Remember that whole leave of absence thing for Urban Meyer?
Forget about it. Put it out of your mind. Pretend it never happened.
Speaking to reporters at halftime of the Florida-South Carolina basketball game — the first time he’s spoken publicly since the Sugar Bowl — the Gators head coach said that, while he’ll take some time off in February for medical tests, he plans on coaching the Gators from the start of spring practice.
Meyer did allow, though, that he has to “change some things” before spring ball starts on March 17.
“I’m going to have a series of tests in February to try to figure this thing out,” Meyer said according to the Gainesville Sun. “I have to take some time off. I’ve been instructed to by my bride and my boss. I have to change some things. That’s obvious.”
Meyer, who said he’s gained about 20 pounds since resigning/going on a leave of absence in late December, said he keeps “hearing about this time off” thing, but, after trying “it for a day and a half”, it “didn’t work out.”
So, yeah, Meyer will be back well before the start of the regular season. We think. Probably.
Alright now, with that settled, can we all move on? There’s nothing to see here. Please disperse…
It is giggles day on the football sites!! First, Rex Ryan in a Batman suit and now a little Frank Drebin LOL
Nothing to see here … uh-huh … that Ambien is wicked stuff
Interesting progression of thought there. Meyer realized he was screwing up his health with the intensity and time he put into work, so he decided to retire before it killed him. The next day at practice he realized he loves his job too much to ever fully retire, so he said to himself, “okay, I’ll take time off, get healthier, and get back to work, hopefully refreshed and re-energized.” Then he took a little bit of that time off, realized he HATES it because he’s a workaholic, and decided to get back to work ASAP.
Well, as a Gator, I gotta say I’m supremely happy and relieved that Meyer will continue to be our HC next year, but I hope it isn’t to the detriment of his health and well-being.
Yeah, so much for putting family first.
When he has a massive heart attack and dies on the sidelines, it will be well-deserved, and none but the Gator Nation shall miss him (including his wife and kids, since they haven’t seen him in years anyway).
Either he was lying about the whole ordeal or he’ll stroke out soon… truthfully, if he does have these health issues then he is a total freakin idiot for this ridiculous decision hes made and pretty much deserves anything and everything that happens to him
And did he tell his daughter…sorry, you only got your daddy back for a month….
In other news, I have Meyer in my celebrity death pool this year…
Ooo, you guys are cold! And I thought I didn’t like Meyer! I’ve actually developed a little sympathy for him.
He suffers from stress/anxiety issues–not unusual in his profession. That could cause chest pains. He said when he “retired” that his condition wasn’t life-threatening. After losing the championship game, he was probably agitated and took Ambien to get some sleep. Later, he tried to get up and collapsed. His wife couldn’t rouse him and called 911. What you hear on the 911 call is consistent w/Ambien side-effects. Then they made up that dehydration nonsense.
My theory is that since the Ambien episode scared the crap out of the family, the wife demanded he retire, and he agreed. Then when he talked to his players, he realized he couldn’t do it. So he was caught between his love for football and one very pissed-off wife. What irks me is all the bs drama they threw into what was probably a pretty simple story.
I wish the guy well and hope he learns to manage his stress or it will become life-threatening. And I hope his wife understands that pressuring a stressed person to slow down only adds more stress.
All of this is just for attention since they were beaten by Alabama and lost the attention.
Deb-
It wasn’t Ambien. He had choked on Tim Tebow’s tampon. They asked him to retire from Tebow, not from coaching football. He tried, but he told Tebow “I can’t quit you”.
The ESPN retirement interview was still the greatest college football recruiting infomercial in history.