Some coaches love to look smart. They get all gooey inside when appearing more radiant than the next guy. They embrace humility in public and then when the cameras are off chuckle about disemboweling the coach on the other sideline or out-filming him in the film room.
Some coaches are the most egotistical, glory seeking people you will ever meet.
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| Chris Leak is the starting QB for the No. 2 team in the country, but his Heisman chances are gone. (Getty Images) |
Excellent coach, decent guy, kinda smirky. He coaches the rapidly ascending Florida Gators, a team that has a good chance to go undefeated this year.
They might be the most purely talented team in college football. They might have more NFL players on that roster than even Ohio State or Texas.
Yet there is no better example of a coach wanting to look like Stephen Hawking at the expense of his own players than what Meyer is doing now. Namely, Meyer is building his clip file and cameo highlights on network television at the expense of Chris Leak, the most under-appreciated player in recent college football history.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Meyer is screwing Leak out of a potential Heisman so Meyer can look like he's the smartest guy in the room.
Make no mistake about it. Meyer is making quarterback Tim Tebow -- the backup, the rock star, the television series, the prophet, the galactic emperor -- the star of this Gators team while diminishing Leak.
Meyer is using a crowd pleasing, freakish, circus-like, two-quarterback, ham-hocked, stunt-fest, LeakBow offense, and in the process undercutting Leak and ending any chance Leak has to sneak into the Heisman race.
Leak will be the only guy in the history of the NCAA to lose the Heisman to his backup.
Man, that's just rich.
Leak is doomed when it comes to the Heisman. Finis. Kaput. Why would anyone vote for Leak when the perception around the country is Florida runs a two-quarterback system?
I have never seen a talented senior quarterback, who has never been arrested, never publicly mouthed off, always the good soldier, treated this shabbily by his coach. It is awful what Meyer is doing to Leak. No amount of positive pub or Jeremy Foley bullying of the media will change that.
