Urban says: Coach lies, Coach should be done

Submitted by Swayze Howell Sheen on

On ESPN (link here).

Money quote:

"If you intentionally lie about committing violations, your career is over," Meyer said during a call-in radio show on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus. "You're not suspended for two games (or) some of the silly penalties you have, you can't talk to a recruit for a week and a half or something like that. No. You're finished. That will clean up some things."

Hard to disagree. Wonder what ol' Sweatervest thinks of that?

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September 28th, 2017 at 9:41 PM ^

That's going to come back to haunt him as much as Pitino's statements. Half of the OSU team is on the payroll of local businesses they've never been to.

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Bando Calrissian

September 28th, 2017 at 9:42 PM ^

Or you can get booted, put out a resume in Comic Sans that talks about all the football games you won and the thousands of motivational books you sold, and manage to get hired as a university president. Good gig if you can get it.

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UM Fan from Sydney

September 28th, 2017 at 10:34 PM ^

That was such a scam. Dude was a coward. He knew his boy toy Timmy was gone and didn't want to rebuild. Fucking coward. I also feel he had some kind of inside knowledge that Tressel was going to retire from OSU and that was his opening to be their coach.

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MadMatt

September 29th, 2017 at 8:25 AM ^

Coach Meyer has talked about his struggles with mental health issues.  Taking a year off to get that right, the one thing about his Florida tenure that was completely praiseworthy, should not be rivalry grist.

Don't get me wrong, I think OSU under his leadership is the shadiest recruiting machine this side of the SEC.  I hate Ohio State with every fiber of my being, and I want to beat them regularly starting immediately, if not sooner.

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BlueRibbon

September 28th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^

For Urban to specify lying about recruiting as the fireable type of lying.

"If I am able to coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my back and go coach. I don't want to do that. I have too much love for this university and these players and for what we've built."

 

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MGoStretch

September 28th, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^

I bet Hugh is the most excited dude on the planet to see all of this FBI stuff coming out and take the heat off of him. 

I bet he's already placed a cal to Pitino. "Hey coach, it's me, Hugh. Yea, so I don't think you'll be needing all those hookers' phone numbers any longer, would you mind forwarding me their info? Ole Miss took my cell phone so I lost all my contacts."

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LSAClassOf2000

September 28th, 2017 at 11:15 PM ^

Now, now....you're asking Urban Meyer to make distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable lies and he never struck me as someone who was that textured except in his own inner thoughts. I will say, however, that I often wonder what would have become of Meyer had someone chose to make giving the interns the 50-cent tour of your privates a bigger issue. 

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BigBirdBlue

September 28th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^

A pic of Tressel. He was the 1st image that came to mind when I saw the espn article title about Meyer having an opinion about the basketball scandal. Fuck Urbs and fuck ohio. Go Blue!

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CarrIsMyHomeboy

September 29th, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^

People are going to mock him for this because they question his ethics**, but his point is strong. It'd be beneficial to the sport if the NCAA adopted this proposed legislation. I'm also happy to agree with him on political grounds, seeing as he just agreed to stand by Harbaugh (on the visiting locker room issue - another strong point), when he could have followed half the crowd and mocked Jim instead. **(about that, this may not be popular either, but I think that there's less room for questioning the ethics of his OSU tenure than his Florida tenure, based on a sizable disparity in felonies and weak punishments in Gainesville relative to Columbus. Maybe I'm wrong, but based on appearances, it seems he's much moreso doing things the right way now than he used to)

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Wolvie3758

September 29th, 2017 at 12:35 AM ^

is a MASTER at playing this game..He always says and does JUST ENOUGHT to look compliant..just look at his players arrest numbers at Florida AND Ohio St.   .His players arent there to get a education theyve admitted as much..Urban Meyer lecturing anyone on telling the truth is laughable

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Michiganguy19

September 29th, 2017 at 1:20 AM ^

A few facts don't make it plausible he could affect this. Modern reporting and information are drastically different than 10-12 years ago. No defending him beyond that but it's a tired run of logic... how were his head and arrest rates at Utah?

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ghostofhoke

September 29th, 2017 at 9:50 AM ^

It's kind of funny, on the radio yesterday one of the commentators actually decided to oppose these comments saying that it was too extreme. His point was that for the kid, he still gets to possibly go on and play, you might ruin his amateur status but not his career. He felt the same should be for the coach--HOWEVER--dumbass on the radio didn't take into account that these coaches could be going to jail. I'd say that would likely crush their career opportunities anyway. So it's pretty accurate assessment by Meyer.

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