Posts tagged Tim Tebow
Not a Good Week for Gators, No Complaints Here
Mar 25th
Wow! Coach Urban Meyer, of the Florida Gators, is finding it increasingly difficult to control his inner Woody Hayes.
All of you have heard it and seen it by now.
Nobody enjoys watching Gators suffer as much as I do. Over the years, the University of Florida’s success, in a myriad of sports, has only served to throw gasoline on the fiery hatred I have for all things Gator.
I hated the Doug Dickey, Charlie Pell and Galen Hall squads just because that is how I was raised. My hatred became an obsession when Steve Spurrier returned to Gainesville and made a mockery of the WLOCP. The hatred was no longer a cultural thing, it was personal. It was real.
Ron Zook, meh. Urban Meyer, this crazy man is worthy of my hate. I was not happy when Spurrier left Florida. He went out on top, at least from my vantage point. I wanted the Dawgs to supplant him. Alas, he left and history will not be changed.
Which brings me to the latest of many Urban Meyer meltdowns.
I want Urban in Gainesville as long as it takes to “right” things in my world. Where I come from, we don’t say “uncle”, we say “two out of three.” If that doesn’t work, we say “three out of five.”
Anyway, I want Urban to stick around for a while. Unfortunately, I don’t think he will be able to. The man is about to implode. If he makes it long enough, I imagine sometime shortly after the 2010 NFL Draft Coach Meyer is going to challenge Todd McShay to a duel.
Many of the Gator faithful see Meyer’s actions as merely standing up for his players, both past and present. He reasoning for the thinly veined physical threat was Keonte Thompson is a good kid and didn’t deserve that…. He told Fowler to call Thompson’s family and apologize.
Yada, yada, yada. This was about Tebow, and more importantly, the root of all Tebow criticism, Meyer himself.
I find any narrative about Urban Meyer generally caring for his players to be fiction.
Lost in all the drama surrounding Urban Meyer, his health, his retirement, his sabbatical, and daughters getting their daddy back, is this man’s character.
He hired a NFL guy to serve as the Gator’s Defensive Coordinator for recruiting purposes only. Period. He lost his DC, it was going to effect recruiting so he addressed it by bringing in a guy just for recruiting purposes.
He got these kids he cares so much about to sign 4 or 5 years of their lives away on false pretenses. The day after the ink dried on all those blue-chip defensive studs, Mr. NFL bolted back to the NFL. That is Urban Meyer in a nut shell.
Urban Meyer and the university of Florida are a match made in, well, let’s just say they are a match.
Coach Meyer, please follow doctor’s orders. You also may want to have one of those skillful Gator lawyers by your side at all times. I don’t want anything to get in the way of our annual Jacksonville get together.
Cognitive Thinking, Like Elongated Deliveries, Is Not The University Of Florida’s Concern
Mar 10th
During the Senior Bowl week we were all treated to story after story regarding Tim Tebow’s elongated throwing motion and lack of preparation for the NFL game. Each of those stories was met with a firm rebuttal by the Gator journos across the land.
The defense of the throwing motion and lack of preparation for Sunday football centered on two things.
First, Tebow’s defenders would assert his record at Florida and the Heisman Trophy. No doubt, the kid is a winner, both on and off the field.
Second, Gator scribes would point out it is not Urban Meyer’s job to prepare Tebow for Sundays. Urban’s only requirement is to win on Saturday. Fair enough.
I respect Tim Tebow. Many in his camp attempted to persuade him to skip the Senior Bowl. In deed, they tried to get him to skip the NFL combine. Tebow, to his credit, was having no part of hiding.
He showed up in Mobile, fumbled snaps and slowly released the ball. If nothing else, he showed courage. Following the Senior Bowl he was asked if he still planned to attend the combine. Yes, was his answer. Will you throw? Yes.
Off to Nashville he went to get “schooled” on the ways of an NFL quarterback. Every report was things were going fantastic. The elongated delivery had been tamed. He was going to show the world.
Apparently the elongated delivery flared up’ This time Tebow listened to his handlers and did not participate in throwing drills. He would participate in everything else.
Mistake!
After 4 years of classes and a degree from the University of Florida, the Wonderlic test surely would not be Superman’s second dose of kryptonite, would it?
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow got only 22 of 50 questions correct. Notre Dame’s Jimmy Clausen was only one answer better, with a 23.
Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford aced the thing (relatively speaking), getting 36 out of 50 right.
I can only imagine how his score would have suffered had he left early like Matthew Stafford or Sam Bradford.
Personally, I can’t wait for the spin that is surely coming from Mike Bianchi, Pat Dooley, Matt Hayes, and Greg Doyel. Dennis Dodd is surely to let us know this is not Urban Meyer’s fault. But it is the orange clad Gators I most want to hear from.
It should be fun!
Tim Tebow: As Effective as Ever
Feb 8th
As a true “Gator Hater” I am not to compliment the reptiles. Having watched the controversy over Tebow’s “abortion” ad that aired on during the Super Bowl, I can’t help but chuckle.
If you ever had your tail kicked by the big bully on the play ground you may know what I am talking about. You stood up to the bully. The bully did his thing. Pain and humiliation are your rewards. You doubt your reasons for ever having stood up to the bully.
Then a new kid comes to your school. The new kid has heard about the bully, but thinks he will be the one to teach the bully a lesson. Wrong. The bully prevails and you take some sort of morbid pleasure at another’s defeat at the hands of your rival.
In this analogy Tim Tebow plays the role of the bully, The Gloria Allred’s and their ilk are the “new kids.
Let me say, as a libertarian type, I am against most government, especially centralized government. If you are going to pass laws that affect my life you should have to live near me and face the consequences of your actions. Politicians should live among the governed. Relocation to Washington DC, or Hollywood for politicians, should not be an option.
I am not a pro-lifer. I am not a pro-choicer. I am thankful. I am thankful my mother did not abort me. I am thankful your mother did not abort you, dearest reader.
Back to the Tebow controversy.
The commercial was simply a Trojan horse. It, the commercial, had accomplished its goals before it ever ran. In fact, it did not need to run. The Tebow’s and Focus on the Family accomplished their every goal with a huge assist from Gloria Allred and the left-wing political pundits that fill the cable news day.
For two weeks, the left-wing crazies were gearing up in a prevent defense trying to stop Tebow from beating them deep. For two weeks Tebow advanced the ball down the field, chewing up clock, putting the game out of reach. Urban Meyer never designed a play for Tebow as effective as the one run by Focus on the Family.
I despise politicians, but enjoy the sport of politics. If there were a Heisman Trophy awarded for political campaigns I believe Focus on the Family just coached Tebow to another statue.
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