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History behind Urban Meyer's "Press Conference"

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February 11th, 2012 at 5:55 PM
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El Demonio
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History behind Urban Meyer's "Press Conference"

This afternoon, as our children were playing in a park, I brought up to my cousin the story about Urban Meyer's recent press conference in which he plans to refer to Michigan as "That Team Up North".  My cousin is a journalist, formerly a full-fledged sports journalist, and he currently writes for a major South Florida paper.  He is a UFlorida graduate, and he actually broke the Urban Meyer Utah-to-Florida story for the Palm Beach Post.  There is some discussion whether it was them or the Florida Times-Union who broke the story first.  Nevertheless, he was able to break the story because he had become close to the Meyer family during the preceding month of his arrival at Florida, often dining with them in their home.  He broke the story because Urban Meyer's wife called my cousin directly to tell him.

My cousin, as someone who sees Meyer as a liar (b/c he was also intimately involved in the media coverage during his tenure at Florida), says that the name change of a rival is a common theme for Meyer.  He says that Meyer did it at Bowling Green, at Utah, and then again at Florida.  Apparently Meyer chose FSU as the rival-du-jour, and just designated them with just a crimson bar on their schedule.  So he sees this as Meyer stirring the pot of a rivalry, which he says is his MO.  However, he doesn't believe he called a press conference at any of his other stops.  Also, he thinks (as most of us do) that Meyer saw the writing on the wall with Saban/Alabama dominating the next several years of the SEC and bolted.

I just thought this information, from someone who closely followed Meyer since his leaving Utah, would be interesting to the Board.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:00 PM
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You can...

have your cousin call Meyer's wife and say "FUCK YOU".

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:01 PM
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Kid Rock?

Is that you, Bob?

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:02 PM
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Any news on the co-op front?

As a Saturday without much sport to watch, I like to hear first or second stories on this topic.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:08 PM
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meh.

Could care less about Meyer.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:10 PM
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COULD care less, or COULDN'T

COULD care less, or COULDN'T care less?

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:35 PM
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Interesting

Maybe he really did mean "could care less."  He cared enough to embed his cute little graphic.

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:02 PM
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hmmmmm...

Jeebus linguists.

I could care less ( it is theoretically possible) about Urban Meyer.

I cared just enough to embed the "cute little graphic".

 

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:25 PM
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Just giving you shit...the

Just giving you shit...the could/couldn't care less meme is a rather old inside joke/pet peeve around here :-P

BTW: love the chart, around my area (Fremontish, OH) Meh has morphed into Mer.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:09 PM
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I can confirm this as far as

I can confirm this as far as BG goes, Toledo is BG's big rival (Battle of I-75/Peace Pipe Trophy) he would never say "Toledo" and I'm pretty sure the schedule in the locker room where UT's logo was supposed to be, was just a rocket rather than their usual rocket logo with "Toledo" arched underneath. We thought it to be rather JVish, but then again, so is he.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:24 PM
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So

utterly. So lame. In fact, in trying to demonstrate that he gets it, he proves the opposite. Because this rich rivalry, with all its complex lore, does not require or want empty gestures like his. Intellectually, morally, this guy is not up to much.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:27 PM
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Your bias is showing

How is this any different than Hoke calling them "That School Down South," or even "Ohio?"

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:25 PM
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Hoke is from Ohio, his dad

Hoke is from Ohio, his dad played for Woody Hayes and that's what he and his generation grew up calling Ohio State. It's like calling Berkeley Cal or Connecticut UConn. I don't recall seeing TSUN on our scoreboard, spelled out by our band before every game or YMCAed by alumni on top of a mountain.

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:34 PM
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You, sir, are correct. Coach

You, sir, are correct. Coach Hoke calling tOSU Ohio is simply old school, not a slight as many tOSU fans who obviously no nothing of their past. I've seen pictures of championship rings from back in the day that simply say Ohio on them rather than the school's proper name. I, personally think its quite laughable that many Ohio fans are as perturbed as they are about being called Ohio rather than tOSU.

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February 11th, 2012 at 9:59 PM
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These things make me sad.

These things make me sad.

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February 11th, 2012 at 10:01 PM
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I find it annoying and sad

I find it annoying and sad that most Ohio State fans don't know where script Ohio came from. When they find out, they are usually very skeptical and then not very pleased.

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February 12th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
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Calling a press conference

to announce this? Tomfool-ness. Football is often full of lame, but turning it into WWE wrestling? Enough, already. 

Granted, most of America lives in a cartoon world and can't tell the difference, but we should be able to. 

