EDIT. STRIKE. REVISE. REPUBLISH.

WOO HOO!!!

Wait….this means Addazio is the head coach for now?

FUCK

Isn’t this all about recruits?

2010 Sugar Bowl-‘The Battle for a Permanent Coaching Job’

BJ gave him a puff of the Cheebah and he’s cured!.. He’s laughing, he’s eating, and he can now mellow out.

Brett Favre has expressed interest in the UF job, as soon as he retires.

@2: What 5-star hotshot doesn’t dream of playing for Steve Addazio?

We apologise for the fault in the the resignation of Urban Meyer. Those responsible have been sacked.

just remembered this article
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/sec/2007-08-14-Floridacoaches_N.htm

No, no, come on to Florida. Urban will be right back, we promise. He is just resting so he can come back and coach you even better.

South Pittsburgh? Just drive over to the Lodge outlet, by yourself a big cast-iron skillet and smack yourself in the head with it for a while. You’ll feel better.

This is a most impressive display of regime destabilization by the Kiffins.

Jedi Master Monte just used an old mind trick on Urban to blow up UF’s fan base and recruiting.

I’m worried now that Georgia will hire some sort of Tennessee plant as a defensive coordinator.

Wait…maybe MARTINEZ WAS THE PLANT! DAMN!

He was sick, but St. Timothy of Tebow must have laid his hands on home and healed him…

He was sick, but St. Timothy of Tebow must have laid his hands on home and healed him…

Fake out!

Mullen and Strong are coming back too, just wait.

Early menopause is nothing to laugh about.

It’s like Meyer just came off a three-day Christmas bender.

I said WHAT?!?!

This is wimpy BS. Deciding to resign or even take a leave is one thing; working through one’s emotions in public is a poor example, poor leadership, and unfair to all involved. How damn disappointing.

So I guess Brian was lucky that he wrote his most poignant piece (Eleven Swans before the 2006 UM/OSU game) about someone who could not change his mind.

So, he only knows how to coach one way, the way that sent him to the hospital on more than one occasion.

And, NOW, he will coach less, or spend less time working, with no Mullen and no Strong, not to mention no RC, Gonzalez.

Yeah, the above makes sense.

Garner, Saban’s stable, Kiffen’s stable, etc etc etc need to be smelling blood and pillage Florida’s recruiting class.

Heck, we might even steal someone from Florida. Nah, probably not.

@14: Hilarious and I was thinking the same thing.

Can we all imagine Ron Prince’s disappointment right now? He’s at Kinko’s right now copying his resume.

I actually feel bad for Florida. Nothing about this situation is good —at least for the near future. Meyer went from sounding admirable and thoughtful for his family to selfish and oblivious to the consequences of his actions.

Steve Adazzio, meet Pete Gaudet. The Coach K comparisons are pretty apt.

That press conference – wow. At least they didn’t make Butch Davis do a presser after he had his nervous breakdown. Poor Urban was out of it, and his evasiveness regarding his “health” (read: mental health) issues was telling. What a disaster for the Gator Nation.

So this was all just a really elaborate way of telling everyone that he is … taking a vacation?

CincySooner @ 14 – I think you’re right. Who hasn’t had a hangover that almost killed them?

Also, who, exactly, decided that Bob Stoops is now a serious candidate for every major coaching job in college? Strange.

Urban treats his health first, and your emotions second.

This was all a ploy by Urban to get Kiffen to lay off him. Now if Kiffen jumps on him again, it will look real bad on Kiffie. Unlike Saban, who answered Kiffin silently by getting the verbal from the best player out of Memphis in the upcoming signing class. This happened the very day after Kiffie took a swipe at Saban and Lance Thompson claimed Saban would not get any players drom their territory and was gonna build a fence around Memphis. Kiffie learned his lesson with Saban real quick, better to laud Lord Saban and try to lull him to sleep than throw rocks at the beast. His approach with both Saban and Meyer almost worked for him this season. After Meyer made his health issues public, now Kiffin will look like the ultimate douchebag if he continues his public verbal sparring with Meyer. Saban probably told Meyer, “I am sorry my son, you are unable to take the same approach as me to shut up the Kiffikins, you must find another angle, here is how you do this.” Then Saban started handpicking the recruits on UF’s verbal list he wants. Hey, it works out for all parties involved. Even Kiffie will get a couple of the thugs from UF’s upcoming signing class, who will eventually hold up a church during collection, with water pistols filled with Courvoisier.

