This baby will make you roll your eyes.
Urban Meyer admitted that he made mistakes as coach at Florida in an interview with Andrea Kremer for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel…
“If I look back now, the biggest mistake I probably gave second chances to some people that maybe shouldn’t. But this is someone’s son. I know in my soul we’re doing it right, doing the best we can. Did we make mistakes? We make mistakes (raises hand).”
Oh, brother.
This is what passes for soul searching when you can’t credibly ignore the Aaron Hernandez story any longer. Not that the people cutting his paychecks really give a shit, anyway.
Get The Picture 
‘I know in my soul we’re doing it right, doing the best we can’?
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Nice try, pretty boy.
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The GPOE saved his bacon or those teams would have fallen apart from dissension and criminal energy vampires.
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Don’t forget Strong. Defense is what got them those mnc’s.
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It’s all about the kids. I care for them so much. Mistakes were made
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All he needed to add was “At this point, what does it really matter?”
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You got dat right
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Meyer could almost pass for a real human; his creators must be proud of themselves.
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My heart is warmed.
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I wonder how many people were on our coaching staff because we didn’t get Hernandez in Athens?
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Urban is such an inspiration for douchebags all around the world
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Pornstache and all…
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See? It’s douchebags like Meyer that make it hard for me to keep hating Spurrier. Spurrier is the smartass from high school that was funny when he was picking on other people. Meyer was, is, and will always be a smarmy DB.
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+1
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How is the time he’s spending with his family working out?
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“Coach, coach…they are saying I killed this guy, and maybe a couple-a other guys, there…I don’t know what to do, Coach…Ms. Shelley, what should I do?”
“Aaron, we told you to stay away from Connecticut…now, I don’t know what to say…Shelley, can you dish up some a that cold pizza for Aaron, there, babe?”
Meanwhile, in Athens, Ga, folks are whining and bitching and complaining that Georgia should have handled Todd Gurley by stonewalling the NCAA.
Seems to me you do the right thing and stand back for the flying chips.
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Agreed. Signing autographs is the same as killing a man. What’s wrong is wrong. Black and white. No gray. Life isn’t lived in the gray.
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Yawn.
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Agree Jock, though coming from Scorp it’s not a surprise.
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That you agree with a wrong point is also not a surprise… If you don’t understand the point, just say so, we’ll explain it to you.
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Sure, please explain how Aaron Hernandez killing someone belongs in the same sentence as Todd Gurley signing autographs. Make sure to include the actual damage to victims in each scenario as well.
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I am really sorry you don’t understand the obvious, that there is no correlation between murder and signing autographs except that they both break rules or laws.
In my dealings with you it has become obvious English must not be your first language, which causes you problems in comprehension.
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Lol. Your response was expected. Personal attacks merely prove your incompetence. You said you could explain it, so do it. I’m not the only one who interpreted your post in that manner.
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“Personal attacks merely prove your incompetence.”
“Agree Jock, though coming from Scorp it’s not a surprise.”
Your response is as expected. Read slowly, that might help.
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Jesus this is petty. For the third time, Scorp, explain what you meant. You offered to do so only to dodge it for two straight replies.
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Let me repeat what I said above, in response to your petty comment.
“I am really sorry you don’t understand the obvious, that there is no correlation between murder and signing autographs except that they both break rules or laws.”
Read slowly.
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Maybe I’m having reading comprehension problems, too, because that’s not a very convincing analogy for me.
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Ok, that is worth a response. Dickhead enabled misbehavior at Florida. Georgia does not enable misbehavior. Maybe….maybe…co-relating murder and signing autographs is a stretch. But is it a stretch to correlate enabling misbehavior at Florida to Aaron Hernandez current situation?
I am certainly not saying that signing autographs and being allowed to get away with it means murder is on the horizon, but can you say that institutionally enabling rule-breaking does anything positive for the rule-breaker?
Rules, to me, are the laws we will live by later.
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If your point is that Meyer’s standards for tolerating criminal conduct are far broader than Mark Richt’s are, you’ll get no argument from me.
But to see moral equivalence between violating criminal law and breaking the rule of a private association – a rule that itself has been judged a violation of federal law, by the way – is a real stretch. I understood your comment to be critical of us fans who find fault with how the Gurley situation went down and don’t see how that has anything to do with what Meyer tolerated at UF.
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I understand your point of view as a lawyer, Bluto, but to me there is no difference philosophically between breaking a rule and breaking a law…the difference in consequences is, however, obvious.
What I am saying is that Mark Richt’s tolerance for criminal behavior, and Georgia’s, serves the athlete better than does (did) Urban Meyer and Florida’s tolerance for criminal behavior.
What I am saying is that Mark Richt’s and Georgia’s intolerance for rule breaking serves the athlete better than does (did) Urban Meyer and Florida’s tolerance for rule-breaking.
We are into semantics pretty quickly here, but I guess there is no way to avoid that.
To lawyers, and others, rules are rules, laws are laws, but to me, at least they can be, philosophically, the same, have the same intent.
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You think Mark Richt and Georgia were behind the decision to sit TG for four games? If that’s the case, why even bother to lobby the NCAA in the first place?
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I don’t know where this response will wind up, so I’ll add a quote for clarification.
“You think Mark Richt and Georgia were behind the decision to sit TG for four games? If that’s the case, why even bother to lobby the NCAA in the first place?”
