Urban Meyer Accepts Ohio State Job

[ZoneBlitz]

Sidenote: Urban Meyer & Bob Davie were both real good on TV.

 

[nflman2033]

this makes me happy

 

[ralaw]

Urban Meyer: No Buckeyes deal

Sources have told WKMG-TV in Orlando that ESPN college football analyst and former Florida Gators head coach Urban Meyer has agreed in principle to become the next head coach of Ohio State and will be introduced in the coming days. According to WKMG's sources, Meyer has agreed to a seven-year, $40 million deal.


Contacted Wednesday by ESPN, Meyer denied that he had a deal with Ohio State, issuing this statement: "I have not been offered any job nor is their a deal in place. I plan on spending Thanksgiving with my family and will not comment on this any further."


WKMG's sources said Mickey Marotti, strength coach at Florida, would join Meyer and become Ohio State's director of football operations and that Luke Fickell, interim head coach at Ohio State, would stay on as an assistant head coach.


On Saturday, ESPN.com reported through sources that Ohio State had talked to Meyer about becoming the school's next head coach and that there was strong interest on both sides.


On Monday, to the Gainesville Sun, Meyer, who left his job as head coach at Florida after the 2010 season, in part because of family and health concerns, talked about the possibilities of returning to coaching.


"The concerns are still there," Meyer told the Gainesville Sun. "No. 1: My health. No. 2: My family. No. 3: The state of college football. I've done some research into the second one. I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.


"I'm in a good place right now mentally and physically. So if something happens with Ohio State, I'll have a decision to make. But there has been no interview. There has been no offer to make a decision about.


"If there is a decision to be made concerning Ohio State, there will be a lot that will go into it. But right now, there is no decision to be made.


"I love football. It's what I am. I miss it."

http://espn.go.com/college-football...r-denies-report-new-ohio-state-buckeyes-coach

Anyways, Braxton Miller has to be hyped about Meyer coming in.

 

[Cody]

Yes, I hope we get him.

I think he could really improve Braxton Miller and help him become a better QB.

Any chance Fickell gets a job elsewhere as a Coordinator or HC?

 

[Cody]

Warren Sapp on twitter

Perfect Fit! RT @SteveOReilly WOW, Urban Meyer to Ohio State for 7 years 40 Million!!

 

[webbi]

OSU upgraded coaches by getting rid of tressell..they had it planned all along lol

 

[FirstTimer]

Urban Liar.

 

[FirstTimer]

What a perfect hire for a school about to go under NCAA sanctions. A guy that had all sorts of character issues at Florida.

Perfect.

:yao:

 

[ralaw]

What a perfect hire for a school about to go under NCAA sanctions. A guy that had all sorts of character issues at Florida.

Perfect.

:yao:

In order to win and have an elite program (winning championships) you are going to have some issues in the program...some shady. As long as those issues aren't too corrupt, you stay ahead of them and you win games it doesn't matter. People holding their nose up to “character” questions in the programs generally are fans of average programs.

 

[FirstTimer]

In order to win and have an elite program (winning championships) you are going to have some issues in the program...some shady. As long as those issues aren't too corrupt, you stay ahead of them and you win games it doesn't matter. People holding their nose up to “character” questions in the programs generally are fans of average programs.

:jonesy:

He had 26 players arrested during his tenure there. Some for using the credit card of a dead woman.

That's starting to go beyond "character issues" of guys getting busted of underage drinking etc.

:yao:

 

[ralaw]

:jonesy:

He had 26 players arrested during his tenure there. Some for using the credit card of a dead woman.

That's starting to go beyond "character issues" of guys getting busted of underage drinking etc.

:yao:

I was just using your words, but I guess you were referencing Meyer himself.

Meh, either way my comments still remain true. I don't blame the coach for every bad move or bad decision players make on their own time. In the end Meyer is a good coach, gets results and will win as he's always done. College football is about winning games and making money not molding men of high character.

