Urban Myer - Favoritism in Columbus like Florida Showing?
Feb 25, 2016, 2:05 PM
The Sporting News came out with a blistering report about the culture Urban Meyer left behind at Florida, according to former players of his. Take all their claims with as much suspicion and doubt as you'd like, since former players of a coach that leaves unexpectedly aren't going to be singing praises very often (and if they are, no website doing an "investigation" is going to be listening), but there's a central theme of player favoritism that's hard to ignore there.
We're in no position to determine the veracity of these former players' claims, particularly this "Circle of Trust" (Jack Byrnes, unavailable for comment) where players received the best treatment. Meyer said he'd never heard of it, leading to a situation where either he's lying or all the former players are lying or both are and they've all got an incentive to mislead and nobody's presenting evidence either way and it's already shaping up to be a nightmare. So whether or not these are true accusations is, barring a recantation from one of the two sides, impossible.
What we do know, however, is that the seeds of this alleged preferential treatment are already being planted in Columbus.