Meyer more cautious with comments

[Mr2Bits]

Florida coach Urban Meyer is learning the hard way that even at booster club functions, sometimes what he says can get blown out of proportion.

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[O-town Gator]

“What happens is you can’t speak anymore,” Meyer said before a speaking engagement with the Broward County Gator Club. “You can’t talk. So everything you say there’s no off the record, there’s no ‘hey we just want to talk about something.’ You can’t have fun. You can’t talk. You know, it’s a shame, but that’s the way it is.”

That’s what happens when you’re a coach that’s in the national eye after winning two BCS titles in the last three seasons. Comments Meyer made about Notre Dame being his “dream job” and questioning whether former players have the right to expect perks after being critical of his program have come back to bite him in recent weeks.

“It’s awful,” Meyer said. “I wish it wasn’t that way, but it is what it is.”

And he can thank the media, the rumor-mongers who have nothing better to do, and those who either spin stories to their own liking or read too much into things for that. It sucks, but what can he do.