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Former Players Allege Physical and Mental Abuse by Urban Meyer in Undercover Videos
In an unrelated incident, in undercover videos released by Veritas on Aug. 2, several former players at the University of Florida Gators team, which Meyer coached, claimed that there was a history of physical and mental abuse at the alleged direction of Meyer. The videos were filmed in 2017 and 2018 at various locations across the country.
Xavier Nixon, who played at the University of Florida for coach Meyer, said that another player, Omarius Hines, was injured during a weight training session that Meyer oversaw dubbed, “The Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
“They had a guy’s quads explode in the weight room on the leg press during what we call the Valentine’s Day Massacre. You basically do everything until failure and the lactic acid had built up in his legs so much that his quads literally exploded, they ruptured, and he had to be taken out in an ambulance.” “Quads” refers to the quadriceps femoris muscle group in the legs.
Josh Evans, who played safety for the University of Florida from 2009 to 2012, said he saw the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
“We had a guy on a leg press machine… Guy had probably about six plates on each side of the leg press… So [the coach] blew the whistle as he goin’, and the whole team kinda came over there like go, pushing, pushing, pushing. He got to about 38 [reps,] blew, the sides of his quads just erupted, boom. Legs, screaming, had to take him to the hospital,” he told Veritas.
What’s more, Green said there were drill where players “would literally get like choked out… the whole idea behind it… you’d have to wrestle, and it wasn’t like normal wrestling,” according to Veritas.
“It was like you both stand up… and there was and there was this one mat… and you gotta crawl across the mat. These guys on top of you. It’s his job to not let you get across the mat, and they literally get up on there and choke you. And you might go to sleep… It’s extremely unnecessary. We don’t talk about the stuff we used to do is not normal, at all. It just wasn’t,” Green said.
In an unrelated incident, in undercover videos released by Veritas on Aug. 2, several former players at the University of Florida Gators team, which Meyer coached, claimed that there was a history of physical and mental abuse at the alleged direction of Meyer. The videos were filmed in 2017 and 2018 at various locations across the country.
Xavier Nixon, who played at the University of Florida for coach Meyer, said that another player, Omarius Hines, was injured during a weight training session that Meyer oversaw dubbed, “The Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
“They had a guy’s quads explode in the weight room on the leg press during what we call the Valentine’s Day Massacre. You basically do everything until failure and the lactic acid had built up in his legs so much that his quads literally exploded, they ruptured, and he had to be taken out in an ambulance.” “Quads” refers to the quadriceps femoris muscle group in the legs.
Josh Evans, who played safety for the University of Florida from 2009 to 2012, said he saw the “Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
“We had a guy on a leg press machine… Guy had probably about six plates on each side of the leg press… So [the coach] blew the whistle as he goin’, and the whole team kinda came over there like go, pushing, pushing, pushing. He got to about 38 [reps,] blew, the sides of his quads just erupted, boom. Legs, screaming, had to take him to the hospital,” he told Veritas.
What’s more, Green said there were drill where players “would literally get like choked out… the whole idea behind it… you’d have to wrestle, and it wasn’t like normal wrestling,” according to Veritas.
“It was like you both stand up… and there was and there was this one mat… and you gotta crawl across the mat. These guys on top of you. It’s his job to not let you get across the mat, and they literally get up on there and choke you. And you might go to sleep… It’s extremely unnecessary. We don’t talk about the stuff we used to do is not normal, at all. It just wasn’t,” Green said.
