Urban Meyer regrets the way his Florida tenure ended, said Alabama should have lost three games
Meyer regrets the way his Florida tenure ended
“I didn’t at first. I thought we did a good job. We did our best. I look back now, the way it ended was certainly a regret. Does that mean it haunts me? Not at all. I’ve always felt our job is to do a good job and do it the right way, do it ethically and for the best interest of the student-athlete — check, check, check. I’ll always be associated with the school, and my great friends are there and all that. Absolutely none with that. It just wasn’t a normal way to move on. There would have been if I would have stayed out. I was worried about survival for a little bit.”
Meyer said there’s no question he’d still be at Florida if the health issues hadn’t surfaced
“I realized not too long after [around February 2011]. I called Jeremy [Foley] and said, ‘I made a mistake.’ Once I felt like everything was under control, it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what did I do?’ I just told Jeremy as a friend in conversation. The talk was more about one day getting back into it. He was very supportive. Then I started at ESPN and had a ball with that, but is that enough? Is that what I was called to do? I planned to take more than a year [off] though.”
Meyer said Alabama should have lost three games in 2012.
“You look at [2012], [Alabama] should have lost three games. Georgia had them beat. LSU, I watched that one, it was over. Obviously they ended up beating them. I thought they’d be really good. I think there are some really good teams in the conference.”
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2013/urban-meyer-left-florida/
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we should have beaten them last season... Just the ineffeciency on offense down the stretch... Really have to close out games better this season.
It was completely bizarre if nothing else.
Said he was leaving for health reasons, came back, said he was leaving for family reasons, took a job with ESPN (traveling all season long and not being with his family), then took the job at OSU.
I don't think I've seen anything like that. Just the scrambling for an excuse, publicly, to gtfo.
makes me wonder how many OSU should have lost. Jusy saying, I think UM was run out of that conference by Nick Saban's success and his ability to neutralize the spread offense UM used against lesser talented teams. You must recall the spread was a means of neutralizing teams with significant amount more talent and basically keep their offense on the sidelines. Meyer did not have the problem of lesser talent at FL. However, Nick proved to be a better coach than UM and I think his vanity took a major hit. Nice to throw shit on the wall once it's been painted. You may spot it somewhat but it's difficult to get rid of the new color entirely.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/5/28/4373224/nick-saban-ohio-state-sec
"Saban may have used Ohio State by name, but his statement really applies to every non-SEC contender. "They don't play as tough a schedule as us." It's true, but he's blowing things out of proportion. Due to conference divisions, no team in the SEC has to play every other top team. It makes for a good sound byte, though, and it serves his program's purposes to further reinforce just how much more difficult the SEC is. The media listens when he speaks, and he knows it.
People revere/fear Saban as a no-nonsense cyborg who only cares about making his team better. It's The Process. He doesn't have time for this s***. It would seem, though, he does appear to have time to play politics with the media.