Defensive coordinator Teryl Austin was a Steve Addazio hire. The two worked together at Syracuse, and Austin said Addazio called him a few days before National Signing Day to gauge his interest in the job in case it came open. This means Meyer and Addazio knew George Edwards might be planning to skip town before signing day.
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When I saw this on the Senator's blog this morning...
…I knew it wouldn’t be long before it was posted on here. Now let’s just wait on the trolls…
Bingo.
That was the key part of the story for me.
by vineyarddawg on Feb 18, 2010 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
I liked that too, Mr. Sanchez . . .
. . . until I remembered we were 1-2 against Ron Zook.
Like hailtogeorgia, I’m waiting for the trolls. I thought about unbanning theboneman just to see what he’d say now that we have mainstream media confirmation that Teryl Austin admits to being contacted about the impending vacancy before national signing day. I’m anxiously awaiting the apologies from the Florida fans who accused me of reading too much into the known facts.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Feb 18, 2010 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
The main question is, what difference would it make?...
Was Edwards little more than a name plate seat filler? He apparently didn’t recruit, and if kids didn’t care about Meyer’s psuedo retirement, would they have cared about which former NFL positional assistant was their DC?
It may have made absolutely no difference...
but to me, that is not the point of contention here. Meyer and Addazio knew that Edwards would most likely be gone after signing day and said nothing (at least publicly). That act is not any less unethical because it didn’t have any effect on the signing class (which is speculation – the effect on the signing class, not the unethical act). A drunk driver is no less wrong for driving drunk if he gets home without killing anyone. I’m not likening recruiting to someone getting killed by a drunk driver. I’m saying the act is wrong regardless of whether or not it made a difference in the signing class. The Florida fans that came around here last time trolling in defense of Meyer/Addazio/Edwards made the same point you did, which is purely speculative. Yet none of them that I remember seemed to care that it was unethical.
by marktheshark on Feb 18, 2010 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
yes, how many recruits he got or didnt get is not the issue. It's about the ethics of it.
the issue is the staff knew edwards was not going to be around and sat on it until after signing day. That, plus Urban’s flip floping on being a coach, or not being a coach, or being a coach, or not, leads to a general sense of a lack of integrity amongst the coaching staff.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Now we know how the Gator faithful are handling the news:
Also included is confirmation that George Edwards’ departure was an open secret around the Gator offices, something reflected in recruits’ comments about him not being particularly involved in recruiting during his single, unremarkable month in the job. HURR FLORIDA DONE LIED TO RECRUITS AGIN. Possibly, though the hiring of NFL-type Austin is at least a sop for those recruits who liked Edwards’ NFL cred. We never said we were trustworthy. We just said we’d get you to the NFL. Maybe. Hey, look over there! (Recruits rising five-star rising senior at your same position without telling you.)
That’s Spencer Hall’s take, and no one represents the Florida fan base better than Spencer, but we can expect the same Gator fans who previously said “Kyle, you have no basis for believing Urban Meyer knew George Edwards was leaving” to pick up the meme and now claim that, well, yeah, Urban Meyer knew George Edwards was leaving, but it was all right, because it was an open secret!
Speaking as someone who rarely uses all-caps, never uses the guttural utterance “hurr,” and can spell “again” (read: as a representative Georgia fan who does not fit the stereotypes of Georgia fans with which Florida fans flatter themselves, much as we use the mullet-jort-didn’t-follow-football-before-1990 stereotype about them), I have to say that Florida coaches wooing recruits aren’t the only Gator boosters using “Hey! Look over there!” as a debate strategy. Well obfuscated avoided about-faced played, sirs.
Go 'Dawgs!
I think the defense is interesting:
“Sure we lied,” it goes, “but (1) the recruits knew it, (2) we’re liars, so lying is what we do; and (3) we’ll burn these recuits, too.”
by first and thom on Feb 18, 2010 5:24 PM EST up reply actions
Well...
This would seem to prove what you speculated previously about the situation…I’m sure TKK can provide quotes if I’m wrong here, but I don’t remember ever saying that this didn’t happen, merely that it was speculative, and that you guys were making more out of this than need be. I think the issue most of us took with TKKs last article about this was more than anything the insidious attacks on Meyer (calling him the worst person in CFB, mocking his commitment to his family etc).
I can admit that I’m not excited about this news, but I stand by what I said earlier. Oddly enough, it seems that the UGA message boards find this news to be infinitely bigger than any other site I’ve seen….
You weren't the one I had in mind, Cardsfan25
Your criticism is a valid one, which is why I apologized for some of the ways in which I described Urban Meyer. (I don’t think I called him the worst person in college football, but, if I did, I regret it. I think “insidious attacks” is a bit of an overstatement—-I called him two or three bad names in a lengthy, meticulous posting—-but those animadversions I did employ were overly nasty.)
The general consensus among Florida fans seemed to be that I pieced it together on flimsy evidence, a position that has now been refuted by the discovery of additional facts. I would agree that Georgia fans are the only ones giving this story its due, but, now that we have confirmation from the new defensive coordinator that I was exactly correct, the fact that we’re the only ones talking about it reflects well upon us and poorly upon those who are ignoring a legitimate story. If Lane Kiffin had done it, rather than Urban Meyer, it would be all anyone was discussing.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Feb 19, 2010 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
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