Link: AP: Meyer returns from leave of absence for Florida

[Heavy D]

I didn't realize he was ever gone
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[dWarriors88]

Publicity Stunt, since their no longer on top of the world like this time last year, they have to find SOME way to stay in the spotlight

 

[WKURainwater]

I have a feeling that this story be continued on December 4 2010. RTR

 

[TUSKtimes]

Probably, just out of vacation time. Happens around here all the time.

 

[rickvox79]

 

[Crimson Cat]

I have a feeling that this story be continued on December 4 2010. RTR

Welcome to the board!:BigA:




I guess the "we just want our daddy back" part is over...
I agree the whole thing was/is a stunt.

How I wish we had let Roy run the ball in for that last td...Meyers leave of absence might have lasted a bit longer.:biggrin2:

 

[BamaFossil]

Count me among those who are glad he's back. I know... rival school etc. But I think he's a great coach and don't want him to leave the profession in the prime of his life.

 

[rizolltizide]

Whatever. One of the biggest fiascos I've witnessed lately. I'd love to know the real story of just exactly what the hell is going on there.

 

[RJ YellowHammer]

Whatever. One of the biggest fiascos I've witnessed lately. I'd love to know the real story of just exactly what the hell is going on there.

That makes two of us. I have to believe this story involves more than just a 24 hour change of heart.

 

[kyallie]

Whoop-t-do!

 

[exiledNms]

Personally, my apathy about all things Urban Meyer continues to rage at a fever pitch...*yawns*

 

[bamabryan]

I have a feeling that this story be continued on December 4 2010. RTR

I hope this story continues on October 2, 2010 and then continues on December 4, 2010.

 

[WKURainwater]

I hope this story continues on October 2, 2010 and then continues on December 4, 2010.

Thanks Crimson Cat, love the board just never got around to posting. I agree 100% Bryan, except I really don't want him to run away on October 2, because then we lose the chance to whip him again Dec. 4.

 

[TommyMac]

Whatever. One of the biggest fiascos I've witnessed lately. I'd love to know the real story of just exactly what the hell is going on there.

Yep, and we no longer have Paul Harvey to tell us "the rest of the story."

 

[TIDE-HSV]

I think he comes back, tries it again, and ends up in the same shape as before, particularly if there're a couple of losses...

 

[Hal Bennett]

Well, "a college footbll expert" was telling us just last season, I believe, what a great rivalry it was going to be in the SEC West between Nick Saban and Les Miles -- "a ten-year affair," like the rivalry "between Bo Schembechler and Woody Hayes."

Before Coach Bryant came into the SEC, Bobby Dodd, Johnny Vaught, and Paul Dietzel had been ruling the SEC roost. Bryant beat Dodd and Georgia Tech like a drum and so Dodd took his team and left the SEC. Bryant beat Vaught and Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl; Vaught didn't leave, but he never really challenged Bryant enough to make it a real "rivalry." After the initial 1958 game in Ladd Stadium (LSU 13- Ala 3), Dietzel left LSU for Army before he ever had to play Bryant and Alabama again. Bryant commenced making his successor, Charley Mac, his lap dog.

O yeah. I forgot Shug Jordan and Auburn, who had won the national championship in 1957. Bryant ruled Shug to the point that when Auburn won in 1972 on one or two blocked punts, it was the high point of Auburn football for over two decades.

The question I have had is not whether Les Miles will really challenge Nick Saban for dominance, but whether Nick Saban will so dominate the Southeastern Conference that NO one will challenge him -- like it was when Bryant was here.

The only other possibility I see is if it will indeed be a rivalry between Saban and Urban Meyer. I have been impressed with Urban Meyer since his first year at Florida, when I saw them play Tennessee on TV. I just thought Meyer was all business, just like I thought Nick Saban was all business at LSU. Urban Meyer is a good football coach. He has proved that at Utah and Florida.

When Meyer threw his headset in the SEC championship game, THAT seemed to me to be when Meyer realized, "You know, this guy is actually going to be difficult to beat."

Something happened to the psyche, the Soul, of Steve Spurrier, I think, when Alabama beat him twice in one year under Mike DuBose. If Spurrier hadn't cashed in his chips and run off to Washington, he might still be ruling the SEC roost at Florida -- and that would be a rivalry now, him against Saban. But Spurrier got cold feet, apparently, and now he doesn't have to worry about the pressure cooker of challenging Nick Saban -- or the record of Bear Bryant. He could have done both if he had stayed at Florida. He can't get enough blue chip recruits at South Carolina, and that provides him with an excuse to stay out of the heat of the SEC kitchen.

 

[GrayTide]

It is very different being the hunter and being the hunted. Also, odds have a way of playing into things, winning 27 of 29 games makes the odds of continuing at that pace very low. If you think every team stands in awe of Alabama after the 2009 season you are wrong. Every team we play will have its best game against us and at some point our lack of experience and the odds are going to catch up with us. Football runs in cycles, and we are again on an up cycle, but the SEC is full of talent and the best coaches in the country. Meyer will be back, not Tebowesque but with the best talent in the country to challenge Alabama.

I do however, think this whole thing has been weird and appears to have been a shock that he is not invincible.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

Urban Meyer invented comebacks.

 

[BamaGoose]

Urban Meyer invented comebacks.

Urban Meyer invented hotdogs.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

He could have done both if he had stayed at Florida. He can't get enough blue chip recruits at South Carolina, and that provides him with an excuse to stay out of the heat of the SEC kitchen.

Have to mildly disagree. Spurrier's offense (the only thing he really ever cared about) is obsolete and it will not make a comeback, any more than the wishbone will. Modern defenses (and fast defensive talent) have caught up with it. Unless he can make the kind of quantum jumps that Coach Bryant could make in updating the wishbone - and I don't see it happening, because his heart isn't in it - he's destined to splutter his way to retirement. True, it's hard to recruit where he is, but I don't believe he could win the way he did in the past, even if he were still the coach at UF. Now, I think his offense would be treated about the way it was in the NFL - and Nick would be the one doing the treating...