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 LastTake 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 healthissues, and that he''s done coaching. It''s the same thing he said eight yearsago after walking away from Florida.
Back then, in 2010, he walked away from a program cratered with entitlementrun amok, roster manipulation, a drug problem in the locker room and morethan 30 player arrests in six seasons.
On Tuesday, he walked away from a program that has had a brutal season offthe field, including revelations of the reckless enabling of formerassistant coach Zach Smith, whose alleged domestic violence (among othernefarious issues) while working for Meyer at both Florida and Ohio Stateleft an indelible shame stain for all to see on one of the greatest coachesin 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 ofour generation, will just walk away at 54 years young, you''re the sameperson 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 awayfrom the grind will allow Meyer to get well (he has been dealing with anarachnoid cyst in his brain since the early 1990s), recharge and reorganizehis life.
Forget about the NFL. Meyer''s rah-rah, psychological motivation won''t workon grown men. It will, however, work at the highest level of collegefootball.
But if you''re USC, Auburn, Florida State or any other major program, are youwilling to sell your souls for championships, knowing full well the futurecollateral damage?Do you hire a coach who allegedly hid drug-test failures on the Floridasideline by having players wear walking boots so it looked like they wereinjured?Do you hire a coach who proclaims respecting women is his No. 1 priority butallows 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 theseason to make it right with them because he created an environment where anassistant, Smith, allegedly got into an altercation with the player, TrevonGrimes, and used a racial slur?I know, I know. All in the past. All just allegations. And Meyer denies itall.
Because what would make anyone doubt the honesty of a coach who was caughtlying by an Ohio State committee investigating the enabling of Smith? Whodeleted texts on his phone prior to investigators searching it for clues?Who told investigators he met with Smith''s wife in 2009 and she recanteddomestic abuse claims, even though Smith himself told the committee thatMeyer didn''t meet with her? Who would cook up a story about flying down toFlorida five days before a Big Ten road game to see Grimes'' sick mother outof the goodness of his heart—not because he was concerned a damaging storywould get out?At what point do college presidents see Meyer for what he is: a helluvafootball coach with a win-at-all-costs mentality who dangerously blurs theline 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 footballoperations how one would, you know, clear old texts messages, if one wantedto?He doesn''t fly down to Florida in the middle of the season to make a dealwith a backup freshman wide receiver who has three career catches. Hetravels to Florida to comfort a sick mother.
Ohio State knew all of this in August and still chose to slap Meyer on thewrist with a three-game suspension instead of ripping off the bandage andfiring him.
The old coaching adage is that a team is a reflection of its coach. Well, auniversity 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 programof preferential treatment at Florida with what he called his "Circle ofTrust," then move to Ohio State and do the same *** thing with his—readyfor 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 theuncomfortable suspension press conference in August, dripping with defianceand using forced, uncomfortable apologies. Then last month, Meyer toldreporters that headaches he gets from the cyst have become an issue, butthat he loves Ohio State and he wanted to coach the Buckeyes "as long as Ican."Let me be the first to translate that for you: He has worn out his welcomein Columbus, and he knows it.
It took six years at Florida. It took seven at Ohio State. He seems to havea bad locker room now (why else would star defensive end Nick Bosa not evenhang around to support his teammates while recovering from a core injury andwork out at the finest facilities in college football?), like he had a badlocker room when he left Gainesville after the 2010 season.
So now Meyer is retiring and wants to get healthy and spend more time withhis family (sound familiar?). He''ll sit out a season and do some televisionwork, and a big job will open up.
Then what? We''ll breathe deep and get through that shocking, can''t-be-truerevelation together.
Again.
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