Florida head football coach Urban Meyer has had all he can stands and he can’t stands no more when it concerns “scumbags” and “internet people” stinking up his football practices and sullying the pristine image of Florida Gators football with their evil ways.
Meyer told The Palm Beach Post this week that the reason he has closed football practices to protect his players and is primarily due to the dregs of society, namely “internet people” interfering with the well-oiled machine he has painstakingly constructed in Gainesville.
To wit (from The Palm Beach Post via Fanhouse):
“We can’t live the players’ lives, but we can certainly do the best we can,” he said Thursday. “You should have the right as a player to walk from here to there without being bothered.
“When I tell my colleagues that you get dressed, you walk across and people just maul you and bother you and internet people grabbing helmets, ‘Sign this,’ and we don’t have security saying, ‘Get the heck out of here.’ You’ll see a lot more ‘get the heck out of here’ from now on and let the kids go practice and concentrate on football.
“I’m concerned about the stuff where you get NCAA violations and scumbags that are involved that shouldn’t be involved,” he said. “One way to control it and that’s ‘get out.’”
Obviously, Meyer’s heart is in the right place as it pertains to protecting his players and his mention of “scumbags” is no doubt a reference to the potentially toxic relationship that can develop between college athletes and unscrupulous agents, but “internet people”? Seriously? I’m not even sure what that means. Is there some sort of subterranean race of World Wide Web-using basement dwellers that I haven’t heard about who have made it their twisted mission to destroy the integrity of college football?
If that indeed turns out to be the case, we will all be able to look back at the courage of one Urban Meyer for initiating the resistance to the Great Scourge of the Internet People. Below is what I suspect these horrible creatures might just look like:
Chilling stuff.
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Urban Meyer closed practices to keep agents, autograph hounds away [The Palm Beach Post]
Urban Meyer Closes Practices, Citing ‘Scumbags’ and ‘Internet People’ [Fanhouse]
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- Brian S. - Aug 9, 2010 at 12:04 AM
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I am sure Urban is referring to posters on message boards who are “in the know” about all of his players and spreading all sorts of false rumors. When you have a big time football program (and I say this as a lifelong member of Gator Nation), you have people that will say just about anything to try and tear down what you’ve built.
That said, a better choice of words than “internet people” probably would have been better.
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- David J. - Aug 9, 2010 at 4:15 PM
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You just have to understand that you cannot pay any attention to what Meyer says. He lied about being “dehydrated” as the reason for his hospitalization after the Alabama game, he lied about resigning, then he lied about taking a “leave of absence.” All of which were for his own self-promotion and self-protection. If you can’t believe anything he says, why bother to listen to anything he says? Ooops, I guess I must be one of those terrible internet people that point out things which make him uncomfortable.
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- Chris - Aug 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM
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Urban’s talking about bozos related to but probably much worse than you, Weed. And you know what happens to weeds on the field…
