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Yeah, I caught that too... especially paid attention the minute he started talking about things he wasn't proud of, didn't want his kids to know or do.I don't know if anyone else caught it but they interviewed a player in the third episode, Carl Johnson. He said something along the lines of he "beat people up and he would never tell kids to do that". I wasnt familiar with him, and he looked so effeminate and defeated that I had to look him up.
Apparently he beat up his girlfriend too while a player. He looked much more aggressive back then. It's seems like he's matured and feels bad about things he's done in his life but he made it seem like Meyer was at fault. It was just slipped in there and it jumped out at me that they let that fly with no explanation.
I mean Siler was like.. "so I punched him in the face" and then grinned like a kid at christmas. He owned it and didn't blame anyone.
This is the other thing I thought about while watching the episodes and because I had already read the Part I (and I think II) articles. Those articles talked about the specific type of players Napier seems to be targeting for recruitment: talented players that are leaders with character (additionally, there have been LOTS of articles about him trying to get kids from stable homes, whether single or dual parent). Swamp Kings had me comparing that to Meyers' teams. Meyers was obviously recruiting HIGHLY talented players, but it also seems that there was a liberal amount of looking for kids from broken homes that had outsized aggression that he hoped to harness on the field... and he did, to an extent, but it spilled OFF the field (and in the locker room) too.
I've been saying this for the better part of a decade now, but this is where ANY current or future UF HC is going to have a problem. UF admin flat out wouldn't allow the last couple of coaches to bring "Meyers type" kids in (even if they'd cleared NCAA), and with Napier, I think he's clearly dismissing 4* and 5* talent that other schools like UGA are still fine with letting in to their esteemed institution of higher learning.