After spending a day with the wife and kids, he quickly came to his senses and
UNRETIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AT home, the wife tells him what to do and when even when there is no prior cleaning.

Charlie @24,

Or vice versa.

@24: +1

Urban Meyer, college football’s Balloon Boy.

“The New York Times reports that offensive coordinator STEVE ADAZZIO will be the interim coach while Meyer deals with his health issues”.

See? See? HE IS HIS HEIR.

And here we thought it was Tebow who could raise from the dead.

Change of heart…well played boys, well played

It’s not like Urby had any credibility to lose anyway. who does the U of Florida think they are? Notre Dame?

@23, Sorry, Meyer doesn’t take advice from guys who lose to ULM.

Or, in other words, REDACTED.

You gotta make his ass quit.

Hey bamamachine, I expect Bama to win the national championship because they were the superior team in the superior football conference in the land. But a small piece of me wants Texas to kick that ass…to shut up all the douchebag fans, if only for a couple of days.

Urban Meyer realized he wanted to be the first coach to die on the sidelines.

@34-

If Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes could survive numerous heart attacks and remain standing killing everything in sight with their ruthless football machines of death, I highly doubt Urban will die on the sidelines. And let’s not forget Scary Jo Pa

Brian @ 34

And, in so doing, he will once again claim victory over Bobby Bowden, who failed in that endeavor.

Even I feel jerked around by this drama queen, and I don’t give Shit One about Florida’s program.

@34— Let us not forget the late, great Dennis Erickson. Hasn’t been heard from since he went down in 2005 and took the 49ers with him.

I would say that this will hurt recruiting, but then again if someone wants to go to a football school in the state of Florida, the Gators could hire Jim Zorn and things would just fall into place. The Noles and Canes don’t have a flux capacitor.

@31 – after December 5th, perhaps he should. Conversely, perhaps Saban will learn from Urbs and schedule Charleston Southern or the Citadel.

So here’s what’s going to happen.

1. The Gators have a semi-legitimate non-conference game with USF in early September.
2. Through some amazing combination of Addazio’s incompetence and the Bulls’ annual tradition of peaking in the third game of the season, USF will pull off the upset.
3. FULL-ON ADDAZIO SHITSTORM GOES HERE
4. Urban decides it’s time to end his vacation, Addazio is run out of town on a rail, Gators return to kicking ass.

That’s my hometown, get some fireworks in addition to a cast iron skillet, and that’s South Pittsburg, not South Pittsburgh.

@33

It is called “Tongue in cheek” humor. I do not trash talk much but I do try and find humor where I can. This is not a serious blog, I thought most of you would have noticed this by now. I hope we win but by no means do I consider it a layup. I go other places for serious discussion, here we post the ridiculous, inane and hyperbolize.

1. - maybe Urban will take some advice from a coach who had similar panic attack issues and get a job at a basketball school like Butch did.

@ 41- i lmao (past tense) over "who will eventually hold up a church during collection, with water pistols filled with Courvoisier.
:)

This is obvious people.

(option 1) UF realized it mis-managed the situation. Urban, “restated” the situation, now they can look for a new coach “under cover” while Meyer continues to recruit, so as not to lose your recruits.

(option 2) Either that or Urban is the biggest drama queen in college football and since he got the smack down from Saban, is now doing everything he can to get attention.

I’m leaning towards option 1 at this time, although Urbie’s consistent ability speaking out of both sides of his mouth makes everything suspect.

(option 3) Urban actually did succumb to the stress of being the highest profile head coach in college football and decided to resign. The UF athletic department shit itself at the prospects of hiring a head coach and talked him into just taking some time off so that he doesn’t go into cardiac arrest midway through the first game of next season.

I almost left graduate school and my department pretty much insisted that I instead take a leave of absence just to be sure leaving is what I wanted to do. I can imagine that Urban Meyer is slightly more important for the Florida athletic program than I am to my graduate program.

