Interesting behind-the-scenes look at the dumpster fire in Columbus and the possibility of Urban Meyer taking either the OSU or PSU job at the end of this season.
http://sportsrappup.com/sections/stories/11-10-07/The_Messy_Pursuit_Of_U...
Wow, an OSU slanted, crappy
Did you even click the link?
Did you even click the link? The article portrays Ohio State as a program in a state of disarray, and seems to strengthen the theory that PSU, not OSU, is Meyer's likely destination.
Who needs facts when you can
Who needs facts when you can say what you think people want to hear and get t3h upvoats?
Twenty-two Michigan Wolverines
put on the gloves of gray.
And as Revelli played The Victors,
they laid Woody Hayes away.
Yeah
I did, and I read this....
However, a well-placed source who asked not to be named recently told SportsRappUp.com that Meyer already is entertaining ideas of returning to coaching and that Ohio State is near or at the top of his wish list.
Sincerely,
Cpt. Ass-Hat
In his defense, he is Cpt.
In his defense, he is Cpt. Ass-Hat, apparently.
This article is for
This article is for illiterates.
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Ick.
Someone's sure defensive about the reviews this link is getting so far. I guess you'll have to "flamebait" me too.
FTR Ramzy of 11W praises the piece in the comments.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
Of course Ramzy
Of course Ramzy praises the piece, an OSU slappie getting behind the idea of Meyer coaching OSU. Shocking.
HAIL TO THE VICTORS VALIANT, HAIL TO THE CONQUERING HEROES!
geesh
have you seen urbans arrest record at florida....he can come to ohio for all i care
"The team..The team...The team"
Informative...
In Urban Meyer's first major courtship he chose Florida over ND because his family did not want him to have to recruit nationally. OSU fits that criteria as well but with their impending sanctions it seems unlikely Meyer would take the job in 2012. PSU makes some sense, particularly if JoePa gives him his blessing, and there is a solid recruiting base that would allow Meyer to not have to stray too far from home.
The best parts(and most accurate) of this article are the ones detailing how fractured OSU is on every level, starting with the administration, all the way down to coaches and players. It is going to be interesting to see what their 2012 recruiting class is going to look like.
"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron
revisionism
In Urban Meyer's first major courtship he chose Florida over ND because his family did not want him to have to recruit nationally.
This is absolutely not the way I recall how this went. My understanding at the time was he wanted a return at ND to the relatively lax admission standards Lou Holtz enjoyed...and tightened up after Lou left...when they refused he went to Florida.
Major revisionism alert
That was part of it
But ND still pulls in Top10 talent every year even with their supposedly higher admission standards. If you read any of the articles about Meyer's last year in Florida and subsequent departure you really get the feeling he is totally pussy whipped.
"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron
That may be true now but I'm
That may be true now but I'm pretty sure it wasn't his reasoning back then. They do get top talent but apparently he didn't think it would be good enough for him with the exceptions. The number six is correct as per another poster here - that's how many Holtz was getting.
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Caring about his wife and family, what a terrible trait in a college coach.......
That's What I Heard as Well
FWIW, total hearsay, but I have a good friend who who has multiple legacies at ND and whose family knows a lot of boosters. He told me that Meyer wanted 6 players each year he could override with admissions, and at the time ND was only willing to give him 1, so that's why he didn't take the job. Of course, with guys like Blanton it's pretty obvious they're still making exceptions, but Meyer really wanted to stretch that. It'll be interesting to see if they're making exceptions with Kelly now that they're more desperate for wins.
Too bad for Sparty:
"In Urban Meyer's first major courtship he chose Florida over ND because his family did not want him to have to recruit nationally."
MSU is out then.
"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan." - Brady Hoke
Michigan jersey sales
He would have to recruit nationally if coached at Ohio State cause we know Hoke owns Ohio
Bring it, urban. I ain't
Bring it, urban. I ain't scurred
You will be... you will be.
Don't laugh, but there is a
Don't laugh, but there is a possibility that Ohio will reemerge with more law and order type leadership when slimy Gene Smith is sent packing. Urban Meyer and his prolific track record of recruiting and coddling non-law abiding players at Florida might not be the best fit.
This is still the school of Woody Hayes, a stickler for doing things the right way in recruiting. Somewhere there has to be a sane element with influence who demand it becomes that again?
Yes, I am sober if you were wondering.
"because character wins in life and character wins on the football field....." 1-11-11
Yeah
Yeah, cause Woody Hayes was such a model of moral rectitude
No no no, that whole ordeal
No no no, that whole ordeal was the PLAYER's fault. It wasn't Hayes's fault he was put in that situation! What else could he do? He was looking out for the best interests of his team!
Alternatively...
Hayes was calling the next play with his fist and be damned if someone didn't run into it.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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What amazes me..
is that the announcers never figured out what started the brawl. They never seemed to pursue it beyond one replay angle. The initial camera angle clearly shows Hayes punching Bauman but the angle they use for the replay is behind Bauman so you can't see the punch. I can't believe with a brawl that size they wouldn't have been dissecting the replay from every angle.
