Urban Meyer Thread -- Wednesday, 23 Nov
Urban Meyer quoted by ESPN 12/23:
I have not been offered any job nor is there a deal in place. I plan on spending Thanksgiving with my family and will not comment on this any further.
Of course, this is Urban's secret code language for "I've called up Hernia Movers and they'll be at my front door on Monday."
Yet Central Ohio News 10tv.com confirms Meyer has accepted job: http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7272658/urban-meyer-deni…
Mod Edit: We're going to do the thread consolidation thing again. This is your Urban Meyer thread for today. The only additional threads allowed are seriously new news. If a reliable news source (not Joe Schaad, Deadspin, or Sports by Brooks) says there will be an official announcement, then create a new thread. [zl]
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:39 AM ^
yep, its happening
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:40 AM ^
never final until Kirk Herbstreit says it is...
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:44 AM ^
Do you think that he'll incorrectly report that it's a done deal that there is a package deal for Meyer to be the Head Coach with Kirk Herbstreit as his quarterback coach?
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:07 AM ^
And Chris Spielman as his defensive coordinator.
What's holding up the deal right now is that ESPN won't release them from their contracts unless OSU agrees to take Pam Ward too.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:27 AM ^
is likely lobbying very hard to be taken along as the RB coach.
And Urban Meyer keeps saying, "Yeah, but you're just Robert Smith."
November 23rd, 2011 at 10:59 AM ^
FWD: ... ([email protected] - Visit YarkAuto.com) BREAKING: Sources reporting former Univ. of FL coach Urban Meyer agrees to coach OSU football. http://bit.l
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<br>Got this from my sister outta Toledo....
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:00 AM ^
For all you guys calling Meyer dirty you do realize who his best recruiter was while at Florida?
Greg Mattison.
I don't think Mattison was involved in any underhanded stuff so I give Meyer the benefit of the doubt and you may want to slow your roll on bombing Urban.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:05 AM ^
I like Meyer> JT
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:16 AM ^
with the countless, pointless comments once you reach 100, right?
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:06 PM ^
thanks for letting me post another comment. I am replying a pointless comment.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:04 AM ^
brought up with Herbie, and also covered on the local cbus sports station a couple times yesterday: will Urban's offense work a) at OSU and b) in the B1G?
I say, bring it on, so we can beat it in The Game. It'll at least be more fun to watch than Tresselball or Walrusball.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:11 AM ^
I like herbie to stay college game day
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:04 AM ^
Sigh...i miss the good old days on MGoblog when all we used to talk about was Penn State....
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:07 AM ^
Never too late
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 AM ^
wow your F5 key have any paint left on it? This is like your 6th post in this thread, all 4 word replies to someone that contributes nothing to the conversation.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:08 PM ^
what's wrong with me posting? mind ur own business pls.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:09 AM ^
Waaaaiiiitttt he better not be announcing our game on sat!!!! He'll make some big production and spielman will be lapping at his shoes.....Aaaarrrrrrgggghhh!!!
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:20 AM ^
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:14 AM ^
so he will be announcing the Michigan Ohio game as planned then?
/s
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:17 AM ^
will Urban offer up to Mattison to come be his DC?!!?! Could you imagine what that would do to this rivalry!?!!
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 AM ^
Greg Mattison moved to Ann Arbor for family considerations. Coaching at U-M is the last job he will ever have.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:17 AM ^
Hoke is gonna own Ohio for the next ten years. I dont care who the next coach is.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:19 AM ^
To me... Urban sounds like a man trying to convince himself of something he's not sure he can accomplish...
"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."
It's a big difference to talk about what other people do and change habits he himself has already struggled with.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:23 AM ^
The lingering question, of course, is if Meyer changes his behavior to protect his family and his health...will he be as good a coach?
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:23 AM ^
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:30 AM ^
Brady Hoke needs to make sure where Kalis and all the other recruits being courted by tOSU stand. We don't need people jumping ship because of this. Thoughts on the subject?
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 AM ^
this happens. It will provide me with the convenience of concentrating nearly all my CFB hate (save for Satan, Bielema and a few others) in a single program. Most hated team + most hated coach = orgasmic joy when we beat those bastards.
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:55 AM ^
http://twitter.com/BryanDFischer/statuses/139385608488497152
"RT @TheBigLead: Columbus Dispatch: Meyer to OSU done deal RT @AlbertBreer: Yess! bit.ly/t1PvKt"
The stupid thing is his "health problems" excuse, if you didn't want to coach Florida because Tebow was gone and your teams were average, then say so. But don't try to fool people by claiming it was some sort of a "health issue".
I wonder what happens to Bollman.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:02 PM ^
Pretty sure he's been hired. I mean, why else would they pull him from The Game?
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:20 PM ^
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:44 PM ^
Not a good move for Urban, although I welcome him and what he brings to the B10.
Urban is moving from a conference geared towards championships (oversigning, 8 game conference schedule, huge divide between top tier and all else) to a conference that seems largely unconcerned with its member national prominence and final rankings. This does not bode well for an apparently high-strung, pressure-averse head coach of a program that will be demanding National Championships.
Urban Meyer is not going to escape a nine game conference season and a conference championship game with one very often, and I would not be surprised to see Florida make its way back to the NC before OSU makes it back.
November 23rd, 2011 at 1:55 PM ^
Please edit the thread title to something like "Per (insert mod name here): Official Urban Meyer Thread."
The way it stands now is confusing and what I was objecting to during the PSU official threads: any user can title a thread "Official ___________ Thread" and it is hard to know if it is a mod or not b/c you guys use screen names just like any other user.
Your current system of "official threads" needs a lot of tinkering as it leads to deleted threads, point reductions, and banhammers with users ignorant as to why.
The way you do it now leads people to click on every single related thread to wade through way too many posts and spend way too much time reading.
To wit: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/columbus-dispatch-cofirms-meyer-coach
...with 80+ replies, thread started two hours after you say "this is official thread."