Did Urban Meyer really have a heart attack?
According to ex-Gator running back Emmanual Moody, previous Florida Head Coach Urban Meyer suffered a heart attack after the SEC Championship game in 2009, just before the first time he stepped down at Florida. Moody went on to say…
Moody: “I didn’t know what to think of it. Personally, for me, I was more worried about his health than anything else, because I saw him the night before and he looked like he was about to have a heart attack, which he did have a heart attack later that night.
The condition Meyer suffered was actually an esophageal spasm. All the same to me, though, I’m not down with heart attacks or heart spasms. It’s clear he had his reasons to walk away from the game for a second time this year, though.
Clowney claims he’ll be eligible
Early reports ran rapid throughout the web that No. 1 national recruit Jadeveon Clowney may not make grade to get into South Carolina next year. The rumors came from a New York Times article regarding Clowney’s academic record. Troy Davis, head coach of Hargrave Military Academy, a postgraduate school in Virginia, told the Times he reviewed Clowney’s transcript and felt it compared to a player who would not meet NCAA academic requirements.
Clowney has different feelings on the matter: “I will qualify. No doubts. Everybody know that.”
I wouldn’t exactly doubt him. It’s hard to really doubt anything that goes on in college football today.
Montana to Montana
Nate Montana, the son of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana, will take his talents to Missoula. Not exactly South Beach, but Nate wasn’t exactly his dad, to say the least, while at Notre Dame. A walk on quarterback for the Irish, Nate will apparently be a walk on for the University of Montana next year.
Already enrolled in classes, Montana has already met their scholarship limits, so Montana will need to walk on. Last year with the Irish, Montana threw for 116 yards on 9 of 18 passing and an interception.
An early stage for Maryland and Miami coaches
Come Labor Day 2011, fans of the Terp’s and Hurricanes will either love or hate what they see from their new coaching staffs, in the same game. That’s because new Miami Head Coach Al Golden and UConn Head Coach Randy Edsall will square off in the first game of the 2011 season.
Monday, ACC schedules were released with the two paired off in a Labor Day, ESPN season opener. The new car smell and warm fuzzy feeling a new head coach brings to a program will surely end for one team right from the get go.
The game could have had even more fuel added to the fire if last year’s Miami coach, Randy Shannon, would have accepted the defensive coordinator position offered by Edsall. Reports are that Shannon turned the job down.
More reasons than health turned Meyer away from coaching
It wasn’t just health concerns that turned Florida Head Coach Urban Meyer away from coaching; the job itself turned him away. In an interview with 1070 The Fan in Indianapolis, Meyer ripped the profession, the NCAA and the lost integrity of the coaching job.
He compared the job to the “Wild, Wild West were anything goes.”
Meyer wasn’t exactly shy to give his feelings and knew he’d take some backlash for expressing his thoughts, but as he put it:
“I’m probably going to get criticized for saying a few things but I’m good. I’m no longer a football coach and that had a part to do with why I stepped away.
Cam Newton deals roll in
As expected, last year’s Heisman Trophy winner Cameron Newton has pulled in an endorsement deal. Also as expected, it was no small potatoes. Newton signed the largest endorsement deal ever for a NFL rookie, a multiyear contract with Under Armour.
The dollars and cents haven’t been released, but it’s supposedly bigger than Reggie Bush’s $1 million per year contract Bush signed with Adidas.
Maybe with the first check he receives, Newton can begin to pay Auburn back for covering his butt throughout last year’s pay-for-play fiasco.
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