Tebow defends Meyer in Miami game

#29
#29
Shannon's crying is a joke. Didn't they completely shred a lesser opponent a week before? I can't stand Meyer but have a lot of respect for Tebow. If you don't want to have a field goal kicked on you than it is your job as a coach to field a defense that can prevent it.
 
#30
#30
VolfanMike said:
Shannon's crying is a joke. Didn't they completely shred a lesser opponent a week before? I can't stand Meyer but have a lot of respect for Tebow. If you don't want to have a field goal kicked on you than it is your job as a coach to field a defense that can prevent it.
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What Shannon did wasn't really crying. What Meyer does after a loss in the media room is real crying. Like tears and all man, real embarrassing stuff.

Shannon was pissed and called a spade a spade. Any coach with a shread of respect for their opponent runs it up the middle with 40 seconds left and lets the opponent take a knee and run out the clock.

All of that said, I'm sure Shannon is over it and moved on right after the press conference following the game.
 
#31
#31
If Meyer teaches class, why the hell are you jumping around like you won the Super Bowl after running for a 3 yard gain?
 
#32
#32
Warren Sapp has his say on Meyer:

Ex-Canes star Warren Sapp, on a Showtime conference call Tuesday for Inside the NFL, called UF coach Urban Meyer ''a classless dirtbag'' for kicking a field goal late in Florida's 26-3 win against UM. ''But it's coming back in a big way'' when the teams meet in 2013, he said.
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#33
#33
LOL @ Warren Sapp. I guess the 'canes of old are truly a dead or dying breed. Those great teams of the 80's and early 90's would never have sulked over something like this.

I saw one comment by hat on this, agreeing with those of us that think it is silly. I haven't seen him around in this thread ot comment on it.
 
#34
#34
I think Warren Sapp's miami teams would've gone and beaten the next opponent by 70 or so points.
I don't like Florida, but i've switched my position on this.. teams run up the score sometimes.. i hope we have the chance to do it week in and week out. Part of me wishes they'd just hand off to the tailback when they are up big, but i can't sit here and say i wouldn't chuck it deep against a rival. Oh well...
 
#35
#35
Hypothetical situation here:

Let's say Things played out just as they did in Miami. Meyer sends his kicker in with less than a minute to go, to kick a meaningless field goal. Miami defenders seeing this as adding insult to injury decide to lay their ears back and go after the kick. Now lets say a defender gets to the kicker just missing the kick, but thinking he has the kick blocked runs into the punter and causes serious damage to the guys ______, ending his season.
(Mind you the defender was just laying his ears back and going after the kick nothing harmful intended)

Who would you place blame on for the kicker's season or career ending injury? would it be worth it? Could you not run the ball get a first down and ice the game? Do 3 extra points look that impressive to the people voting on the polls? What is the reasoning for doing this, if it were my team doing it I would have the same question.
 
#36
#36
KB5252 said:
Hypothetical situation here:

Let's say Things played out just as they did in Miami. Meyer sends his kicker in with less than a minute to go, to kick a meaningless field goal. Miami defenders seeing this as adding insult to injury decide to lay their ears back and go after the kick. Now lets say a defender gets to the kicker just missing the kick, but thinking he has the kick blocked runs into the punter and causes serious damage to the guys ______, ending his season.
(Mind you the defender was just laying his ears back and going after the kick nothing harmful intended)

Who would you place blame on for the kicker's season or career ending injury? would it be worth it? Could you not run the ball get a first down and ice the game? Do 3 extra points look that impressive to the people voting on the polls? What is the reasoning for doing this, if it were my team doing it I would have the same question.
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Too many what ifs to go through, but in that sense you sort of prove the point. You simply play the game until the clock reads triple 0's.
 
#37
#37
lawgator1 said:
Too many what ifs to go through, but in that sense you sort of prove the point. You simply play the game until the clock reads triple 0's.
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You're still arguing about this? I acually agree that is was way blown out of proportion but you don't seem to be very good a convincing others. I expect more from you.
 
