When someone fails it is a good time to look at where things went wrong so that you can improve. Was my job bad? Is it possible that I don't get along with others? Is my odor suitable for the workplace?
It is time to double-down.
Since his firing, Urban Meyer has done nothing but blame others, and apparently nothing has changed. In an interview with NFL.com, Meyer explained how things went wrong.
I think college has changed as well. Society has changed. You think about how hard you pressed. It is the coach's job to find greatness in everybody, however I believe there is greatness in everybody. Positive encouragement. Pushing them to be greater, making them work harder, and trying to fix them. I think everything is in a bad state. That includes the coaching staffs. When I got into coaching, coaches weren't making this kind of money and they didn't have agents. Everything is so fragile that it used to be. I talked about it in a staff meeting. I got into this profession because of my high school coach. Meyer said all about the huddle.
I will take Hypocrisy for 2000, whoever is hosting the show now. Meyer saw himself as above the team. He was the only one not in the huddle. He is the only head coach in league history to not get on the team plane to go home after a game.
This statement is meaningless. Someone is all about the huddle. Did you cover up the abuse of one of your assistants? I think the victim didn't feel part of the team. Was she too fragile?
Everyone else is to blame. It isn't that you called your coaches loser, it's that they all have agents and are making good money. The world has become too soft for your coaching style that works. The majority of your black team didn't like the strength coach you hired.
I am beginning to understand. When men were allowed to kick your employees, they were tough enough to not say anything, but now they are so weak that they are standing up for themselves.
The reporter who broke the Josh Lambo story was on the Rich Eisen Show, and he claimed that he was the one who broke the story.
The attorney wrote a threatening letter about the story being published without certain information. To corroborate not that he didn't kick him, but that he kicked him, they wanted to offer up a couple of players.
Meyer's lawyers think he kicked Lambo. This is just another example of people not caring about the team. If a reporter asked a coach if they kicked someone but not that hard, they would happily say that they did.
Meyer failed in the NFL because he was selfish, but not when other people were. I guess because he is the head ball coach, he has earned that right. He didn't take responsibility like a head coach. When James Robinson was benched for fumbling, Meyer said that he didn't know he was benched and that it was the position coaches who kept track of who was on the field. I don't think "I have no idea who's playing" is the defense that you think it is.
He said that he has learned nothing. There is a lack of self awareness that leaves no doubt that if he is given another chance to coach, he will do whatever he wants at the expense of other people.
