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An Unfair Game: Urban Meyer, a History of Abuse
www.projectveritas.com ^ | 08/02/2018 | by Stephen Gordon

Posted on 08/02/2018 12:09:11 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: zeestephen
" Please, please tell me that O’Keefe has NOT decided to become a Fair and Balanced journalist who is now Reaching Out to Mainstream Americans. "

Sorry, can't tell you that. This might be a story that everyone needs to hear.

One might tell you that he's taking an unexpected, yet due, turn in his operation. Remember, surprise has much to do with his success, and to be perfectly honest, if he's getting into NFL and college football he's in a target-rich environment.

There will be more to come... although the kind of sadism they're talking about here with humans being deliberately knocked out is the lowest of the low, and hard to beat in terms of human lowlife-ness...

...And, to be completely honest with you, depending on the timeline of Mr. O'Keefe's story I uh, won't be surprised if another certain team's recently laid off strength and conditioning coach... maybe others too... get called to account.

I say let Mr. O'Keefe go for it, and let the chips fall where they will.

I'm not saying "all", nor am I saying "most", but I, for one, won't be surprised if it turns into "many".

(Check out my new tagline, I've had it for a couple of weeks now.)

21 posted on 08/02/2018 1:18:26 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): The 1200 pound gorilla...)
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To: ealgeone

‘Urban did nothing to help prepare Tebow for the NFL’

first, that’s not why he was hired; secondly, Tebow was effectively blackballed in the NFL because of his outspoken religious views...


22 posted on 08/02/2018 1:20:09 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: shanover

Yes. Brevity is eloquence, thank you.


23 posted on 08/02/2018 1:20:59 PM PDT by OKSooner (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): The 1200 pound gorilla...)
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, Urban is probably an a**hole, but a lot of this is just Millennial Whining. They cry about everything these days...just look at the NFL whiners when they are told to stand for the anthem.


24 posted on 08/02/2018 1:24:11 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: Red Badger

Preparing for football is not meant to be the same as preparing for a dance recital.

Where does this end? Are we gonna put drill sergeants in prison for calling new enlistees “dog face”?


25 posted on 08/02/2018 1:25:14 PM PDT by Tell It Right (Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships.)
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To: centurion316

Pro football perhaps, the National Felon’s League?


26 posted on 08/02/2018 1:26:27 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Red Badger

I don’t think O’Keefe has joined the dark side or even trying to be all inclusive. I think he thinks conservatives hate football because a lot of conservatives are hating the NFL. What he doesn’t know is there are toooooonnnnnnnsssss of conservatives who still love, love, love us some college football. But he’s from NJ, so try telling him there’s a football game that’s not a NLF game.

It’d be like trying to tell a Big 12 fan that it’s possible to have a good defense. :)


27 posted on 08/02/2018 1:29:11 PM PDT by Tell It Right (Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships.)
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To: Reily
It probably would be better for everyone if the NFL did take ownership and make it a true NFL minor league.

Agreed. Return all college sports to club status. Pay coaches like adjunct faculty. Let the pros run their own developmental leagues.

28 posted on 08/02/2018 1:31:35 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: OKSooner

Re: “This might be a story that everyone needs to hear.”

Right, because only hundreds of sports journalists and tort lawyers have been talking about brain injuries and highly aggressive white coaches - for the last 30 years!


29 posted on 08/02/2018 1:55:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: pburgh01

Now sweetie lets not get our panties in a wad.

First let’s settle Kriby the man’s education and football...

Smart was a four-year letterman at defensive back for Georgia and a first-team All-SEC selection as a senior. He finished his career with 13 interceptions, which ranks fourth all-time at Georgia, and led the Bulldogs with six interceptions in 1997 and five in 1998. He also was a four-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.[2] Smart graduated from Georgia in 1999 with a degree in finance. Also 4 year honor student.

Now paying attention. I love the old ball coach and respet him.
This old women has seen a few games, did you know as a quarter back, Spurrier NEVER beat Georgia once. Well of course you didn’t or you wouldn’t have spouted that silly stuff.

