Recent twin UGA commitments from Statesboro High seniors John Knox and Justin Houston continue to be newsworthy. The Statesboro Herald, as linked by Dawgbone.net, relays a telling anecdote from the recruiting trail in which future Bulldog Houston withstood the withering stare, and presumably, the paralyzing pointing of Florida's Urban Meyer.Justin Houston said he looked up to former Statesboro High and Florida defensive end Jeremy Mincey, and Florida coach Urban Meyer visited Houston to personally recruit him.
“I looked up to Mincey a lot, so I kind of wanted to go play at the Swamp,” said Houston. Meyer didn’t mince words about his desire to have Houston play for the Gators. “He told me to look him in the eye and said they wanted me,” Houston said of the meeting with Meyer.
How did Houston react to an eyeball-meld with Meyer--the kind of situation that might have caused a less-poised recruit to soil himself, go blind, or both? Houston said he started laughing. “Meyer responded by saying he was serious,” said Houston when asked how Meyer responded to his laugh. That hiss you hear is Urban Meyer's ego deflating. Pfffffffft.
To put it to you another way, if this recruting trip were a movie, Urban would be Max Fischer and Justin Houston would be Miss Cross.
Meyer: The truth is, neither one of us has the slightest idea where this relationship is going.
Houston: We don't have a relationship.
Dawgnoxious,
Film Critic &
Statesboro Division Bureau Chief
