Urban Meyer Criticizes FSU's Handling Of Jameis Winston

Urban Meyer, who had nearly forty players arrested while he was in charge of the Florida Gators, went on Bill O'Reilly's Fox News television show to advertise his new book about how to instill discipline and culture. I mean, is this real life? How in the world did a publisher buy this? That would be like Ray Lewis writing a book and saying he was dressed too well to commit a murder. 

Wait, that happened too?

Bernie Madoff's pyramid of financial success is going to be New York Times bestseller too. 

During the interview Meyer, who once claimed he only recruited the top 1% of the top 1% at Florida and then fled the Gator locker room because he was afraid of the felonious culture he'd enabled, explained how he instills discipline in his team -- stop laughing -- and how important it is for players to comport themselves off the field -- again, stop laughing.

And as part of that bullshit discussion on discipline O'Reilly brings up Jameis Winston and the following ensues. 

O'Reilly: "Look at Jameis Winston down in Florida State. He steals some crab legs or something. But the guy's a brilliant quarterback so they let it go down there. I don't think you would have let it go, right?

Urban: "It would have been hard to let that go."

O'Reilly: "Alright, so you would have gotten rid of him."

You can watch the entire interview here. 

This is vintage Urban Meyer. 

He's on the No Spin Zone and he's spinning away, just totally dishonest. Come on Bill O'Reilly, you're always bragging about what an incredible interviewer you are and how you get to the truth on issues and you asked the weakest questions known to man here. If you want to hit the Jameis Winston angle with Urban Meyer, hit it. 

It's easy. You have an entire staff of producers who will write the question for you in the teleprompter, this is a cake job for you. Question: Jameis Winston is a talented quarterback who got away with a lot at Florida State, would you have kept him on your team?

That's not a hard question to ask and it requires a definite answer. Of course Urban could weasel his way out of the question by saying, "I try not to comment on another team's discipline issues because I've found that you need to have all the facts to be fair to the player and your team."

But he didn't say that, he actually basked in the reflected hot air windbag of praise from O'Reilly and implied that he would have kicked Jameis off the team. 

So O'Reilly asks an awful question, then he takes a tremendous leap after getting a virtual non answer, "It would have been hard to let that go." And he doesn't follow up with anything?

URBAN YOU LET AARON HERNANDEZ SHOOT TWO DUDES AND KEEP PLAYING FOR YOU.

One of your players texted, "Time to die, bitch," to a woman he was beating up and you kept him on the team. 

You let Percy Harvin choke his position coach in front of the entire team! And he was a team leader! 

But it would have been hard to let it go if a guy stole crab legs?

Come the fuck on.

But O'Reilly doesn't mention any of that, instead he says that Urban would have kicked Jameis off the team even though Urban didn't say that and Meyer sits there stone faced and doesn't comment on O'Reilly's comment.  Now, arguably, if someone says something you disagree with in an interview you should stop your interviewer and point out that you didn't say what they said you said, but Urban doesn't do that.

For instance, if I was on the O'Reilly Factor and Bill tried to spin me and said, "Okay, you hate chik fil a," and it wasn't true, do you think I'm going to let that lie stand?

Hell no.  

So did Urban tell O'Reilly off camera that he would have kicked Jameis off the team? (It's likely these guys talked beforehand). Or is O'Reilly just such a bad interviewer that he made a wild leap in characterization based on a non-answer and didn't even require a comment?

Bill, you got spun in the no spin zone. 

That's the only rule that exists on your TV show. Don't get spun. And Meyer crossed you over and 360 dunked on you. That's like a stripper having sex in the champagne room, you just can't stand for it, that's the only rule that can't be broken. You got spun, son.  

How much of a hypocrite is Urban Meyer? Hell, he's got me on the side of #FSUTwitter for once. God forbid, that's what Urban Meyer does, he's such a complete fraud that he makes two groups who hate each other allies. Meyer's so oily and unctuous that he's got me feeling dirty just writing about him. At this rate, by November I'm going to be doing ride alongs with the Tallahassee police department.

"Dead body in a club? Murder one? Hell, put the body in the back of the cruiser. We'll go dump it in the bay. Clemson's this weekend."