Urban Meyer Cheated Anyways

If anyone remembers the day after Lane Kiffin took the job at the University of Tennessee Urban Meyers accused him of a recruiting violation. Oh the SEC, they hate each other so much. So when Kiffin celebrated a recruit he won over Florida at a Tennessee football luncheon even though Urban Meyer "cheated" it wouldn't seem to be such a big deal.

Thats why when the Florida press release came out I had to cringe a little. "There was no rule violation and we have confirmed this with the Southestern Conference, It is obvious that Coach Kiffin doesn’t know that there is not a rule precluding phone contact with a prospect during an official visit on another campus during a contact period...are very disappointed with him..." Blah blah blah.

Lane Kiffin didn't do a damn thing wrong.

Urban pulled a classic punk move: throw the first slap, get slapped back and run to the nearest authority figure to tattle. The worst part is now ESPN is going to cover the shit out of this for the next three weeks. If you're not immediately throwing mud at Urban Meyer, Les Miles or Nick Saban and you are a new head coach in the SEC you suck. I'm still waiting for a shot at Alabama, Chizik.

It would seem that Florida has a good enough football team to settle things on the field, remember when Georgia did the amazing celebration dance after their first touchdown against Alabama? Then what happened? Alabama spanked em back on the field next year. That's college football for you.

When Rich Rodriguez tried to steal an Ohio State recruit last year, the Big Ten's "Gentleman Agreement," to not steal recruits from other Big Ten programs was brought up in an interview with Tressel. He responded "I guess it only counts between gentlemen." Superb. That's college football, shots between rivals that don't involve stuffy athletic directors.

This year when rivals USC played UCLA in the rose bowl stadium, UCLA was the "away" team. But they wanted to revive a tradition where both teams wore home uniforms. They did and were charged a timeout per half, so Pete Carrol called a useless timeout at the beginning of each half to even things out. That's college football.

If Urban Meyer was in Carrol's situation he would have had the law students looking for a way to have another timeout taken from them, maybe even the review flag. How many luncheons with the football boosters following signing day involved a shot at the Rivals? Or a comment about a four star recruit stolen from a in-conference team at the last moment? For a team coming off a national championship I would expect a little bit more.