Urban Meyer to be a Buckeye? (Page 2)

Fickel may be a class act but your new head coach isn't. 

Recruited kids at Florida.  Sat in their kitchens and living rooms and talked about loyalty and the Gator Nation, and how he would be there.

UF gives him a contract extension until 2014 making him the highest paid coach in the SEC and one of the top 5 highest paid coaches in college football.

Then after Tebow leaves, and after his recruited QB looks like he isn't going to make it, and after being pummeled by UF's arch rival, he leaves.

He holds a press conference and says that he is leaving to spend more time with his family.

Less than 1 year later he takes the OSU job.  The kids he recruited, and lied to, can't leave UF for another school without lossing a year of eligibility. 

Then in an interview last night he talks about his daughter having him sign a contract for his family, and how he is going to put them first and not in front of coaching.  Wait I thought that's why he stopped coaching to be with his family.

The guy is a total bum.

The guy is a hell of a coach but watching him try to explain his way out of his previous statements at his press conference was just comical. He must have used the word "reflect" a dozen times.

At least until he retires to spend more time with his pet ferret.

Meyer won at UF because he had Tebow and a great defensive coordinator.  Tebow's gone, and guess where that def. coordinator is now?  That's right, that wonderful school up north, where he turned around one of the worst defenses in the country last year to something pretty respectable this year, all with the same players.

Meyer is an ok coach, but he's not as great as everyone says or thinks.  He's not just going to walk into Buckeye land and magically bring you championships.

As for the one sided rivalry comment, you must either not know that Michigan leads the series, or you forgot about the Cooper years where UM went on a 10-2 run during the 90s.

No need to mention the game itself.  UM did all the talking it needed to on the field.  Just to think, if Hoke can win 10 games with personnel that don't fit into his system (or with players that RichRod didn't consider to be very good, especially on defense), what will he do when he gets his players into the system?  The future is looking pretty bright from my viewpoint.

Now I already can't wait for next year.

It's nothing about him going where his heart is. (Of course he said mutliple times in press conferences that the UF job was his dream job)  I'm commenting on his personal character.  He's a liar and a scum bag.  Again, he used his children as a cloak to justify his leaving UF.  After recruiting kids, after talking about leaving and then returning, after telling recruits that he wasn't leaving and would be there. After saying what he did. 

The sad thing is that the kids that he recruited at UF, the kids he promissed he would be there as their coach if they went to UF, kids that were recruited by other top level schools, are now stuck, unless they want to lose a year of eligibility by sitting out a year and transferring.  But Urban, gets to go where ever he wants.

Just be ready when things start to go down hill, don't be surprised when he suffers more "health issues" and "family issues" and he jumps ship.  My prediction, you've got 5 years tops with him.

GO BUCKEYES! At least, for today.

Welcome to big time football kids.

Yup.  Perhaps its time to change.  Perhaps some NCAA rule changes that impact the coaches elligibility to coach at an NCAA institution.  Something like if a team incurrs NCAA sanctions the coach cannot coach at another institution until the expiration of the sanctions.  If he stays at the school that got the sanctions, fine, no problem.  But no jumping ship while it goes down because of your violations.

Or this one, if you voluntarily leave an institution that you under contract with, you cannot coach at another NCAA insitution until your last recruiting class graduates.

Like it or not so is the Florida job...