FIRST THINGS FIRST
I can't wish any harder for the best with respects to the Meyers family. My Prayers are with him and his family.
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Urban was diagnosed with a non-Cancerous growth on his brain while an Assistant at Notre Dame. It was rule non life threatening and non career threatening at that time.
Since then he has served as Head Coach at three schools, reaching Florida where he won 2x NCs, had one Heismand winner, and built a very hungry fan-base.
CUM's stress level has sky-rocketed, and we all know that stress is one of those things that can serve as a trigger for things like illness.
I'm not saying, because I don't know, and we can't say, because we don't know. However sports are quirky in it beliefs, superstitions, and habits. And broaching this topic in the right spirit is not out of reason. For instance;
If you are on the cover of Sports Illustrated, how do you perform next time out? Why do fans fear weak opponents just because their teams plays them the week before the Big Game? Why is it that only a kicker can be iced with a time-out? There is just enough truth to surrounding them to keep the belief alive.
So playing this silly game, how do we rule out that the added pressure of coaching against CNS did not contribute to Tubberville losing his job, and Fulmer, and Croom, and Orgeron? And if losing one's job is among the most stressful things to happen, fighting to keep one is also stressful. And when you spend a year reading the writing on the wall, that too is a lot of stress. So can we say that there were NO ill effects in coaching against CNS? And if we must admit that there were some impacts, then what would those impacts do to a man with a growth on his brain?
Again, I'm not saying, because I don't know, and we can't say, because we don't know. But equally we can't say yet that it is not the case, and that is a really odd, unique, (and sadly) interesting angle to all this.