 

[FirstTimer]

I was just using your words, but I guess you were referencing Meyer himself.

Of course I am.

Meh, either way my comments still remain true. I don't blame the coach for every bad move or bad decision players make on their own time. In the end Meyer is a good coach, gets results and will win as he's always done. College football is about winning games and making money not molding men of high character.

:smh:

Ralaw. He wasn't even suspending some/most of these guys. He had a LB try and blind an opposing player on the field and suspended him for one half of football?

Come on.

I'm not acting like I want some ":Leave it to Beaver" utopia but Meyer is a fucking scumbag.

 

[ralaw]

I'm not acting like I want some ":Leave it to Beaver" utopia but Meyer is a fucking scumbag that wins.

Correction

 

[Sportsbuck]

What a perfect hire for a school about to go under NCAA sanctions. A guy that had all sorts of character issues at Florida.

Perfect.

:yao:

He had issues with his players concerning the law... no NCAA issues to speak of for his program nor for him.

Meyer is a scumbag, there's no denying that. But so is every other coach in CFB. It's a profession of dishonest men doing dishonest things to try and win football games.

 

[FirstTimer]

He had issues with his players concerning the law... no NCAA issues to speak of for his program nor for him.

Oh thank God!

 

[NAHSTE]

Meyer is a scumbag, there's no denying that. But so is every other coach in CFB.

Whoa, first of all, that isn't close to being true, and second of all, even if it were true, Meyer would still be among the MOST scummy. If that's the type of man you want to represent your program, by all means.

 

[ralaw]

Its interesting that people on this forum (FT and NAHSTE) keep saying Meyer is a scumbag, yet the image of him in the media is totally opposite of that. I don't hear anything of him being shady...just that he wins games. If I was a fan of a major college football program I'd love to have Meyer as the coach, because I know he's going to bring top talent in and will be successful

I'm not denying he isn't shady, but the majority of top college football coaches at the elite programs have their fair share of dirt.

 

[Sharkweather]

yet the image of him in the media is totally opposite of that. I don't hear anything of him being shady...just that he wins games.

Job well done Gainesville media.

 

[ralaw]

Job well done Gainesville media.

Seeing that now most Florida fans and Gainesville people feel betrayed and butthurt I'd expect them to release some information now, No?
A long time ago FT posted a laundry list of arrest and off the field issues, but no media scource ever seems to run with these stories.

 

[NAHSTE]

Its interesting that people on this forum (FT and NAHSTE) keep saying Meyer is a scumbag, yet the image of him in the media is totally opposite of that. I don't hear anything of him being shady...just that he wins games. If I was a fan of a major college football program I'd love to have Meyer as the coach, because I know he's going to bring top talent in and will be successful

I'm not denying he isn't shady, but the majority of top college football coaches at the elite programs have their fair share of dirt.

We aren't talking about "shadiness" here. We are talking about a human being with little, if any, moral scruples.

Let's review some of Urban's finer moments at UF:

- flagged Patrick Peterson's SAT score to the clearinghouse, out of spite for Peterson choosing LSU over Florida. Peterson is eventually cleared, but not until he missed all of fall practice.
- reinstated Marcus Thomas from a drug-related suspension (his third such suspension) the Friday before the 2006 LSU game, kicks him off the team two weeks later.
- suspended a player caught on camera attempting to physically maim an opposing player for one quarter. After much outrage, he agrees to extend the punishment by a whole other quarter.
- Total number of players arrested during Florida tenure: 30
- Total number of players kicked off of Florida's team in that span: 2 (Marcus Thomas being one, the other being the guy who stole a teammate's girlfriend's credit card THE SAME DAY SHE DIED and began running up charges.)

This is the same guy who refused to kick Cam Newton off the team after felony theft and three counts of academic cheating, refused to kick Chris Rainey off the team after threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend, etc. After the Rainey incident, all he had to say was: "It's people making stupid mistakes, that's something we gotta correct."

So yeah.