Mike Bianchi: From Urban Meyer to Urban Liar to Urban Hypocrite
Coach is practicing recruiting tactics he railed against at ESPN
February 03, 2012|Mike Bianchi, SPORTS COMMENTARY
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He's not just Urban Liar anymore, he's Urban Hypocrite as well.
Seriously, is anybody shocked that new O-Lie-O State coach Urban Meyer is already being accused of being a recruiting snake in the grass as the head coach of the Buckeyes? Two Big Ten coaches -- Michigan State's Mark Dantonio and Wisconsin's Bret Bielema -- publicly accused Meyer of underhanded recruiting tactics after he swooped in and stole top recruits who had already verbally committed to those schools. Dantonio told the Detroit News that Meyer is "unethical" while Bielema told the Sporting News: "I can tell you this, we in the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC -- in any way, shape or form."
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing illegal with what Meyer did. The practice of "flipping" recruits is commonplace in the SEC. However, the Big Ten supposedly has a gentlemen's agreement that coaches don't go after recruits who have verbally committed elsewhere.
My problem with Meyer is just how disingenuous he is. You know, like when claimed he was leaving Florida to "spend more time with his family" and then took a job with ESPN a few weeks later and accepted the Ohio State job a few months later.
Let's not forget what Meyer said last February when he was working for ESPN and was on his high horse about unethical recruiting practices.
"What I've seen the last five years is a complete turn in the integrity of the college coaching profession," Meyer said in a radio interview then. "It's completely turned the other way. Right now, it's not good because the risk-reward is 'have at it, do what you've got to do to get the great player, go win games and at the end of the day we'll find out what happens down the road.' "
Here we are not even one year down the road and already we see Urban Liar for what he truly is:
Urban Hypocrite.
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