Article on Urban Meyer in The Athletic

[Mr. Scot]

Mike Sando and Jayson Jenks have written an article chronicling Meyer's time with the Jaguars.

And holy crap is there some crazy stuff in here

Here's the first few paragraphs:

Urban Meyer burst into a room full of players at the Jaguars’ facility. He was furious.

One of his players had missed an assignment during a preseason game, leading to a busted play. Meyer was enraged when it happened. A day later, he was still fuming. If the mistake ever happened again, Meyer warned, he would cut every single one of them.

“And do you know what would happen if I cut you guys?” Meyer said, according to four people in the room. “You couldn’t get a job paying more than $15 an hour.”

There's more, including a much joked about note that despite being set to take an NFL head coaching job, Meyer had no idea who Aaron Donald and other well known players were.

The full article is here:

The most toxic environment I've ever been part of - Urban Meyer's disastrous year with the Jaguars

It's worth a read (subscription required).

[chknwing]

[d-dave]

What a sick, sad man Urban is.  Feel for his family.  It's just so crazy to read what the players and coaches said.  How can you work with or for someone like that?  How does he keep getting jobs?

Ugh.  Hopefully that's the end.  But I know it's not.

[travisura]

Trevor is also southern, but didn't seem to be included in Meyer's derogatory comment. Wonder if Meyer possibly meant something else by "These boys from the South". Possibly some coded language. Perhaps.

[Tbe]

I wonder what they’ll say about Rhule once he’s gone.

[tgrfan01]

11 minutes ago, travisura said:

Trevor is also southern, but didn't seem to be included in Meyer's derogatory comment. Wonder if Meyer possibly meant something else by "These boys from the South". Possibly some coded language. Perhaps.

he referred to a male as a boy...big whoop

[Mr. Scot]

15 minutes ago, tgrfan01 said:

he referred to a male as a boy...big whoop

I kinda think the terms he uses to address people aren't necessarily as big a problem as the fact that he treats everybody under him like absolute trash.

[tgrfan01]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

I kinda think the terms he uses to address people aren't necessarily as big a problem as the fact that he treats everybody under him like absolute trash.

ill agree on that..but the tweet was implying racism..i call all males boys and men

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, tgrfan01 said:

ill agree on that..but the tweet was implying racism..i call all males boys and men

I don't have enough information to know if Meyer is a racist.

With what I know though, I feel pretty comfortable saying he's an a--hole.

[CRA]

10 minutes ago, tgrfan01 said:

ill agree on that..but the tweet was implying racism..i call all males boys and men

 well, Trevor is a boy from the south.  Urban was at least implying there was something else there. 

then again, if you don't know who Aaron Darnold is.....maybe Urban didn't realize Trevor playing at Clemson and was born in GA. 

I think Urban just chooses to belittle everyone in a powertrip move and is a just a shitty human.   

[pantherclaw]

How did the Jags ever hire that man.  

[HardcoreHokie]

1 hour ago, CRA said:

 well, Trevor is a boy from the south.  Urban was at least implying there was something else there. 

then again, if you don't know who Aaron Darnold is.....maybe Urban didn't realize Trevor playing at Clemson and was born in GA. 

I think Urban just chooses to belittle everyone in a powertrip move and is a just a shitty human.   

Aaron Darnold will be the Panthers starting QB in 2022 and a Top-5 overall player in the league.  

Pitt Panthers to Carolina Panthers pipeline, check.

[CPcavedweller]

That line is kind of funny actually. I'm sure that when written it sounds bad. In the moment I'm sure it was meant as a joke.

Furthermore, he coached at Florida and Ohio State, he would know if transcripts were messed with. There is likely some truth here.

[Panthera onca]

This is classic narcissistic behavior. He’s a shitty human being.