Well, that was quick.
Quicker than expected, that is.
Urban Meyer was always going to be brief about this, because putting the autocrat of all collegiate autocrats in charge of a team of grown men was a car-hits-bridge-abutment proposition from the jump. It was Nick Saban and the Dolphins all over again, Steve Spurrier and the Washington Football Team, Lou Holtz and the Jets.
Who last exactly as long as ol' Urb lasted in Jacksonville, as it turned out.
Thirteen games in and Lou quit, and 13 games in and Urb got the gate in J-ville yesterday. The Jets were 3-10 when Lou bailed; Urb was 2-11 and had apparently lost his team, alienated his coaching staff and, oh, yeah, allegedly kicked his former kicker in the leg during warmups for a preseason game.
"Don't you ever (bleeping) kick me again!" the kicker, Josh Lambo, says he told Meyer, to his credit.
"I'm the head ball coach, I'll kick you whenever the (bleep) I want," Lambo quotes Meyer as responding.
Which sounds exactly like something an autocratic college football coach would say.
That sort of thing won't fly on the pro level, where the players make more money than the head ball coach and, certainly in this case, know their game better. They're not college kids beholden to Coach for their scholarships; they're professionals who don't need to be kicked to give an effort. The very fact they're where they are indicates they've given an effort and more.
In any event, the Urban Meyer experiment is over, having dismally failed. Which makes the Blob recall what it wrote when Meyer was hired.
Enjoy him while you got him, Jacksonville. Because he could be gone before you know it.
So he is.
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