Urban Meyer: Why the Florida Gators Are Better Off Without Him

Impossible to believe.

But it's true.

If Urban Meyer has health issues, then he can't be the fierce, go out and get 'em coach that made him the star head coach that he was.

And if he can't be that type of coach, it just isn't going to help Florida any. We all saw that this season.

The other thing about Meyer is he created a gimmick package and a successful one at that—the new version of the triple option. But what happens to gimmicks when other teams see them a few times? They regress to the same struggling offense that lived before.

Sound familiar?

Ron Zook, struggling offense; Urban Meyer, genius, two BCS championships, the best player ever in college football and then...wait, yes—a struggling 2010 offense.

It's not just the triple option. It's every new package.

Take the Wildcat formation. The Dolphins used to run rings around opponents with it.

Anybody see that still happening now?

No, because defenses are Smart.

Like Kirby.

He was the one who killed the triple option. In the 2009 SEC title game, he created the brilliant strategy that ended it.

Put one man on tight end Aaron Hernandez. That one man follows Hernandez everywhere he goes.

Same with the running back.

With Tim Tebow, he put three guys to follow him.

Four of the other six try to crash through the line of scrimmage and blow up the play before it ever gets started.

The other two (Kareem Jackson and Javier Arenas) stay back deep just in case Florida decides to try something creative, like a rollout bomb.

But since Steve Addazio is such an idiot, he refused to adjust and ditch the option. Since Smart knew Addazio was such an unaggressive guy and that he was never going to change his strategy, in time he had the two DBs slowly walk up closer and closer to the line of scrimmage.

As dumb as Addazio is, Smart knew he had to try a pass sometime. Even Addazio isn't that stupid. So Smart put one of the two DBs on Aaron Hernandez and Deonte Thompson. With a blitz, Tebow threw for Hernandez. Except that Arenas had dropped back at the last second for the easy pick. Game over.

So, yes, it is on Addazio. But it was a joint effort. Addazio plus a genius DC equals death.

Death of a game, of a great playing career, of a season.

Of a great head coaching career.

Maybe Will Muschamp will invent something crazy. But if he's the intelligent 39-year-old man I think he is, he'll go to a pro-style offense and let John Brantley throw bullets all over the Southeast.

It wasn't just Brantley. Trey Burton and Jordan Reed had nowhere near the amount of success that Tebow had.

Obviously, that's because Tebow is Tebow.

But the difference should not have been anywhere near that glaring.

The difference was not only like day and night; it was like midday and midnight.

With the talent Florida has, it should have been more like sunset and midnight.

Goodbye, Coach Meyer. Gator Nation loves you. But now we also see exactly why you wanted to leave after last year.

You're one of the best coaches ever, and I will go to my own grave believing that (and I'm 16).

But it's best to move on now. Get healthy, enjoy life, have fun watching your daughters play D-I volleyball, have fun watching your son play baseball. I wish you and all of your children, nothing but the best. Have fun not being a coach and chilling out for a while. If you want to coach again, make sure you're healthy; I'm not stopping you.

Just don't coach anywhere in the SEC, unless it's at Florida.

And a friendly tip of advice: Lose the idiot Steve Addazio if you're ever going to coach again.