GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida coach Urban Meyer said after Friday's morning practice that he came away pleased with a conference call he recently participated in, involving NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, Alabama coach Nick Saban, Oklahoma's Bobby Stoops, Ohio State's Jim Tressel, Mack Brown of Texas and several agents plus NFLPA representatives.  The conversation was set up to discuss a growing problem with agents that escalated this summer with several star players around the country involved. Florida's Maurkice Pouncey has been accused of taking $100,000 from an agent while still in college, which the Pittsburgh Steelers' 2010 first-round pick denies.  "I loved it,'' Meyer said of the conference call. "I loved the fact that you have everybody involved and everybody wanting to do right. There were actually some agents on the phone and NFLPA on the phone, there was the commissioner and some college football coaches. And it was about as positive as you can get because everybody wants to do right. The cool thing is that you get stereotyped, the agents, the coaches, the players. At the end of the day obviously there are people who don't want to do right but the majority I would say want to do it right.''  Meyer didn't give specific details about what changes coaches want.  "I think, you don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure this thing out now, I mean you want to stop some kind of unethical, illegal activity,'' he said. "How do you do it, you punish them. And the players get punished and you want to stop the other side too because one (side) is going to get punished and deservedly so. And then the other side (agents need to) get punished. If there's no threat, it's almost like in recruiting, if there's no threat of a punishment go have at it. I mean there are certain people with integrity who do it the right way anyways. But a good chunk of them won't, because if there's no punishment have at it.  "So I think there's two . . . in recruiting there are some things going on too and then also this agents relations. So there are a lot of positives going around for the good of college football. We can't lose college football. We just can't lose college football.''  -- David Jones, Florida Today  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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