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发帖数: 19 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 NCAA 讨论区 】
发信人: cellneuron (cell2), 信区: NCAA
标 题: 市长也许永远不会吸取教训， 下一个学校会是谁？
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 5 01:45:31 2018, 美东)
从鳄鱼到八盖， 市长都在泥潭里灰溜溜的离开， 留下的是一片骂名。他的蛛网膜囊肿
在30年前就发现了并治疗， 对他的生命其实没有太大威胁。当然市长每次离开都用不
同的病。
他显然不会就这样退休， 这维持不了他现在的生活水平。 在家呆一年风平浪静后肯定
复出， 就不知道是哪个学校要倒霉了。
转一篇文章，市长也许是个老好人， 但肯定不是一个好统帅。
Urban Meyer Leaves Another Program Disgraced—and It Won't Be His Last
Take a deep breath, everyone. We'll get through this shocking revelation,
this can't-be-true moment, together.
Urban Meyer has retired. Again.
Meyer proclaimed Tuesday that he's leaving Ohio State because of health
issues, and that he's done coaching. It's the same thing he said eight years
ago after walking away from Florida.
Back then, in 2010, he walked away from a program cratered with entitlement
run amok, roster manipulation, a drug problem in the locker room and more
than 30 player arrests in six seasons.
On Tuesday, he walked away from a program that has had a brutal season off
the field, including revelations of the reckless enabling of former
assistant coach Zach Smith, whose alleged domestic violence (among other
nefarious issues) while working for Meyer at both Florida and Ohio State
left an indelible shame stain for all to see on one of the greatest coaches
in the history of the sport.
The next big question: Who takes a chance on Meyer when he wants back in?
If you think Meyer, the most competitive, win-at-all-costs football coach of
our generation, will just walk away at 54 years young, you're the same
person who believes he's as pure and true as the Pope he's named after.
Any number of jobs could be available for the 2020 season, and a year away
from the grind will allow Meyer to get well (he has been dealing with an
arachnoid cyst in his brain since the early 1990s), recharge and reorganize
his life.
Forget about the NFL. Meyer's rah-rah, psychological motivation won't work
on grown men. It will, however, work at the highest level of college
football.
But if you're USC, Auburn, Florida State or any other major program, are you
willing to sell your souls for championships, knowing full well the future
collateral damage?
Do you hire a coach who allegedly hid drug-test failures on the Florida
sideline by having players wear walking boots so it looked like they were
injured?
Do you hire a coach who proclaims respecting women is his No. 1 priority but
allows star tailback Carlos Hyde to return to the team after just a three-
game suspension when video evidence showed Hyde slapping a woman at a bar?
Do you hire a coach who did nothing after a star player (Percy Harvin)
allegedly attacked one of his assistant coaches at Florida?
Do you hire a coach who had to visit a player's family in the middle of the
season to make it right with them because he created an environment where an
assistant, Smith, allegedly got into an altercation with the player, Trevon
Grimes, and used a racial slur?
I know, I know. All in the past. All just allegations. And Meyer denies it
all.
Because what would make anyone doubt the honesty of a coach who was caught
lying by an Ohio State committee investigating the enabling of Smith? Who
deleted texts on his phone prior to investigators searching it for clues?
Who told investigators he met with Smith's wife in 2009 and she recanted
domestic abuse claims, even though Smith himself told the committee that
Meyer didn't meet with her? Who would cook up a story about flying down to
Florida five days before a Big Ten road game to see Grimes' sick mother out
of the goodness of his heart—not because he was concerned a damaging story
would get out?
At what point do college presidents see Meyer for what he is: a helluva
football coach with a win-at-all-costs mentality who dangerously blurs the
line between righteous and renegade?
He doesn't know about damaging details. He forgets them.
He doesn't delete text messages. He just asks his director of football
operations how one would, you know, clear old texts messages, if one wanted
to?
He doesn't fly down to Florida in the middle of the season to make a deal
with a backup freshman wide receiver who has three career catches. He
travels to Florida to comfort a sick mother.
Ohio State knew all of this in August and still chose to slap Meyer on the
wrist with a three-game suspension instead of ripping off the bandage and
firing him.
The old coaching adage is that a team is a reflection of its coach. Well, a
university is, too. A three-game suspension, and back on the horse.
If we don't learn from history, we're doomed to watch Meyer build a program
of preferential treatment at Florida with what he called his "Circle of
Trust," then move to Ohio State and do the same *** thing with his—ready
for it?—"Brotherhood of Trust," all over again somewhere else.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Who's next?
The clock started ticking on Meyer's latest exit once he sat through the
uncomfortable suspension press conference in August, dripping with defiance
and using forced, uncomfortable apologies. Then last month, Meyer told
reporters that headaches he gets from the cyst have become an issue, but
that he loves Ohio State and he wanted to coach the Buckeyes "as long as I
can."
Let me be the first to translate that for you: He has worn out his welcome
in Columbus, and he knows it.
It took six years at Florida. It took seven at Ohio State. He seems to have
a bad locker room now (why else would star defensive end Nick Bosa not even
hang around to support his teammates while recovering from a core injury and
work out at the finest facilities in college football?), like he had a bad
locker room when he left Gainesville after the 2010 season.
So now Meyer is retiring and wants to get healthy and spend more time with
his family (sound familiar?). He'll sit out a season and do some television
work, and a big job will open up.
Then what? We'll breathe deep and get through that shocking, can't-be-true
revelation together.
Again. |
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