at QB and 2 guys are gonna be the odd men out. Can he lie long enough to keep all 3? I don’t think even he is that good of a liar.
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No kidding. I haven’t forgotten he’s the king of character judgment.. who was the Florida player that fired off an AK-47 in a parking lot? Got booted and then a year later allowed back? All I know is he was highly rated.. I doubt a 3rd stringer would have gotten that kind of forgiveness. Urb is a douche of the highest order.
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Since we are talking about Urban Meyer I have a serious question: What is the difference between a dick, a prick and a douchebag? Are they interchangeable? Do these words connote specific human shortcomings? Can someone simultaneously be all three–or two out of the three? Or can someone be a dick because of something he did and then morph into a douchebag because of something else he did?
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I don’t know if there is a proper description for what Urban is.. so interchangeable descriptions are used. I’m fine with that.
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In my educated opinion dick, prick and douchebag are interchangeable but also additive. ie: dick + prick + douchebag + total asshole = Urban Meyer.
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My son was explaining what a Procedure 11 was. We get these lessons weekly. In his explanation he summed it up as when one attorney is behaving like an azzhat. My bride was unfamiliar with the term (I know, all that time in college and she missed that?) and my son offered You know like a dickwad, a douche.
Later that night I turned the thermostat down and she complained that it made it too cold when sleeping. I responded with “just grab an extra blanket honey, you’ll be fine.”
To which she responded ” Don’t be an azzhat! Turn it back up!”
Yikes! What’s next?
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“if anybody in the media is having any conversations with one of your players about transferring, that person doesn’t belong to work in the media anymore”
Don’t get me wrong, Urban Meyer is a dick, but I don’t feel like there’s anything wrong with this. I doubt CMR would be happy about media members trying to get in the ear of some of our players about transferring, either.
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Amen. Corch is undeniably an asshole, but this (if true) is not one of the many reasons why he is an asshole.
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“There’s people in the media that work in high-power positions that, I guess, are having conversations with our players about transferring. I spent a year at ESPN, and I can’t imagine that’s acceptable.”
If by ‘conversations’ he means asking Braxton Miller if he is going to transfer like Russell Wilson, I can’t imagine it’s acceptable not to ask him. That’s a manifestly newsworthy subject.
To make an example, Corch will pick out a beat reporter from some small town paper and threaten to punch him.
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…and Woodrow Hayes will nod from on High.
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BREAKING NEWS…BREAKING NEWS….BEEP BEEP BEEP…. AP in Columbus Ohio reports there are numerous reports of black helicopters circling the Urban Meyer Compound near Columbus.
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Meyer is arguably the best coach in college football, certainly one of the top 2. So you all can criticize/poke fun/call names but he’s better than Richt who hasn’t won a meaningful trophy since 2005. Meyer took a OSU program whose previous coach left them in a complete mess and won a NC in 3 short years, and he did it this time with his third-string QB. That is a remarkable achievement.
So tell me guys, who is the demonstrably better football coach, Mark Richt or Urban Meyer?
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Corch is still a dick.
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I’m not debating that. My questions is why does any Georgia fan care?
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I understand when you’re a MARK RICHT SUX hammer, everything looks like a nail to you.
I’m not a hammer.
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The hammer is not my only tool so everything does not look like a nail. Furthermore I do not think our HC sucks — I think he’s a fine man and a good football coach — but I think Meyer is a better coach and he’s proven it. My point is why do you and others care what Meyer does or says? Every man has flaws and why you are intent on pointing out his and encouraging sophomoric name calling is puzzling. I don’t like or dislike Meyer, but the guy is a winner – that is not debatable. It remains to be seen if he leaves OSU is a similar mess as Florida (if you call 2 titles a mess).
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The post had nothing – I repeat, nothing – to do with Mark Richt. So the question to ask isn’t why would a Georgia fan care. It’s why you feel the need to bring Richt up in the comment thread in the first place.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but I write about all kinds of subjects that have nothing to do with Georgia football.
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No it’s about not deflecting this original question.
Something Saban recently said that stuck with me. He said overachievers don’t like underachievers and underachievers don’t like overachievers.
I see which camp many folks on the site fall.
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Something my dad said to me once that stuck with me.
“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.”
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What you’re saying is that any fan of Georgia has no business criticizing Urban Meyer because he’s a better coach than Mark Richt. But that’s not deflection, right?
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Coaching is training or development in which a person called a “coach” supports a learner in achieving a specific personal or professional goal. The learner is sometimes called a “coachee”.
That is one definition.
This Bleacher Report definition is interesting .
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/410619-what-10-qualities-make-the-best-football-coach-and-who-has-them-now
Meyer took a OSU program whose previous coach left them in a complete mess and won a NC in 3 short years, and he did it this time with his third-string QB
Yours is another. And the part where you stated the previous coach left them in a complete mess kinda made chuckle. 😉
Bluto is right ya know. Now which school has a dick for a head coach. OSU or UGA? 😉
But winning is the only thing that matters? Hmmmm.
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Bullshit. You’d love Meyer if he was your coach. If Richt retired today and Meyer was named our HC, we’d have a title in 2-3 years. And if you’re happy with 9-10 wins with an occasional brush with 11 then good for you. Georgia’s program is capable of more.
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Thanks but I’ll pass.
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No maybe you would but I would not and I think most GA fans would feel like I do. Most FL fans want nothing to do with him and that speaks volumes.
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Universally, the only former coach they love is Spurrier and that’s because he’s a true gator. I know plenty of Gator fans and some love Meyer and some hate him because they became spoiled brats during his tenure.
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It will be interesting to see how long Urb lasts at OSU and if they go into the shitter when he leaves. I think the Florida players got a little spoiling too.
“Over the last two years he was there,”one former player said “the players had taken complete control of the team.”
Urban took OSU to a championship in 3 years. Took Florida to one in 2 and then spent his final 2 years burning Florida to the ground.
Character issues that we now know were fueled by a culture Meyer created. Character issues that gutted what was four years earlier the most powerful program in college football.
It was Meyer who declared the Florida program “broken” at the end of his last regular season game in Gainesville in November of 2010. But why was it broken?
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-04-09/urban-meyer-florida-ohio-state-ncaa-violation-recruiting-drugs-program-will-musc
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Yes Jax, we should all admire Corch and try to emulate him. What a guy is he. A shining example of integrity and molder of men.
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Hog the problem with Georgia is that we think we have the moral high ground when we really don’t. I’d like to hear your reaction to this debate a few minutes after we lost to Tech.
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You arguing in the wrong place. This post was about nothing but Corch. Save it for later.
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I can tell you what my reaction would be the second after we lost to Tech. If someone asked, “We just lost to Tech because of a dumb coaching decision, Wouldn’t you rather have Urban Meyer coaching us?” My answer then, as it is now, would have been, “F**K no!!”
Meyer is a great coach in the short term, but he has zero sustainability long term. He’d be the perfect coach for Auburn. They don’t care if their program is a dumpster fire for five years after a championship, as long as they get the championship. Once Meyer runs into a coach who can match him – and I suspect he may have in Harbaugh – he will “develop” personal or health issues, and leave the program in shambles.
Besides which, if Meyer coached here, we’d have to change the name of the team to the DoucheDawgs, and no one wants that.
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