Urban Meyer Fails to Call Audible, Gets Sidelined by Buckeyes

18 years into the 21st century, how can anyone not know this is the Information Age?

Especially public figures.

Damn near every move or comment they make is noted and/or recorded by somebody somewhere.

Thus, it boggles the mind that dudes and dudettes with that sorta prominence are oblivious to the reality that fact checkers are everywhere.

 

Urban Meyer has been in the public eye since the turn of this century. Dude got his first head coaching job at Bowling Green in 2001 when the Falcons plucked him from Notre Dame's coaching staff.

His entire career's been spent around college students. He had to see the second-screen phenomena from its beginnings. He uses social media as a recruiting tool, as all coaches do.

 

Did Meyer's meteoric rise to coaching a two-time national title program in Florida fool him into thinking his glass house was impervious to thrown stones?

• He saw no consequences from 30 Gator players being arrested,
• None of whom were Aaron Hernandez, who then went on to do unspeakable things.

Did then-Ohio State prez Gordon Gee reinforce Meyer's faux veneer of invulnerability by having Groucho Marx as a role model?

 

Whatever, dude now knows that words are like bullets. Once they're on their way, they're not coming back, and a whole lotta stuff's gonna happen that can't be undone.

Plus, if they're screen-grabbable by a between-jobs sportswriter, so much the worse:

 

Information gets out in the Information Age.

How could Meyer do the dunce thing by denying he knew about it when Smith's been on his staff forever and the same damn thing's happened before?

How could he think any comment he made to the contrary wouldn't cause bad stuff to happen to him?

 

 

Misplaced loyalty to friends was never cool.

There's no such thing as a blind eye anymore. Too many screens.

Not to mention the growing awareness that domestic abuse is just wrong.