I don't know if this was ever posted but after the draft we had it's worth looking at again.
http://www.bostonsportsmedia.com/arc...gator_land.php
Florida’s Urban Meyer, on what he gleaned from Bill Belichick on the coach’s pre-Draft visit to Gainesville:
“I love telling this story because I love the guy and I don’t really know him. About a month and a half ago I get a phone call and he says “Hi, this Coach Bill Belichick,” and I’m thinking it’s one of my friends and I’m about ready to go, “Yeah, this is Pete Rose.” And it really was him. He started asking about some of our players and said, ‘Well, I’d really like to come down and visit with you about your offense and about some of the players getting ready for the draft.” And I said, sure, I’d love to have you. I go, ‘Wow, a great opportunity to visit with the best coach going right now.’
So he came down and we started to talking to him. The one thing about Bill Belichick . . . if you think about his teams – I did watch the Super Bowl (despite not being an NFL fan) – and I watched the New England Patriots when I got the chance. But more importantly I like to read about what’s going on. The one thing about Bill Belichick’s team, the New England Patriots, there are no issues. You never hear about a guy from the Patriots getting in trouble on Main Street. You watch them play and you don’t see them do those silly things after a touchdown. They go hug their teammates. It’s the best team in all of professional sports. Think about that. They are the best – I don’t care basketball – I’ll fight ya and argue on that – but they’re the best team going.
Why are they the best team? Who’s their superstar? Tom Brady? Tom Brady is not a superstar, but he’s a great football player that raises the level of play of everyone around him. Tedy Bruschi. . . he’s not a superstar. What is he? He’s a great leader.
So Bill Belichick is sitting there and he wants to talk offense and different things and I keep asking about
: ‘Coach, tell me about motivation. Tell me about discipline. Tell me about building a team. Tell me about teamwork. Tell me about attitude.’
And you can tell he’s getting a little upset with me because all he wants to do is draw circles on the board and talk about our players that they’re thinking about drafting. Finally I ask him again about something like that and he says listen, “At New England,” and this is verbatim the way he said it, he looked me right in the eye and said, “At New England, all we do is win Super Bowls."
Isn’t that a hell of a deal?
The story goes on but I thought this was very interesting.
Urban Meyer & Bill Belichick
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