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Will Muschamp, or someone who supports him, must be running a PR campaign against Urban Meyer. Someone is working very hard to get sportswriters to explain away Muschamp's lousy record last year -- and to set the expectations bar very low going into this next season -- at Meyer's expense. Three articles, which all make the same whining, gossipy claims, simply don't appear in one week all by themselves, out of thin air. Too big a coincidence. Somebody is pushing this 'Meyer-was-really-the-devil' storyline hard.

The only person who benefits from this recent media fascination with what Urban Meyer was doing 2 years ago, at least most directly, is Will Muschamp. Muschamp, after all, was famous as an Elite-Head-Coach-In-Waiting for most of his career -- the best prepared assistant to become a Head Coach in America. So how do you explain Florida's 6 losses last season? Uh, you blame the last guy. [Worked for Obama] He 'broke' the football team -- winning those National Championships, all of a sudden like that, was hard on the program. Why, it's a miracle Will was able to win any games at all, as screwed up as things were when Urban left.

The bad news for UFM and tOSU is that rumblings of impropriety are not what you're looking for when your program's already on the NCAA's watch list. There's no good coming to tOSU out of any of this. The good news is that, at some point, the Short-Attention-Span-Theater enthusiasts who manage clowns like Hayes and Whitley will ask them to dig through someone else's trash. They'll tire of Urban and want to move on. And, as SEC-aficianados, it won't be hard for them to find even bigger, deeper, smellier piles of garbage.

This is kInda amusing...you know in the whole hell hath no fury like a "woman/gatornation/SECfanboy" scorned kind of sense.