Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer had some choice words for his old offensive coordinator and current Texas head coach, Tom Herman, and Meyer’s replacement at Florida and current South Carolina head coach, Will Muschamp:
Stop whining about the players you inherited from the previous head coach.
Reports Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports:
Meyer said it drives him “insane” when coaches blame players they inherited from a previous staff.
The coach particularly took issue with Tom Herman at Texas and Will Muschamp, formerly at Florida and now at South Carolina.
Meyer pointed to a statement made Saturday by Herman (his former offensive coordinator at Ohio State) not being able to “sprinkle fairy dust” on the Longhorns team he inherited from Charlie Strong (Meyer’s former defensive coordinator at Florida) following a loss to Maryland.
Meyer also said Muschamp “blamed us for Florida,” referring to a perceived lack of talent left for Muschamp when Meyer departed before the 2011 season.
“C’mon man. I don’t know where that came from,” Meyer told CBS Sports. “It’s like a new generation of excuse. [Herman] said, ‘I can’t rub pixie dust on this thing.’ He got a dose of reality. Maryland just scored 51 points on you.”…
The full quote by Herman in Saturday’s postgame: “If we all thought that we were going to come in here and in nine months sprinkle some fairy dust on this team and think that we’ve arrived then we’re wrong.”
“Players read that,” Meyer continued.
It will be interesting to see if Herman and/or Muschamp respond to Meyer’s criticism.
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