What Urban Meyer would mean for Ohio and Michigan, both immediately, and in terms of the future.

Submitted by MGoPietrowski on

 

I think we all know it’s inevitable. Not Meyer taking the job, I still have a minimal amount of unrealistic hope that he’ll turn them down, and that I get to laugh at my OSU acquaintances. But they’re going to offer, if they haven’t already. They aren’t going to handle things in a businesslike manner, waiting until after the season wraps up in January, getting together with Fickel for a few chats, and sleeping a few nights on it. No. They are moving now, in season, and reminding us that a metaphorical discipline bomb could be dropped at the 50 of the Horseshoe and this organization’s immediate response would be : “Well, what can we do to keep winning football games at any cost?”

 

Should Urban Meyer take the job, what would it mean for Ohio State and Michigan both in short terms and a few years from now?  Here are my thoughts:

 

IMMEDIATELY:

 

Do you remember when you were a child, and did something very bad? Do you remember a disciplinary figure giving you hell for it? Do you remember the day your father, or older brother, or mentor, or person that everyone in the room loved and respected, stepped in on your behalf and told those in charge of keeping order that “they’d talk to you about it”?

 

If Urban Meyer takes over at OSU, put your popcorn carts away. He’ll intercede for them. With Tressel at the helm the Buckeyes would have suffered the long dick of the law. With anybody else, they’d still get nailed for pulling off and covering up a scandal rivaled only by the past three decades at Miami, but not with Meyer.

 

Just like a pastor, or a youth care worker, he’ll step in, have a short chat with the NCAA board and say exactly this, or something like it, “I’ll talk to them about it.” At this point, everyone in the room will put on their bedroom eyes, and look fondly on Meyer as though he is a returning vet with a purple heart. Someone might even say “You go get em’ TIGER!”

 

Meyer will save Ohio the slap on the wrist. Write this down.

 

THE YEARS AHEAD:

 

This is going to end in one of two ways. Both of them will benefit Michigan.

 

Option 1: This whole thing blows up in their face. We’ve beaten Urban Meyer before. We will continue to beat him. The recruiting momentum is in our favor right now, and with this Michigan team rising to the current occasion, I don’t see it changing any time soon. Even if Les Miles showed up in Columbus with a scarlet hoodie and a headset. And remember, while Meyer is one hell of a coach, he’s a quitter. When the going got tough in Gainesville, he left, for health reasons. I am not going all conspiracy theorist on this. He probably had shit going on. But then he came back, swept in and took his Castle back a la Jay Leno, and when the ratings didn’t go back up, it was all of a sudden “family-time” for the Meyers. He proceeded to bail on Florida once more, and then proceeded to spend considerable amounts of time with his family travel around the country producing editorial segments and calling games for ESPN. Now that college football season is winding down and he will finally have that valuable time with his kids and wife, he is settling in at home, and making plans for vacations and down time with his family talking about and addressing rumors about a return to Columbus as if he were waiting on the phone call. If he takes the job this winter, and we’re looking at an 8-4 buckeye squad in 2013 and 2014, will he stick around? The only thing more entertaining than Braxton Miller’s attempt at passing the ball fourteen yards will be Meyer’s newest excuse. Grandchildren? Erectile Dysfunction? Time to spend a few months responding to fan mail?

 

Option 2:

 

It works. Two years from now, the Buckeyes are looking at 10-3 post bowl game, and as a result are ranked #3 in the preseason polls for the next year. Don’t get me wrong, while I wish we Beat Ohio every year, instead of rolling a squad that can’t put a decent drive together, I’d rather take a big old piss in their chicken noodle soup. I don’t just want Michigan to beat them, I want them to ruin Ohio’s season. And as a result, our path to a National Championship just got a little straighter. We need our #1 rival to be a top ten team. It’s just how it is. Texas-Oklahoma Alabama-Auburn-LSU, Michigan-Ohio State. It’s rare that any one of these teams makes waves in the annual run at the BCS championship when their (or one of their) corresponding rivals don’t have a decent shot at 10-11 wins.

 

Meyer may mean we go from taking the Buckeyes 9 times out of 10 to maybe 6 or 7, but at least with him at the helm, we’ll not only get beat by a clean, talented program, we’ll have the opportunity to do it to them, just after thanksgiving, every year.

 

Either way, bring it on! Whichever one of our rivals (Notre Dame. Lolz) (Michigan State. Perpetual dream state that I’m confident will end soon. Very soon.) (Ohio. A big fat mess right now) wants to try and derail us….I say let them in.

