These Comments Really Draw My Meyer

This site will apparently house the Florida Coaching Staff in 2009

Wow, and I thought that Lane Kiffin was the biggest fool in the SEC this offseason. Kiffin first falsely accused Florida of breaking recruiting rules only to find out that the rule he referenced didn't exist, then admitted to his own recruiting infractions not once but twice, then insulted the entire state of South Carolina, and is now banned from Pahokee High School in Florida. He's a fool.

But . . .

You have to look at the latest comments by Urban Meyer to a Gator booster club meeting this week. That's right, if you now even dare to criticize either Urban Meyer or the people he (I assume literally) employs, you are a traitor. Urban Meyer and the Florida Gators are now infallible. To question them is to commit treason, and will earn you a lifetime banishment from the Swamp. And not just for any alumni-- former Florida players are included on this list. Shane Matthews is reportedly on the verge of being banned for hosting a radio show and saying that Florida played poorly in a loss to Mississippi. MISSISSIPPI! They did play like crap!

We have now gone to the next level in college coach ego. While I understand that this is in part an example of the media being really bored in the offseason and making mountains out of molehills, on the other hand plenty of other coaches have caught flack for similar comments recently (like Lane Kiffin this past February), so Meyer had to know this would get national play. How self-righteous are you if you tell a group of alumni from your school "If you criticize me, I will banish you from campus." First, who does Meyer think pays his $3.5 mil plus contract each year, Florida tax payers? No, alumni donations. Good decision to threaten them. Second, of all the people you want on your side, isn't it former players? Isn't one of the great things about college that as an alum you are always welcome back? And don't fans go nuts whenever they see old players return to campus and walk onto the field at halftime? It's what separates college sports from the pros-- like ESPNU says (shameless plug, check's in the mail right, Berman?) you never graduate!

I've always thought Urban Meyer was a doucher, but this takes it to a whole new level.