Urban Meyer Steps Down at Florida

[UNCBears2010]

Urban Meyer is stepping down as coach of the Florida football team, athletics director Jeremy Foley announced Saturday afternoon in a release.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4772952

Wow.

[Reign of Terrier]

With the hc, oc, dc from their championship team and tebow and spikes gone. next year the dynasty is officially over...but as a dawg fan i know they'll still find a way to beat us.

[ngineer]

As reported in the SI article a few weeks ago, Meyer has had chronic problems with severe headaches going back many years due to a benign cyst on his brain. I dare say, the stress of being in such a high profile position does not help, and applaud the guy for recognizing his priorities.

[uofmman1122]

Urban Meyer will be the next coach at Montana. xnodx

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[EKU05]

He is apprarently changing it to just an "indefinite hiatus" for now.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091227/SPORTS/912270346/Florida+s+Urban+Meyer+appears+back+peddling+on+dec ision+to+resign

[Cocky]

This can't help recruiting.

[Hoyadestroya85]

Does this indefinite hiatus mean that recruits can be released? This can only be a good thing for Miami and FSU.

[GeauxColonels]

This can't help recruiting.
I was thinking the same thing. It's truly a bizarre turn of events for Florida.

[GeauxColonels]

Does this indefinite hiatus mean that recruits can be released? This can only be a good thing for Miami and FSU.
Not just those schools, but you've got other major programs that look to Florida on a yearly basis, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia...this could potentially help them all as well.

[Big Al]

I have to wonder what monetary penalties would be in place if Urban resigned? He's making a healthy chunk of change at UF and I have to think they would start asking for money back if he even sniffed around at another job.

[EKU05]

Not just those schools, but you've got other major programs that look to Florida on a yearly basis, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia...this could potentially help them all as well.

How about Louisville who just hired the state of Florida's top recruiter?

[GeauxColonels]

How about Louisville who just hired the state of Florida's top recruiter?
Maybe...but I would still think that it's much harder to pull a kid up to Louisville, Kentucky versus places like Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, USC, etc.

[Big Al]

One other possibility:

This was all a stunt to motivate his team for the Sugar Bowl -- win one for the Gipper, if you will.

[UNCBears2010]

One other possibility:

This was all a stunt to motivate his team for the Sugar Bowl -- win one for the Gipper, if you will.

He could also be doing the same thing that Coach K did at Duke in 1994. He took a look at the personnel he had, saw the talent level wasn't what it had been in previous years, and decided that was the time to have surgery to deal with the bad back that had been bugging him for years. Sure enough, the Blue Devils won just 2 ACC games that year, but were back to being competitive when Krzyzewski returned the next year.

With Tebow, among others, leaving, isn't it a possibility that Meyer said to himself, "We won't be anything special next year anyway, it's probably a good time for me to take a year off and relieve some stress."?

[Hoyadestroya85]

Anyone else find it bizarre that in the last 5 years at University of Florida, both of their young successful coaches who have won two national championships have announced they are leaving then backtracked on the decision.

[SuperJon]

I can't picture this being a Coach K situation. They've got one of the best quarterbacks in the SEC next year. Yeah, they're not going undefeated and might only win 8-10 games, but to think they're going to be K Back Surgery bad is a little much.

[Hoyadestroya85]

They'll go to the peach bowl.

[Reign of Terrier]

They return most of their secondary most of the offense spare tebow. the talent is there but the thing is that the coaching is not. i dont care who you are, if you lose youre oc and dc from an nc team and your star players you wont be as good. there's a reason their offense wasnt as good this year the same could happen to the d next year

[EKU05]

Maybe...but I would still think that it's much harder to pull a kid up to Louisville, Kentucky versus places like Georgia, Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, USC, etc.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100108/SPORTS02/1080382/1002/sports/Louisville+s+Strong+gets+4-star+recruit+to+switch+from+Georgia

Just thought I'd through this one in there. Strong had a 4-star kid decommit from UGA. I think he's going to be a bigger player here than people realize.

[blueballs]

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100108/SPORTS02/1080382/1002/sports/Louisville+s+Strong+gets+4-star+recruit+to+switch+from+Georgia

Just thought I'd through this one in there. Strong had a 4-star kid decommit from UGA. I think he's going to be a bigger player here than people realize.

We'll see how Butler does at Louisville... he isn't known to be the most disciplined player out there if you get my drift. UGA's loss might be their gain in an odd sort of way.