 

In one year, Hoke and Co. have taught this team to play like Michigan again. But they’ve only gotten the job halfway done. Last off season, the fundamentals were laid in place. Last off season, they learned (and are finally showing it) how to play the game right. But his spring and summer, these athletes learn the other half of what Michigan football is: The toughness, the swagger, the Tremendous Tremendousosity. We’re only at the summit, friends.

 

And whether he’s in the media booth, or on the opposite sideline, Urban Meyer won’t change that.

Comments

mgoblue0970

November 21st, 2011 at 8:42 PM ^

This is the kind of post I would expect to see in the off season.  There's no reason to make shit up now man, there is still football to be played.

LSAClassOf2000

November 21st, 2011 at 9:03 PM ^

....I believe Fickell's official tenure as head coach is up at the end of January, if I am not mistaken. If indeed Urban wants the job, and if indeed it was offered to him, he must wait anyway.  We still have business to take care of on Saturday and we still need to send OSU to Detroit for the Pizza Bowl. 

GustaveFerbert

November 21st, 2011 at 9:30 PM ^

It will be announced next week...

 

Perhaps he has not officially been offered, but come on...they have said to him this hypo:  If we offered you the job:  (1) would you take it: (2) how much?..etc...

The public portion of this gets thrown out of the window.  OSU has no worries - especially the trustees....

BS Preacher

November 21st, 2011 at 9:59 PM ^

Meyer benefitted from great timing recruiting-wise while he was at Florida.  Not to take that much away from (okay maybe to take a lot away from him), but Miami and Florida State were pretty much awful while he was at UF.  He obviously pulled in great recruits, but he got lucky with Tebow.  The rest of the SEC was pretty down at that time as well.  Now with Alabama and Auburn firmly on top or on the rise, it is much more difficult to pull in the top SEC recruits every year.  Just look at his last year at Florida and this year.  Brantley is terrible and their defense is full of holes.   

Up here, he's about to come into an easy situation as well.  One year into the growing pain process.  Penn State is about to go into free fall.  Wisconsin has a new qb next year.  He is either very lucky or he knows how to pick his situations. 

I find it interesting that he wouldn't take on Notre Dame, a school where it is more difficult to recruit, and where if he succeeded his legend would be much higher.  Meyer seems to be going for the easier route.  

Eve_of_TheRivalry

November 22nd, 2011 at 9:47 AM ^

Hiring Urban Cryer will definitely hurt Michigan because  he's  in the spotlight thanks to his espn exposure and in part to his success with Florida. Young recruits are going to be drawn to a celebrity and that in turn will effect MI.

hennesbe

November 22nd, 2011 at 10:35 AM ^

Urban Meyer is a media darling.  Is he a better coach that Hoke?  I doubt it.  He recruits players that would have trouble meeting B1G standards even at OSU.  He will surely attract some recruits that may not be considering OSU right now.  According to the records he has had at least 30 of his players arrested for various incidents.  From that part he will fit right in in colonumbus.

Roachgoblue

November 22nd, 2011 at 1:39 PM ^

According to SI's article on criminals playing football last year he would be awesome. They had one of the dirtiest programs in the country. Keep it up UrBAN "I need family time" leyer.

Marlow

November 22nd, 2011 at 4:15 PM ^

Let's see how Meyer recruits in the Midwest. Not as easy getting Gulf Coast kids to come up North as it is to get them to come to Gainesville. I think he'd be a better choice than most other head coaches out there but we're still talking about the state of Ohio, not Florida or Texas.

wolverineluvr

November 22nd, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^

We've already beat Urban Meyer when he was with Florida. Who says we can't beat him again? That's right no one does! So let him get the job, and meet the new and improved Michigan team!

Drbogue

November 24th, 2011 at 3:38 PM ^

Do you really believe that the NCAA will care what Meyer says? These charges are irregardless of the new coach. Remember, these offenses occurred under a person who was widely considered the most squeaky clean coach of big time college football. Bring on Urban Meyer. Hell, I'd have Vince Lombardi coach the buckeyes. Michigan deserves to play and beat the best. Team beats scheme any day of the week. Go Blue and beat OSU.

philhersey

November 25th, 2011 at 9:57 PM ^

by "taking the Buckeyes" you mean up our rears right? We've lost the last 7 straight if you haven't noticed and four of those were Lloyd's... oh yeah, and THEY are not nationally competitive either!!!!