In the meantime they're all set to build a statue of Meyer in Ohio
before he's coached a game. We'll see how that works out for them.
Charlie
On 8/13/2012 2:35 PM, Randy Lyons wrote:
Me, too.
Randy
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Gator Legend Shane Matthews Blasts Urban Meyer's Coaching,
Recruiting
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/By Chadd Scott/
Legendary Florida quarterback Shane Matthews recently joined Dan
Hicken as a guest on 1010XL radio in Jacksonville. Matthews is
coaching at Nease High School in the the Jacksonville area. As
their conversation turned to the Gators' upcoming season, Matthews
pulled no punches in placing a majority of the blame for the
team's struggles last year - and expected struggles this season -
at the feet of Urban Meyer.
Matthews has had well-publicized run-ins with the former Florida
coach over the years, most notably when
Meyer publicly chastised Matthews, who at the time was a talk show
host in Gainesville, for making comments critical of the Gators
<http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2009/04/is-tim-tebows-coach-urban-meyer-trying-to-blackball-gator-legend-shane-matthews.html>.
With Meyer now in Columbus, OH it's unlikely he'll respond to
these comments:
"(Muschamp) was dealt a bad deck of cards, I don't think people
realize how bad that situation is and was," Matthews told Hicken.
This comment strikes a familiar chord about the end of Meyer's
tenure in Gainesville. The Sporting News published a dramatic
account of how a lack of discipline and character corroded the
team concept at Florida
<http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-04-09/urban-meyer-florida-ohio-state-ncaa-violation-recruiting-drugs-program-will-musc>
in Meyer's final seasons contributing to the program's quick fall
from college football's pinnacle. Meyer's lack of discipline at
Florida drew my own ire
<http://dev.chuckoliver.net/2010/10/chuckoliver-net-original-meyers-despicable-decision/>.
My "pathetic excuse for a man"
<http://dev.chuckoliver.net/2010/10/urban-meyer-a-pathetic-excuse-for-a-man/>
column remains as fiery as I've ever been.
Matthews believes poor talent evaluation and development are at
the heart of the Gators' problems. "We ain't put anybody in the
league the last couple years so that shows you how we were
recruiting...they missed big time...we had a track team... track
teams don't play on Sunday...you can be able to run like a track
team, but you better be able to play football."
Urban Meyer often said he wanted the fastest team in college
football, Matthews obviously thinks he took that emphasis too far.
Matthews, who is a major supporter of new coach Will Muschamp,
added, ""They're (Florida's new staff) recruiting football players
now." Matthews' praise of Muschamp and his staff continued, "This
coaching staff at Florida is the best we've had at that school -
hands down. It's gonna take time because we just don't have the
athletes that the other big boys in the conference do."
As Florida's slide from college football's mountaintop began
almost two years ago, my colleagues Chuck Oliver and Ingram Smith
were among the first to highlight the "brain drain" on Urban
Meyer's staff
<http://dev.chuckoliver.net/2010/10/the-key-to-success-in-gainesville-it%E2%80%99s-not-in-gainesville-anymore/>.
Losing top assistants Dan Mullen and Charlie Strong
<http://dev.chuckoliver.net/2010/10/8460/> left the Gators short
on experienced coordinators, discipline and leadership.
As Matthews' continued to discuss the Gators' troubles, he made no
attempt to sugar-coat his dissatisfaction with the previous
regime. "I think we'll be much better in the next few years with
Brent Pease calling plays. He's creative. Nothing against
Charlie Weis. Our QBs the last few years have not been coached.
There's no other way to put it they have not been coached."
Matthews continued, "When Brantley stepped in he had nobody
(playmakers) around him. There's not a whole lot of guys who you
can say "'I can rely on this guy to run a good route and get open.'"
Gator fans hoping for a brighter tomorrow with Muschamp should
take heart from this final quote from Matthews which I'll leave
you with. When discussing Muschamp he said, "I love him. I
played for Nick Saban...(Muschamp) is a combination of a little
bit of Spurrier and a lot of Nick Saban."
Not a bad combo.
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