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Urban Meyer has NO class whatsoever. First he attempts to explain away the Gators' inability to meet national expectations of blowing out Tennessee by saying that the swine flu outbreak on Gainesville campus had reached \"panic level.\" Then, in the article I've linked to, he claims that the only reason he didn't score more is because \"it didn't look like Tennessee was trying to win the game, only to keep it close.\"
How pathetic are you? Can't you just say \"It's a win in the SEC\" and move on, like you did immediately after the game? No, because you're so obsessed with your public image and because you perceived what Tennessee's defense did to your \"unstoppable\" Gator offense as a national embarrassment - and maybe because Skip Bayless said that after the game, Eric Berry was ahead of Tim Tebow on his Heisman list - you had to denigrate the Vols. It wasn't that their defense stopped you, oh no, it was that Tennessee didn't look like they were going to open up a pass attack, so you didn't feel the NEED to score a lot of points. What a load of crap. I didn't expect us to beat Florida before. Now I just pray we destroy them. How will he denigrate us after that game? By talking about himself in the third person again? By saying that the Gators didn't win because there was a chicken pox outbreak on campus?
I hate Tennessee as much as the next Gator, Gamecock or Tide fan, but they proved something to me on Saturday, which is that their defense can hold an offense in check, and that they will be a threat in the near future -- once they get a quarterback and some receivers, that is. Jeez, Urban, you can't even WIN well, you slimy toad!
1) Georgia beats Florida 42-30 in 2007. Urban Meyer writes a BOOK about it, talking about himself in the third person and crying about an endzone celebration that, immediately following it, Florida scored a touchdown to even the score 7-7.
2) Blowing Georgia out 49-10 the following year, \"Mr. Sportsmanship\" elects to take three timeouts in the final minute of the ballgame to rub it in Georgia's faces. Smirking after the game, he then claims that he was just \"getting Emmanuel Moody some more touches.\"
3) Urban Meyer, after beating a team whose coach guaranteed a win in Gainesville this year, a coach who EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY wanted Florida to beat just to shut him up, manages to get even ME on Lane Kiffin's side by claiming that his team was sick and Tennessee wasn't trying anyway, so a ten-point victory shouldn't be cause for concern.
GatorStrong and GatorinGA, I'm happy for you that you have your SEC trophies and your crystal footballs, but I'm damn sorry you have the coach you have. Winning isn't everything, gentlemen, it's also the legacy you leave behind as a man. As a man, Urban Meyer makes me want to puke.
We may not like the fact that he loses sometimes, Dawg Nation, but be thankful that Mark Richt is the man he is. Meyer never would have apologized after the end zone celebration. He would have smirked and pretended it didn't happen. Because he's trash. And now I can't wait for Halloween.
