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Urban Meyer hates Allen Iverson

Posted by HenryJames on September 14th, 2007 under Football

Urban Meyer looks like a grown up version of Frankie Muniz. I don’t care. I like him anyway. He’s a baby-faced assassin. And he tells you where you stand with him.

He calls his Tuesday practices ‘Bloody Tuesday.’ It’s a full speed practice during which Meyer breaks down areas of his team then builds them back up. Why? Because despite what the press releases might say, not every practice is good and you need to let the players know it.

He wasn’t too happy with the second team offensive line after Tuesday’s practice.

“Everyone has a job,” Meyer said. “You walk in a place of business, and there are some guys who don’t quite work as hard as other guys. And the difference between football, a tough sport, a violent sport, now if someone doesn’t do their job there’s a chance that someone is going to get free and hit the quarterback in the back of the head.”

Accountability to both your coaches and your teammates.

“That happened in practice today. And it’s not a starter, it’s a guy that’s obviously got more interest in other things than to protect the quarterback’s backside.”

Every team gets 85 scholarships, but he knows the difference between a scholarship player at Troy St and one at Tennessee.

“All due respect to our first two teams, this is now the SEC and Tennessee,” Meyer said. “The twos have to be accountable and right now they’re not. Some are, but a pretty good chunk are not.”

We’re not even talking about the game. We’re talking about practice.

Practice.

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  1. Rimbo said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 11:41 am

    There’s a difference between making those comments to the team, in private, and making them to the press.

  2. CommishCH said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I mean, what are we talkin bout? Practice? Not the game I die for everyday, but practice. Practice?

  3. HenryJames said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 11:53 am

    And there’s a difference between making those comments to the team, in private, and not making them at all.

  4. Nordberg said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

    THIS IS DIVISION 1 FOOTBALL!! THIS IS THE SEC!!

    Go play intramurals back-up offensive lineman… go play intramurals, brother.

  5. LonghornScott said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    And there’s a difference between not making those comments at all, and instead, making comments that are vaguely positive and mostly incomprehensible.

  6. Jesus Christ said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Are you calling Mack Brown a pussy?

  7. Facebook User said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    I liked it when you fought Santa Claus.

  8. mileslong said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 1:21 pm

    and sometimes making no comments at all is actually like making no comments to anyone in either public or private settings. and sometimes that actually speaks louder than if someone, were to in fact, actually make comments to a third party in public but not necessarily privately.

    im sorry for going off here but this makes me really angry…

  9. SizzleChest said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    There’s a difference between making those comments to the team, in private, and making them using a sock puppet that looks like Jerry Jones and talks to Barry Switzer’s cock by placing it’s sock puppet mouth on Barry Switzer’s cock and violently going up and down on Barry Switzer’s cock until the sock puppet that looks like Jerry Jones has a mess on its hands.

  10. chitwood said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    I had a former player in my office the other day, prior to TCU, and he told me that Mack will definitely chew their ass in private. Threatened to pull this kids scholarship, told him he was the worst player he had ever seen, etc. His public comments drive me nuts as well, but at least he will get on them behind closed doors.

    Now, if he would be pissed enough to shake up the depth chart, we’d be on to something.

  11. jimmyjazz said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    OK, I’m confused. Is Mack the sock, Barry Switzer, or Barry’s cock?

  12. SizzleChest said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    From the inside of the sock, you can’t explain it, from the outside, it makes you vomit.

  13. Superfan said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    Fuck, I thought I had it all figured out who hate who and why they didn’t like one guy’s coaching style and who thought that one guy or another was too soft in public an in private….

    Then SizzleChest rattled off some shit about a sock puppet and Barry Switzer’s cock and I suddenly had images of Bob Stoops letting one of his DB’s play in the 2nd half the weekend after being stopped for driving whilst intoxicated with open containers and weed in the car.

    Now I’m totally confused.

    Assholes.

  14. Superfan said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

    PS. Your timer sucks. I’m posting at 0003 9/15/07 and OU sucks.

  15. AugieSpiers said:

    September 14th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

    Enough people who know Mack well have reported, for me to believe it, that he can be and is a hard ass in private. I think the issue is just that he genuinely believes in the people around him (this can be a good trait, too), so despite riding them, he maintains his trust in them when it comes to the bottom line.

    Sometimes, this works. Sticking with Vince when he was struggling was 100% the right move. Not all coaches would have been as wise – the mistake against Wazzou would have been repeated by Spurrier.

    Other times, it has been a mistake, IMO.

  16. Macanudo said:

    September 15th, 2007 at 8:47 am

    Mack might very well be a hard ass in private. Whatever he’s doing, it doesn’t seem to be working.

  17. longhornmatt said:

    September 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

    Maybe three claps is really code for, “I will pull your scholarship, tip the cops off about the weed in your car, and make sure you work at 7-Eleven for the rest of your life if you don’t stop playing like shit. And don’t forget that I know where your family lives from our in-home visit.”

    Or maybe it isn’t. Personally, Mack’s dear in the headlights expression during games and his inability to handle any type of criticism make me doubt that he is a hardass, regardless of how much he yells at Peter Ullman behind closed doors.

  18. Superfan said:

    September 16th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Longhornmatt… is your “dear” regularly in the headlights?

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