Too Bad TREX is gone

[buckeye_in_sc]

2nd assistant leaving UF...

The RB coach is headed to Tenn...and he stated conversation didn't start out too well and now Doc Holiday is leaving...I thought no one ever left Gainesville...

put that together with his shoddy recruiting tactics...and I hate bagging on an Ohio guy...but what a fucker...

[SoCalTrjn]

CUM will be heading out of there pretty rikky tick, wonder if he will take the Redskins or Falcons job

[Terry in Crapchester]

I'd also be interested in seeing TRIXIE's reaction to this: http://blogs.sltrib.com/utes/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This Gator in hot water?
Everyone who follows college football knows the impact former Utah coach Urban Meyer has made at Florida, turning the Gators into a national caliber, and national championship team, after several years of unsatisfactory results. Now he apparently is making an impact on its gymnastics program too, and apparently some NCAA violations if
the story is correct.

In short, Meyer was recruiting junior college receiver Carl Moore, who attended Sierra Community College in Placerville, Calif., along with his girlfriend, Maranda Smith. Smith had competed for UCLA's gymnastics team in 2006, but quit after an injury.

Once Meyer realized he wasn't going to sign Moore without Smith attending Florida as well, he contacted Florida gymnastics coach Rhonda Faehn for help. She just happened to have a scholarship available. The couple are now Gators, with Smith scoring a 9.775 on the uneven bars in exhibition Friday.

Sounds shady, doesn't it? It might just be.

In the story, Smith relates how she talked to Meyer "every day" in November and how he wanted her to attend Florida and compete in gymnastics.

First of all, as a football coach, Meyer cannot recruit for another sport. By contacting Smith, he broke the rule that all phone calls must be made by a head coach or one or more assistant coaches who count toward the limits of coaches who can recruit in a sport, which is three in gymnastics. Also, since he was effectively acting as a gymnastics coach, he broke the rule that in gymnastics coaches are allowed to contact recruits only once a week.

It'll be interesting to see if this article brings any sort of punishment for Meyer and the Florida program. He has been known to stretch rules and recruiting ethics before, with numerous reports of how he still heavily recruited athletes after they'd given other schools oral commitments. I wonder how this is going to play out with the NCAA?

[Killian]

You could also add to the list the quote by Daryl Stonum, WR at UofM who said that Meyer called him after Carr retired and told Stonum that Carr called Meyer and said that Rodriguez wouldn't be using Stonum in the new offense and that he should go to UF.

Or the fact that Florida called Patrick Johnson's ACT score into question after he committed to LSU and not UF.

Or that the RB coach left to take a lateral position at a huge rival because of the way Meyer treats his coaches and the fact that his offense doesn't feature the RB.

Meyer may not get caught breaking rules, but as a few have put it; "he breaks the spirit of the rules." He loves to live in loop holes and grey areas. He's making quite a few enemys within the coaching ranks.