And I truly think there are hundred times more of fans like that than the smattering of greedheads. They even fear that somehow Meyer’s health might give him a change of heart about coaching in this Florida pressure cooker.
They throw him get-well bouquets on the messages boards and encourage him to put his life ahead of football. Though is health is a private matter, Gator fans worry about him. So perhaps a UF press release would have been in order. On health matters such as this, however, I think the concerned citizens of Gator Nation are entitled to a little more. “I’m fine,” he apparently told Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun. On the Allstate Sugar Bowl telephone conference, Meyer declined to comment on his health. But we only know what we are told, because Urban has not gone public except an apparent communication with one member of the local media and not responded to queries of others. A couple of inside contacts told both and ESPN that Urban was in no danger. When the news came Sunday that Urban had checked himself into the hospital - first it was said “chest pains” by some and later it was amended by UF spokesman Steve McClain to “symptoms of dehydration” - I immediately flashed back to those stories about stress, as did many others.īits and pieces finally emerged and he was declared okay. Not only has Meyer been known to black out on the sideline in the past, but at least once this season he became woozy during a game and vomited. “Before he had any more outbursts, he had to stop and think about that.” Doctors helped him pinpoint those emotional outbursts - usually, in the fourth quarter - and he began to alter his behavior pattern. During a game against Oregon, in a tense moment or the fourth quarter, he almost passed out. The doctors told Meyer to ‘cool it with the screaming and yelling,’ which he did until he became a head coach at Utah. It turned out to be an arachnoid cyst on his brain, benign, but it also caused severe migraines when aggravated by emotional stress.
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“Since his days when he blacked out and nearly fell while on the sidelines as an assistant at Notre Dame, Meyer had tried to learn how to better control his emotions. Urban’s health was discussed in his book:
The health thing isn’t going away, however, just like the Notre Dame thing didn’t. Believe me, there’s plenty of that going around these days. And if there is anything that will drive him away from Florida as quickly as bad health it’s ingratitude. Some of that abrasiveness is no doubt beginning to wear on Urban. One might think that a 47-7 record by a senior class might buy a large amount of street cred, but with that certain element it doesn’t. There is an element out there that is never satisfied. One of the real dangers is a hard core of greedheads who can never get enough, no matter how good things are around Gainesville. His friends and family are on the record as saying that what will stop Urban from coaching eventually is if football threatens his health, because he has had problems in the past.ĭo I think it is a major concern? No. It is already documented that stress has been Urban’s worst enemy. Now Gator fans have something else to worry about: Meyer’s mental and physical condition. He just recently declared his long-term commitment to UF.