Almost immediately after Urban Meyer went off on a reporter following Wednesday’s practice, there were calls from media members around the country for the Florida head coach to apologize for his verbal “lambasting” of Jeremy Fowler of the Orlando Sentinel.
Three days later, Meyer has done just that. Although not in the public manner as some of the more misguided had suggested.
According to GatorBait.com by way of our buddy SportsByBrooks, Meyer apologized to Fowler during a private 22-minute meeting following practice today. Meyer approached Fowler after the spring session and the two held what Fowler labeled as a “constructive... conversation” at midfield.
“I won’t go into the details of the conversation,” Fowler said, “but I would say that Urban did apologize. And I feel like as a work-related conversation it was constructive.
“I tried to explain to him where I was coming from. And try to explain to him how I do my job. I think he understands that and it was constructive, and that’s all I really want to say. I don’t want to get into all the details, but he was definitely receptive to what I had to say. I’m glad he approached me and talked to me about it constructive.”
For all of the flack Meyer took for the incident -- and some suggesting that he was/is a ticking time bomb, even after his sabbatical -- it was a classy move by the head coach to seek out Fowler and hash the thing out privately.
Of course, the whole brouhaha could’ve been been avoided if Meyer had taken the same private tack with Fowler from the beginning, but that’s neither here nor there.