Huh? Not sure where that came from, but no, I don’t think Mark Richt, or Georgia or Greg McGarity or the ghost of Squab were behind the decision to sit Gurley for four games.
I do think the decision not to ignore the situation, to “stonewall” the NCAA was Georgia’s although I ain’t sure how the discussion stretched to that.
🙂
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It comes from “Mark Richt’s and Georgia’s intolerance for rule breaking”.
Georgia couldn’t stonewall because the autograph dealer went public.
Your argument in the context of Gurley reminds me much of this one. I wasn’t impressed with hers, either.
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I don’t even have to click the link, Bluto 🙂
I have to believe Mark Richt and Georgia are on that wall. That I need them on that wall.
Do I have any proof that would stand up in court that Aaron Hernandez committed murder because Dickhead enabled his misbehavior? Of course not, nobody does.
But there is no proof to the contrary either.
Surely you are not saying that teaching your children to obey Momma’s rules at the dinner table are not preparing them to abide by the law?
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*IS not preparing them.
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“I do think the decision not to ignore the situation, to “stonewall” the NCAA was Georgia’s although I ain’t sure how the discussion stretched to that.”
There was a TON of Todd Gurley autographed memorabilia on ebay. If you think nobody in our compliance department so much as googled the name of the best RB in the nation before the dealer came forward, well, I don’t know what to say. I have no proof one way or the other, but common sense says at least somebody at BM or in the AD had to have at least a passing knowledge.
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I gotta say, here, that I have never been a big fan of Dickhead. And I would never want to appear to be defending Dickhead, but really, how do you predict, in your wildest nightmares, that one of your kids is gonna be on trial for at least two murders.
So, Dickhead, what mistakes did you make? Should Aaron Hernandez have gone the way of several players at one of your SEC rivals…out the door? Is that one of your mistakes, there, Dickhead?
All I know for fucking sure is that I am damn glad Mark Richt is my football coach at the University of Georgia, and that Urban Meyer is NOT my football coach at the University of Georgia.
Cold pizza on the Quad at lunchtime, anyone?
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“Problems emerged at Florida, where according to the report Urban Meyer had daily bible readings with Hernandez, and assigned the Pouncey twins and Tim Tebow to be his minders. The story implied Meyer and the UF machine kept police off Hernandez’s back, even as he was questioned for punching a waiter and later, being involved in a shooting where the suspect’s description closely resembled Hernandez.”
http://deadspin.com/report-aaron-hernandez-was-a-gun-toting-pcp-addict-1214405203
I think Dickhead probably saw at least one of those murders coming, Mr. Jones, even with Jeebus’s son (the GPOOE) keeping an eye on AH for him. Daily bible readings, hmmm. Do you think Corch was trying an exorcism?
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That’s some piece of work from Deadspin and from Rolling Stone. Maybe if Hernandez had been made to follow the rules he would have had more respect for the law.
If playing football was as important to Hernandez as it seems to have been, maybe the loss of playing time, sitting down for games would have helped the kid focus.
Or maybe not, who knows?
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Corch. Missing teachable moments and riding Tiny Tears’ (the GPOOE) coattails since 2005. No wonder he crawled under the bed and assumed the fetal position when he realized the ride was over. What happens when ‘Dale declares?
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I always wonder how these men that are easily identifiable as pricks and possibly identifiable as psychopaths turn out to be the best recruiters.
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Because they’re excellent liars
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I always wonder how they turn out to be middle and upper management in corporate america.
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ohio is the Big Whatever’s Auburn, and has been most all of my adult life. Now they have a sleazeball at the helm, how can you ever trust what is tolerated and swept away in Columbus? Add in a fan group who is mouthy and supports the “doing whatever is necessary” routine Corch brings in and you might as well have them wearing the same unis, using the same fight songs, etc., and sharing legal expenses. Expect The Barn to start dotting “The U” in an attempt to keep pace.
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That article reinforces the worst suspicions about Meyer and Bill Belichek, not that I needed further convincing that they’re both bastards
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Are there 2 bigger jackasses than Spurrier and Irvin Meyers anywhere?
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Sheesh! Everyone needs a brownie this morning. Yall hold it down, will you? I’m trying to get some sleep what with two teenage grandkids who were here for a week. They are two blocks off the old chip, spoke slang like a new language, made smores the last night like a factory and pleased “Grandpa Bubber” to no end. The granddaughter stayed up excitedly talking to my wife and I until 0100 hrs so grandpa needed no meds to sleep. Yall just keep it to a dull fuss, will you?
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Look at both Urban and Lil Nickie, they both are classic Type A individuals that are consumed by their jobs. They would be successful at whatever they did. They have sacrificed their personal lives for the job. What I really don’t understand is how either one of them has a wife. They always say that behind every great man there is a women but damn these ladies have to be tough as nails. SOS love him or hate him is not consumed by his job (excepted as noted elsewhere UGA and Clemson) he at least has a hobby.
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I would submit to you that guys like Dickhead and Saban have wives because, as you pointed out, they are classic type A personalities who would succeed at whatever they did. There are opportunistic women just like there are opportunistic men and I suspect their wives knew a cash cow when they saw him. Plus neither Dickhead or Saban are ever home. The wives can enjoy the lifestyle the salaries provide and not be bothered with their husband’s abhor rant personalities.
Or to put it in a nutshell, they are with them for the same reasons Hillary is still with Bill despite all he has done to embarrass her.
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I’m a lot older than Todd Gurley and I’m still breaking rules
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