#38
#38
VOLinthaATL said:
You're still arguing about this? I acually agree that is was way blown out of proportion but you don't seem to be very good a convincing others. I expect more from you.
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A few people have actually changed their mind since we started discussing it. However, you are correct in the sense that a large portion of those expressing outrage at it are doing so only because it involves the team they love to hate and so, even if they actually don't care about it, they are pretending it was an affront to all mankind just to get a cheap dig in.
 
#39
#39
lawgator1 said:
Too many what ifs to go through, but in that sense you sort of prove the point. You simply play the game until the clock reads triple 0's.
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No there was only one possibly two what ifs. 1) Miami injures the kicker 2) It is season or career ending.

I get your point, and Miami needs to move on. I just think it shows a little lack of class (unless there were some outrageous statements made by Miami and endorsed by their coach, that happens sometimes). And there is a risk in doing it also, I just don't see how going for the kick benefits your team in any way.
 
#40
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lawgator1 said:
A few people have actually changed their mind since we started discussing it. However, you are correct in the sense that a large portion of those expressing outrage at it are doing so only because it involves the team they love to hate and so, even if they actually don't care about it, they are pretending it was an affront to all mankind just to get a cheap dig in.
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And I see no problem with this:)
 
#41
#41
For the record, I have no problem with running up the score. I agree that it is up to the other team to stop you. Piling on the points in the third quarter is fine.

Kicking a field goal with 40 seconds left in a game that is decided is not running up the score, it's classless.
 
#42
#42
lawgator1 said:
LOL @ Warren Sapp. I guess the 'canes of old are truly a dead or dying breed. Those great teams of the 80's and early 90's would never have sulked over something like this.

I saw one comment by hat on this, agreeing with those of us that think it is silly. I haven't seen him around in this thread ot comment on it.
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I thought what Sapp said was funny.

"We're coming to get you Urban... 5 years from now."
 
#43
#43
With all the handwringing that's gone on in the media over this, I can't believe nobody's talked about the obvious reason for the last-second, meaningless field goal -- the point spread. If they don't kick that field goal, they don't cover. It sure looked to me like, when UF got the ball back at the end of the game, Meyer was coaching as though he knew a bunch of his fans had a lot of money on UF at -21.5.
 
#44
#44
Vercingetorix said:
With all the handwringing that's gone on in the media over this, I can't believe nobody's talked about the obvious reason for the last-second, meaningless field goal -- the point spread. If they don't kick that field goal, they don't cover. It sure looked to me like, when UF got the ball back at the end of the game, Meyer was coaching as though he knew a bunch of his fans had a lot of money on UF at -21.5.
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it's been mentioned a couple of times, but not as the main point. I don't know if Urban's covering the spread for folks or trying to get some voters on board. Either way, that meaningless FG meant something to him besides the lie about getting the FG kicker some work that's being peddled by his sycophants here.
 
#45
#45
It sure looked like the most blatantly spread-aware behavior I've seen in awhile from a football coach. Not that I think that that's necessarily the end of the world; part of college coaching is keeping the alums happy, and alums bet against the point spread. I don't expect coaches to operate in a vacuum. But that seems like a more germane issue here than whether Shannon got his feelings hurt, or Tebow's got Meyer's back, or whatever.
 
#46
#46
Jim Rome addressed the controversy at start of his program today and first mocked the Miami coach for suggesting that any five star recruit would decide to go to Miami because of that field goal, and then he mocked Sapp for being renowned as a nasty and taunting player for whining about this.

The whole thing is really backfiring on Miami at this point.
 
#47
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lawgator1 said:
Jim Rome addressed the controversy at start of his program today and first mocked the Miami coach for suggesting that any five star recruit would decide to go to Miami because of that field goal, and then he mocked Sapp for being renowned as a nasty and taunting player for whining about this.

The whole thing is really backfiring on Miami at this point.
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Rome is garbage.
 
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