His temper was a huge
His temper was a huge character flaw, but Woody was a respectable guy and a man of great personal integrity (he gave us Bo, after all). The irony is that he was the antithesis of Tressel in almost every way: whereas Tressel is a phony, politician-like slimeball, Woody was an expressive, no-nonsense teacher. He loved the game, he loved his players, he loved coaching, and he didn't care about money. What happened under Tressel would never have happened under Woody.
Don't laugh, but there is a
Don't laugh, but there is a possibility that Ohio will reemerge with more law and order type leadership when slimy Gene Smith is sent packing. Urban Meyer and his prolific track record of recruiting and coddling non-law abiding players at Florida might not be the best fit.
This is still the school of Woody Hayes, a stickler for doing things the right way in recruiting. Somewhere there has to be a sane element with influence who demand it becomes that again?
Yes, I am sober if you were wondering.
"because character wins in life and character wins on the football field....." 1-11-11
Hoke
I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start.
"That broke a lot of Irish hearts. Now isn't that too bad?" - Bo
Can we kill this meme please?
Can we kill this meme please?
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I think Hoke has changed the tide on the rivalry. Hell people in Ohio are starting to believe him. Never in a million years I would have thought that. Selling Michigan jerseys is a good start.
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Other than the hilarious minor drug issues, I was always under the impression that Meyer's Florida teams were pretty clean from a booster and recruiting standpoint.
Urban will pass on OSU because
He still needs to chill for some more time and he is waiting for the USC job. Kiffin is a place holder. USC will make it work for Meyer.
Kiffin
With everything that is coming out about Kiffin's tenure at Tennessee, I wonder if a show cause is in order. The bigger question, would the NCAA give him a show cause with him being at USC now? IMO, the corruption wasn't at Tennessee before Kiffin and doesn't appear to be their now with Dooley. Even though the show cause would effect USC it is their fault for hiring the sleaze.
Over at 11W they mostly seem
Over at 11W they mostly seem to think they can get any coach they want. I can't see Meyer wanting to walk into that mess. Their next coach is probably going to be someone like Tim Beckman. If OSU wants to rebuild that fence around Ohio Toledo is a good place to start.
Eating is murder.
Saban will never have a heart
Saban will never have a heart attack because he is the devil and exempt from such mortal denouement.
Heart attack?
Don't you have to have a heart?
All top programs seem to start with thinking they can get anyone
For example Michigan. Or how about ND with Gary Barnett and Urban Meyer. The problem is a coach like Urban Meyer or Jon Gruden can basically go wherever they want. So it is not a slame dunk by any means.
Go Blue!
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My uncle runs an OSU website and he all of his readers fully believe that Urban Meyer is going to be the next HC at tsio. They also believe that if they dont get him then they get either Chrs Pederson, Gary Patterson, Jon Gruden, or Dan Mullen citing that Ohio will throw too much money at them to turn it down.
"I tried to but a pencil in the light socket but it was too wide and didn't fit so I used a paperclip."-Terrelle Pryor, Future Rhodes Scholar
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Oh, please hire Gruden, PLEASE
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch"
WARNING: Make sure your smart
WARNING: Make sure your smart phone doesn't have the ap up when you hand it to your 3 year old
Hah
That explains the blank posts
??
Pedo bear?
This sounds familiar. If they
This sounds familiar. If they were smart Ohio fans would wait until the end of the season to judge Fickell. Their treatment of him would make it hard for anyone to want to coach there.
Here's hoping for a bright future. This team does try hard and I will continue to support them.
Ha, ha, ha
What he said:
Dantonio has told a source close to SRU that he would at least listen to any overtures from Ohio State.
What he meant:
"I would abandon my 'beloved Spartans' in a heartbeat to go to Columbus even if the school is on five-year probation."
Mark Dantonio
The Big 10's very own Lane Kiffin
That's actually what I'm
That's actually what I'm hoping happens, and it doesn't seem as impossible as MSU or OSU fans seem to think. Gee and Smith have shown themselves to be pretty incompetent when it comes to handling the football program, I wouldn't put bungling a coaching search past them.
Dantonio is a perfect fit...
Good resume including success against (and obvious dislike for) UM.
Strong ties to OSU.
Knows the Big Ten.
No way Meyer takes the job and I wouldn't be surprised if Dantonio lobbies for it behind the scenes.
He's a massive douche.
I've heard all of the reasons why it'll never happen... I still put the chances of him being in Cbus by the new year at better than 50/50.
Gene Smith
No way Gene Smith is part of the next coaching search. His replacement may well want to clean house, as he should. That would not bode well for Dantonio or any other fruits of the Tressel coaching tree.
Eating is murder.
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Barry Melrose is the only one I can think of who even tried it, and obviously he was an epic fail. Then on the player side there's Tiki Barber... yet another fail
"All I've had today is, like, six gummy bears and some scotch"
Wow, an OSU slanted, crappy website with well placed sources (lol) telling me that Urban Meyer has interest in the OSU job....no thanks
Sincerely,
Cpt. Ass-Hat