Upcoming Rolling Stone Expose: "Urban Meyer may have helped cover up" Hernandez crimes, drug use
• In college his coach (then-University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer) may have helped cover up failed drug tests, along with two violent incidents — an assault and a drive-by shootout outside a local bar.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/five-revelations-from-rolling-…
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August 27th, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
Urban.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:54 PM ^
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle
There is not one single specific allegation, much less any credible proof, of any wrongdoing by Urban Meyer.
I challenge anybody to point it out if they think I am mistaken.
The article does a pretty good job of explaining that Hernandez was a bad kid before he got to Gainesville, and that he became a much worse person after he left and joined the NFL.
The article is long on descriptive speculation; and yet it is not terrible. It does paint a rather depressing picture of Hernandez. But the worst thing in all of this, it seems to me, is the absolutely unwarranted and illegitimate "use" of the Rolling Stone story is as some sort of charging document against Urban Meyer because on that dimension it is a complete failure.
August 28th, 2013 at 2:54 PM ^
I guess Rolling Stone thinks drug use should be limited to rock stars and not athletes.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
I definitely agree. The "Urban Meyer connection" is a red herring to generate more pageviews and incite the masses. It's a bit depressing to see people gloat over this just because the coach of our biggest rival was mentioned in a negative light.
August 27th, 2013 at 8:52 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 11:45 PM ^
You assume they know how to read....
August 28th, 2013 at 11:39 AM ^
They ain't come to read articles.
August 27th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 10:16 PM ^
BOOM FREE-PRESS'D
August 27th, 2013 at 8:53 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 10:19 PM ^
Gene Smith will still give him a raise.
Mark Emmert will take away one scholarship and some practice time, and move forward. . . But hey what do you expect with only one percent of the budget being allocated toward enforcement!
August 27th, 2013 at 8:54 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 10:04 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 10:36 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 11:20 PM ^
You know how many co-eds I've heart conditioned in my life?
August 28th, 2013 at 12:16 AM ^
August 28th, 2013 at 8:34 AM ^
Where do you get your tats?
August 27th, 2013 at 10:41 PM ^
Out of all of the garbage that gets posted on the board I love that the only thing people lose their shit over is people trying to make jokes by manipulating names.
August 27th, 2013 at 10:53 PM ^
Your standards are way too high.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:28 AM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 8:56 PM ^
this should be good
August 27th, 2013 at 8:57 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
It's all good in Cbus:
"..everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever.."
August 27th, 2013 at 8:57 PM ^
I just hope Urban doesn't fire me.
Signed, Gordon Gee
August 27th, 2013 at 8:57 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
Why would any parent entrust their kid with Urban Meyer?
August 27th, 2013 at 9:11 PM ^
Yeah seriously. Taking care of Urban Meyer has to be an absolute handful.
August 28th, 2013 at 5:05 AM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 11:46 PM ^
A lot of football recruits come from backgrounds where there wasn't much parenting, which is clearly the case with Hernandez. I'm obviously not justifying anything, but it's important to understand that a lot of guys playing FBS football come from difficult circumstances.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:44 AM ^
August 28th, 2013 at 9:39 AM ^
Isn't it obvious...because he keeps them out of jail and is a genius at covering things up. It's when they leave the tender care of Urban that it becomes a problem. This is all on the police taking crimes too seriously.
August 27th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
probably getting really stressed out again
August 27th, 2013 at 8:59 PM ^
you play to win the game
August 27th, 2013 at 9:01 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 9:34 PM ^
Why all the cheap-shots against Rolling Stone? Of course they have a bias--all news sources are biased. At least they cover important stuff--like Wall Street scandals, political corruption, the looming student loan bubble, and, uh, Aaron Hernandez.
August 27th, 2013 at 9:55 PM ^
August 27th, 2013 at 10:45 PM ^
but the guy did what he did and Rolling Stone had an original in-depth article about the guy. Ye, they did it for money, but Brian and MGo work for free, correct?
August 27th, 2013 at 11:36 PM ^
August 28th, 2013 at 12:31 PM ^
So you also have an issue with basically any newpaper that shows pictures of dead people or horrific crimes occurring in other countries? RS provided a unique story about a notable person in the news, so they put him on the cover. You can argue taste and if they should have selected another cover photo, but it wasn't like they didn't have a good reason to do so.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:39 PM ^
Not any journalist integrity. You bury the lede when about selecting another cover photo. Instead of one they picked (and somehow got) that makes him look like he's more fit for the cover of Teen Beat magazine rather than Time.
August 28th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^
Nothing Rolling Stone did was going to change what happened. Maybe it was ill timed but they aren't the first to look into what killers/terrorists think. People get way too amped up over things that mean very little in the grand scheme of things....
August 27th, 2013 at 9:56 PM ^
August 28th, 2013 at 12:54 AM ^
Wait - is the part about the ER for real? If so, that's the best bit of info on this whole thread. Would be incredible.
August 28th, 2013 at 7:50 AM ^
Wow. I wonder if they'd do the same if a cigarette manufacturer donated ten million dollars.
August 28th, 2013 at 10:01 AM ^
I just, I don't know what to say about this:
Abercrombie & Fitch Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
It's like something from a Pynchon novel only not a satire.
August 28th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
This spells disaster for Columbus's fatty population: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/abercrombie-reputation-ceo-comments_n_3288836.html
August 28th, 2013 at 12:32 PM ^
That is amazing.