Herban Meyer will no doubt be ridiculed for his decision to let his players play the game, great men often are, but true fans recognize the service he has given to the the game of football, the University of Florida and his Gator Football Team. We could all learn from Meyer’s shining examples and show our appreciation and love for the Gator Nation. So the next time you run into a Gator player in a bar, whorehouse or crack den, make sure that you buy him a drink or a joint or assault rifle or heck why not him all 3? Just tell that Gator player not to worry about that drive home, Coach has him covered.
Sports Illustrated’s Stuart Mandell dares to challenge the success of Herban Meyer’s discipline program [SI]. As with any true natural leader, Meyer quickly attributes the success of his highly successful program to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The Florida coach said … that he called Goodell earlier this summer to personally thank him for instituting his hard-line stance against player misbehavior.
It is hard to say who had a tougher summer. Goodell had deal with Pac Man Jones, Chris Henry and Michael Vick. Herban had his own set of problem:. Criticism of Meyer’s program has been largely muted amidst the adulation surrounding last year’s title season and February’s top-rated recruiting class, but some critics have alleged hypocrisy on the part of Meyer, who, upon his December 2004 hiring, pledged a hard-line approach to discipline. Fortunately for Meyer, the State Attorney in Gainesville is a Florida grad so things turned out for the best for the Gators. [Gator Arrests]
At the SEC Media Days, a reporter (A Gator fan poured urine on the reporter later) recklessly asked Meyer, “whether his experiences with Avery Atkins (who died last month) have “changed you or the way you run your program,” the coach appeared to freeze behind the podium. Most Gators are trying to distance the Atkins death away from the program, but it is the first time that it has been asked. Could Florida have done more?
Most Gator fans like the Board Moderator at SECTalk.com, GatorHunter, prefer to distance themselves away from Atkins with comments like this, “Yea…I love how the Gators get “credit” for what happened to Avery Atkins…..he was thrown off the team, yet, the Gators are credited with “crack possession”..One word immediately comes to mind….Classy!!
Wow, the Gator Nation is lucky. You really see the gem you got in Coach Meyer. What with all that pressure at UF and all…..having to make the right decision or even a moral decision is just too much. Since he only recruits the top 1% of 1%, the Percy Harvins and Chris Raineys, there shouldn’t be any worries as the troublesome Zook recruits leave. Thank God, you have Herban to make the decision he made–right or not. Moral or not. I mean, if it gets you a championship then screw morals, right? We win! And the players learn to live the right way. Wait, um, the players learn to live like nobody can touch them.
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