 

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:46 PM
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I almost agree

It is lame, but only because Woody did it over forty years ago, and it really shouldn't be news.  A lot of Ohioans never really stopped calling Michigan "that school up north," so this should really be a non-story to the media.  

It's a quaint element of a great rivalry, but Urban Meyer isn't exactly inventing the wheel here.

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:10 PM
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I'm

I am tired of reading about Urban Meyer. Take this to an OSU blog. 

 
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February 11th, 2012 at 6:16 PM
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He has some quirky attitude

He has some quirky attitude towards a rival school?

who cares

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:23 PM
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Thanks.  That was a really

Thanks.  That was a really interesting post, since your cousin knows him so well.  Please disregard the people who don't care about hearing Meyer related content, but still decided to click on this post.  I would be interested to hear more about Meyer and how he operates from the perspective of someone that closely covered his time at Florida.

 

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February 11th, 2012 at 6:34 PM
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I don't understand it either...

Inidividuals that just want to put their two cents in about a topic they aren't interested in.  Well then don't read it.  I clearly designated what the thread was about. 

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:06 PM
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My money is on

My money is on Dantonio......too soon?

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:20 PM
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Too Late?

No, I think you are too late.  Isn't this race over?

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:06 PM
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Cool insight into Urban's

Cool insight into Urban's "Hey everyone look at me!" presser.  I'm glad Hoke gets attention by doing and accomplishing instead of looking for it...

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February 11th, 2012 at 10:18 PM
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What presser is everyone

What presser is everyone talking about?  He never had a presser about any of this, or made any type of announcement about this.

I think the confusion stems from a Michigan radio show saying they were giving a story at 4:30pm on Meyer's treatment of Michigan's name -- and then that somehow got translated into Meyer holding a presser at 4:30pm.

As an OSU fan, I couldn't care less what Meyer chooses to call Michigan (just like I don't care what Hoke calls OSU) -- but I like that both coaches recognize the importance of the rivalry and signify that importance in any way they deem fit.  RichRod and Cooper can fuck off. 

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:18 PM
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Being in SW Florida

Many HS coaches advised their players to pass on the Meyer visits and go to some other SEC schools, as he was losing good players to Alabama, LSU and others he had to leave.

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February 11th, 2012 at 8:17 PM
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Meyer is just pandering to

Meyer is just pandering to the home crowd.  If he was the Michigan coach, he would come up with a pajorative term for Ohio State.

Hoke on the other hand, is authentic.  He refused to wear red - Ohio State's color - when he was at Ball State and SDSU, both schools with red as a main color!  He did this when he had no idea that he would ever coach at Michigan.  THAT'S authentic.

Meyer is just playing the crowd.  Cynically, in my book.  He has no real hate for Michigan.  We were one of the three schools he had in his contract the he could leave for without penalty, fergodsakes.

 

 

 

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February 12th, 2012 at 12:06 AM
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Hoke on the other hand, is

Hoke on the other hand, is authentic.

Amen to that.  The difference between Hoke and Meyer is actually pretty stark.  My sense is Hoke's authenticity will appeal to a pretty broad base of recruits.  Meyer's schtick is paper thin ... it's good only as long as he wins.  A bad season or two and he'll have no reserves to draw from.

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February 12th, 2012 at 6:42 PM
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TBH I think Meyer's National

TBH I think Meyer's National Championships will probably be a bigger draw for people than Hoke's authenticity. Some kids just want to play for a hard core no nonsense person that has a known great track record regardless of how the rest of his personality is.  As long as they know they have a chance to get to the NFL, they're good with whomever.

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:38 PM
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cool story bro

Yea

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February 11th, 2012 at 7:58 PM
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Meyer didn't hold a presser...

He talked about his Michigan stance in a radio interview in Ohio. I don't know how this board allowed this inaccurate report of a press conference to continue. You call people out for double posting stuff fergodsakes...c'mon men!!!

(Maybe the quotations around press conference shows you know it wasn't one, either way, just wanted to clear that up.)


http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2012/02/09/ohio-state-head-coach-urban-meyer-joins-bull-fox/

As always, Go Blue, Beat State!!

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February 11th, 2012 at 9:25 PM
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Meyer could have slighted us

Meyer could have slighted us by calling us just 'Michigan' as opposed to THE university of Michigan. That would surely stick it to coach Hoke and TUOM faithful. Just imagine...

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February 12th, 2012 at 3:05 PM
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I don't think he actually

I don't think he actually called a press conference for this. 

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