Can Urban Meyer reach the NFL?
Urban’s Shot
Butch Davis wasn’t leaving Miami, proclaimed Butch Davis lots of times for the length of and after the Hurricanes’ 2000 season. He wasn’t leaving Miami for Alabama, who fired Mike DuBose after four seasons, nor was he leaving for the Houston Texans, a selection team looking out for their first-ever coach, or the Cleveland Browns, who won five games in two seasons underneath Chris Palmer.
Davis on Nov. 29, 2000: “I took this job [as Miami’s coach] with the premise that this would be the closing teaching job that I take hang of.”
Dec. 30: “Originate no longer [the Browns] bask in a coach? I’m happy in South Florida. My family loves it there. I notion to coach at Miami for a protracted time.”
Dec. 31: “If I leave now, that makes me a deadbeat dad, on story of right here is my family. I want to develop my profession fair right here at Miami.”
Jan. 2, 2001: “I even bask in no need in any respect for the Browns to contact me.”
Jan. 20: “I’ll bask in a new contract, and I’ll be the coach at Miami next 365 days.”
Davis was launched as Cleveland Browns’ head coach on Jan. 30.
Butch Davis wasn’t the first coach to, at simplest, deceive and, at worst, intentionally lie about his profession intentions, and he won’t be the closing. Roy Williams did it 18 years ago, Invoice O’Brien seven years ago, and Urban Meyer has performed it lots of times over the closing decade. In the case of Urban Meyer, as a minimum he wasn’t deceptive and/or lying to unique gamers this time. However, given his tranquil relationship with the true fact for the length of his profession, the lying composed matters and it’s exhausting to evaluate any promise or draw from his mouth.
Positively, Meyer and everybody else is allowed to deceive and/or lie about their profession intentions, and his first-ever foray into professional soccer will likely be a attention-grabbing experiment for our entertainment capabilities. Mute, it gets outdated faculty. In the case of Meyer, a habitual liar who criticizes totally different liars, it gets the truth is outdated faculty.
Since 2000, 11 coaches bask in long past straight from college soccer to the NFL. And whereas Meyer had a two-365 days hiatus after a domestic abuse quilt-up compelled him out at Ohio Issue, for all intents and capabilities, he’ll be the 12th. Of the outdated 11, handiest three bask in posted files above .500 with that NFL team: Invoice O’Brien (52–48), Chip Kelly (26–21), and Jim Harbaugh (44-19-1). Mixed, the coaches are 216-237-2 (.477), and handiest one coached as a minimum 65 games with that team (O’Brien).
“Meyer is attractive for the grief of the NFL, on story of he knows what the grief is,” Albert Breer wrote closing week. “…[F]rankly, it’s precisely what the Jaguars need. Jacksonville isn’t an offensive guru a ways from winning. The organization wishes a high-to-bottom housecleaning, the trend Buffalo did when Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane arrived in 2017. That ability eradicating what one long-time team employee known as a ‘9-to-5 culture’ in the building and, the truth is, that might perchance maybe be performed handiest by taking the difficulty the total trend down to the studs, love McDermott and Beane did.”
Jordan McNair
Thirty-two months after Jordan McNair collapsed on the Maryland soccer be aware enviornment, his family reached a $3.5 million settlement with the University of Maryland.
McNair’s loss of life on June 13, 2018 ended in an investigation that published a toxic culture of intimidation by then-head coach D.J. Durkin. The culture contributed to the coaching employees’s treatment of McNair, who didn’t receive emergency scientific love an hour after collapsing.
“The reported incidents of hideous verbal abuse, the spend of meals punitively and recurrently belittling and humiliating gamers caused two lengthy external investigations into Maryland’s soccer program,” wrote ESPN’s Heather Dinich, who reported the settlement predominant points on Friday. “The findings concluded that participants of Maryland’s athletic coaching employees failed to mercurial diagnose and wisely address McNair’s heatstroke indicators, and in the rupture resulted in the firing of Durkin, who was employed closing January as an assistant coach by Lane Kiffin at Ole Shuffle over.”
Odds & Ends
Preferred NFL bets for this weekend … Brian Daboll is a favorite for the Chargers’ job … Andrew Brandt wrote a amazing article on changing the model for GM candidates … The NFL rescinded Josh Gordon’s conditional reinstatement … Ralph Lauren dropped Justin Thomas after his anti-LGBTQ slur closing week in Hawaii … NBA Expansion: Ultimate markets without an NBA team … Cordarrelle Patterson is lobbying Deshaun Watson to Chicago … This is amazing … Occupation playoff experience on energetic rosters of Divisional Spherical groups.
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