Urban Meyer, DJ Durkin have failed as football coaches and human beings
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...football-coaches-and-human-beings/1001387002/
Urban Meyer and D.J. Durkin are dangling by a thread. One coach far more famous than the other, both irreparably weakened, they are destined to be viewed more as villain than hero as time passes, the power and platform they thought was always going to be theirs disappearing by the day even if they survive and keep their jobs – which they should not.
If they paid attention to their own mighty locker-room bluster about team and family and molding young men in their image, they would have acknowledged their failures and quit by now.But Meyer and Durkin are not the kind of good men they are trying to teach their players to be. They are opportunists seemingly incapable of shame.
What Meyer did was bad. What Durkin didn't do was worse.
Meyer, as sanctimonious a man as exists in college football, has never hesitated to suspend his players for actions as varied as public urination and drunk driving. He also hasn't hesitated to speak out about the transgressions of other coaches.
So, what would that Urban Meyer say about this Urban Meyer?
He’d probably call him a fraud.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...football-coaches-and-human-beings/1001387002/
Urban Meyer and D.J. Durkin are dangling by a thread. One coach far more famous than the other, both irreparably weakened, they are destined to be viewed more as villain than hero as time passes, the power and platform they thought was always going to be theirs disappearing by the day even if they survive and keep their jobs – which they should not.
If they paid attention to their own mighty locker-room bluster about team and family and molding young men in their image, they would have acknowledged their failures and quit by now.But Meyer and Durkin are not the kind of good men they are trying to teach their players to be. They are opportunists seemingly incapable of shame.
What Meyer did was bad. What Durkin didn't do was worse.
Meyer, as sanctimonious a man as exists in college football, has never hesitated to suspend his players for actions as varied as public urination and drunk driving. He also hasn't hesitated to speak out about the transgressions of other coaches.
So, what would that Urban Meyer say about this Urban Meyer?
He’d probably call him a fraud.