Saban, I love him too. See I am an All SEC girl, unless you play my Dawgs then it’s war son and I will hang with the best if you drinking beer and talking trash backed up by facts, a few of you facts are true.

I don’t have a lot of time to educate you on the fine facts of football. So just let me say this...

The Dawgs are coming and we are bringing HELL with us...

BTW check the news today bless your heart you got another Gator arrest today an I believe an AK-45 loaded in the back seat, GOD bless his Mama’s heart.


30 posted on 08/02/2018 2:09:46 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (Thank you Free Republic. Thank you President Donald J Trump, Greatest election Ever.)
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To: ealgeone

“Urban did nothing to help prepare Tebow for the NFL”

And yet he won the Heisman and was drafted in the first round. I guess all those NFL scouts disagree with you.


31 posted on 08/02/2018 2:35:04 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Tell It Right

“Are we gonna put drill sergeants in prison for calling new enlistees “dog face”?”

My Drill Sergeants called me a whole lot worse than that, and I was pretty anonymous. Glad I was not one of the guys they did not like.


32 posted on 08/02/2018 2:38:15 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: MPJackal

No. Only one NFL scout. Everybody saw Tebow as a third round pick. Denver decided to traded picks away to get him in the first round. And the guy who made that call got fired a year later.


33 posted on 08/02/2018 2:40:42 PM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: IrishBrigade

Geez, this again? Tebow was given multiple chances. He just wasn’t a very good NFL quarterback. Watching him throw was painful.

And if he was blackballed by the NFL, why did MLB embrace him? No way any other 28 year old who hadn’t played baseball since high school would have gotten a minor league contract.


34 posted on 08/02/2018 2:51:25 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: discostu

And yet he took a crappy team that looked like it was out of playoff contention and got them there. Even won a playoff game. Did not look like a bad pick then. But then they got Payton. Tim is not in the Payton mold so they went another way. I don’t see how the scout/GM could be blamed for that. But I am not in the NFL. And Brady was a sixth round pick. And if Tim was willing to switch positions he might still be playing.

Point is, I don’t see how you could blame Meyer for that. Tim doesn’t seem to.


35 posted on 08/02/2018 2:53:09 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: zeestephen

uhh... what? Are you suggesting this is a racial thing???


36 posted on 08/02/2018 2:53:36 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Red Badger

I’ve always liked Urban Meyer. The level of detail he went to when grading out the performances of each player in a game impressed me. I thought he was a tremendous coach.


37 posted on 08/02/2018 2:55:10 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: MPJackal

Winning the Heisman and getting drafted has nothing to do with preparing one to play in the NFL. And apparently the NFL scouts were pretty wrong when it cam to Tebow.


38 posted on 08/02/2018 2:55:17 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: MPJackal

His team finished 8-8 with a 3 game losing streak and made the playoffs because the other teams sucked enough to lose the division to an 8-8 team. And won a playoff game against a destroyed defense that got more destroyed by injuries as the game wore on. It was a TERRIBLE draft pick, they wasted 3 draft picks on a guy that started 11 games. 3 draft picks to get a guy in the first round that NOBODY thought was going in the first round (and the first round was almost over by then). They could have waited a couple hours, drafted him with the second round pick (still earlier than projected) they traded away and still had their 3rd and 4th. It was a bad pick in every way.

I don’t blame Meyer. The idea that college coaches are supposed to prepare guys for the NFL is laughable. A college coach’s job is to win college games. If that instill skills into the players that help them in the NFL great, but 90% of their players are never going to the NFL so it’s silly to think they should be getting prepared for it.


39 posted on 08/02/2018 3:10:57 PM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: PGalt

I like Urban, too. I think he’s a fine man. I think everyone needs to put down the torches and pitchforks. I’m a ‘Bama fan (Roll Tide), but I don’t like seeing someone tarred and feathered like this.


40 posted on 08/02/2018 3:18:29 PM PDT by salmon76 (Russia, Russia, Russia => Clinton, Clinton, Clinton)
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