TGGal, thx, that is what I was shooting for, some humor. Actually more of the humor was directed at UT rather than UF. I have to give my Vol brethren a hard time, I live too close to the Tennessee line. We have a few Vols on our side of the line.

hah clemson players were all yelling ACC ACC ACC at the SEC fans with about 1 min to go in the game LOLZ

@41

Jesus, I’m just stunned that an Alabama fan knows the meaning of the word hyperbole…

@46

We are a surprisingly intelligent bunch…nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah

Can we just ignore bamachine and agree that Urban should switch from Lithium to Prozac?

P.S.

bamachine – As a Bama fan, can I recommend Tiderinsider.com or bamaonline.com?

please? PLEASE?

@48

Please do not ignore me…all of my self-esteem is tied up in reactions I receive upon the internets

Some excessively mature senior captain needs to hit his coach in the head with a clue-by-four. Priorities, they are fucked.

What the fuck.

Yeah, there’s pretty much no chance this won’t turn into a giant clusterfuck by spring practice.

In less than a month, Florida State has become the more stable football office. Wow.

Do we still get to hire Brian Kelly, anyway? Notre Dame is getting off wayyy too easy here. He can be the interim head coach in 2010, then pick up a non-career-destroying-job at a place like Michigan in time for 2011.

And Addazzio gets to go to South Bend and pick up right where Weis left off. Woo!

Did you stop by the Lodge outlet store in South Pittsburg? Did you at least stop at one of the two giant fireworks stores?

I, for one, believe that Urban has earned the right to decide when he leaves the Florida football program.

The only thing Urbie does worse than “retire” is discipline his players.

You know Ron Prince wouldn’t pull this kind of shit!

@52 It always amazes me at how fast the worm turns in college football. One season you have 13 All-Americans on your team, have the coach of the year on your sidelines, recruiting is going great, the fan base is motivated, playing with regularity in the top 5

…the next season, you are an also-ran who’s coach just left for whatever reason, your All-Americans are inellegible or left for the NFL, your recruits don’t produce due to lack of coaching.

Seen it everywhere, regardless of conference or team pedigree. It’s absolutely amazing.

Day-um Pussy still hasn’t beat Auburn…

Just curious…

Which is the lie…

1. He isnt sick, never was.

2. He really doesnt care about his family or his health. Coaching is more important than any of that shit.

For all the flak Urban has been getting, what people are missing here is someone who has excelled at every facet of his career to reach the very top of his profession is showing us all just how difficult it is to balance the near complete sacrifice nearly everything to a career and the very real human need for a stable home life.

Most of us will never have such a profession. About the closest I have ever seen personally was as a US Army company commander of about 200 troops. You simply cannot do such a job well without 16-hour days and a complete subjugation of everything you know as ‘self’. The toll on families and your own health is incredible. Long term sleep deprivation is only the first brick in the path.

SEC rivalries aside, here’s to Urban being able to have his health, his family and still continue to coach. He’s a fundamental part of this current ‘Golden Age’ of SEC football that we’re all enjoying.

War Eagle!

Sullivan013

P.S. How JoePa has managed to do this at age 83 in his SIXTYETH year of active coaching (let that sink in for a minute) is a freaking miracle.

@70 Imagine being the coach in waiting behind Paterno…

I don’t wanta sound like I’m hopin Urban Meyer has a Heart Attack,
But I hope Urban Meyer has a Heart Attack, preferably at the instant whoever’s kicking for Auburn in 2011 kicks the game winning field goal, and have you ever BEEN to East Alabama Medical Center? Not exactly the Mayo Clinic
And I hope Kiffin gets Alzheimers so he lets the clock run out before kicing the game winning field goal, hey it worked for les Miles.
Thats what SEC football is all about, hating your enemies, using their warm slippery guts to grease the treads of your tanks.
FAMILY? thats for losers. Who’s even SEEN Nick Satan’s family???
This reminds me of the day Magic Johnson announced he had the Hiv-ie

Frank

1. - Awesome comment. Did you come up with that during the Chattanooga game this year? I thought you’d be busy dreaming of a revenge match against Loiusiana-Monroe?

1. - you do realize Stephen Garcia is your starting QB? Right?